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I wonder what TSA is going to do now. The public won't stand for anal-searches each time they are going to fly, but on the other hand they would have to appear to be doing something.

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"The public won't stand for anal-searches ..."

Well, you certainly can't expect to do them sitting down!

"Now slide your pants down and sit on that gloved hand."

Well yes, you can.

They don't because this was not done on an aircraft. If this had occurred on an aircraft then they might have tried to do something about it, but I doubt there'll be any response.

In addition this was not done against a US target.

True, for now. I can't stand security theater but basically we're quite well off insofar as we have the luxury to complain about it with a relatively low expectation of anything bad happening (as in being blown up, rather than annoyed by officious and undereducated security staff). As a sometime screenwriter I often come up with ideas which seem so obvious that I wonder why terrorists don't employ them, but I'd rather not repeat them here.

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