Security Theater: the Teva Menace

A reader based in Asia writes, via mobile phone:

Thought you might appreciate this. just flew back from dc to beijing with my 2 4yr old twin girls. TSA made them remove their Tevas (see pic, hard 2c where a bomb or weapons might go); meanwhile I was playing single Dad, had lots going and was holding up the line

Stupidity is one thing that is not in deficit in certain quarters of DC.
 

He asked me not to use his name, so he doesn't "get on a list."

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/07/security-theater-the-teva-menace/60590/