This reminds me of the shoe bummer and the guy with explosive underwear. They were patsies used to get gt enforced contracts for every airport to install TSA and their naked body radiation machines. That fraudulent contract made hundreds of millions for Dick Cheney and friends.
Lol, I think I went through a few of those in Ronald Reagan National Airport in DC! I think some cities really do need them though, like the aforementioned Washington DC and NYC.
In DC, security is extremely tight! Did you know that you get your picture taken at the parking lot you parked your car at? That's so if anything happens, they would know who was in the area at the time of the incident.