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True, and consistency can also give the bad guys more ideas on how to get thru our security. Some of that is necessary, even tho irritating. I could twist off on the politics also supported here, but I'll repress myself.The only thing consistent about TSA is that there is no consistency. There is a reason for this. Consistency often leads complacency.
Coming back to the US, international security agents agree to screen per US TSA standards, more or less. We don't want to pay for our own TSA agents in Exuma to do the screening for example, nor in Cozumel. More mistakes & abuse are possible there, tho - and it's up to the traveler to try preventative actions.
Eh, most of the time that lighters were prohibited, I simple stuffed them down in my computer & photo tools in my backpack - missed every time. And then there is the time the TSA agent went all thru my backpack, looking for a pocket knife that he'd thot he'd seen on X-ray - indeed one that I'd lost on my last trip. He even opened my waterproof cigarette case...
He finally gave up and let me board. I later found the lost pocket knife...
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