Really, the lack of effectiveness hasn't really stopped governments from implementing ridiculous security theater anyway.

Let's see, what's another transportation system that hundreds of thousands of people use daily that has security that is impractical and antagonizes the public? But people are just learning to take it in a fit of learned helplessness.

It's more probable that they're not wanting to implement the "security" because they can't afford it right now. Not antagonizing the public or inconveniencing people is almost surely NOT the reason they're not starting it up at this point.

/rant

"Some of our officers aren't respected," TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said.

I think she misspoke. "Some" should be "None" It's an easy mistake, and I wouldn't expect someone working minimum wage (even as a director) would know the difference

Those guys should put up pictures of eyes next to the stalls and in front of the money trays.

There was an interesting article a while back where people were put on an honor system of some sort, but two separate tables were set up, one with a picture of eyes, and another without. People were more truthful at the table with the eyes because they were subconsciously affected by even an image of eyes look at them.

As a degree holder in Psychology, which has come in very helpful over the years (and by helpful, I mean, "not helpful in finding employment"), I'll add my $0.02:

About the dog with the electrified floor, I think there were several variations on the experiment (which would never be allowed today), but essentially, the dog would be in a pen with an electrified floor where the walls were too high for it to jump out. After awhile, the dog would stop resisting, and simply allow itself to be electrocuted, even after one of the walls was lowered to a level in which it could jump out, and continue to allow itself to be electrocuted. "Conditioned Helplessness" is also a symptom with other animals including humans in the form of battered wives who don't leave their husbands, etc.

With the kitten experiment, it was more of a physiological phenomenon, as the vertical lines lining the walls and lack of horizontal lines as their vision was developing caused the kittens' brains to not register horizontal lines at all, so they would bump into things such as tables and what not that were horizontal (parallel to the floor) because they could not see it.

Wow, that wasn't interesting at all, I'll just go back to pondering my lack of gainful employment now.