Stop Terrorists - Insist on Plane Barefootedness?

Why do I find this so significant in understanding why Homeland Defense is the worst concoction of bureaucracy that has ever been created.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's new order that all airline passengers put their shoes through X-ray machines won't help screeners find a liquid or gel that can be used as a bomb.

The machines are unable to detect explosives, according to a Homeland Security report on aviation screening recently obtained by The Associated Press.

The Transportation Security Administration ordered the shoe-scanning requirement as it fine-tunes new security procedures.