As much as I might want to be sympathetic to this claim (I fly a lot and am wary of the "security theater" at American airports), it ought not to be veryconvincing as a logical proposition.
If you look at a show like Survivor for example, what makes the game work is the fact that the way to win is not by eliminating other people, but by convincing those people you eliminated to give you the money, which is very complicated.