Image Credit: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Contributor / Getty 
Early Tuesday morning it was announced that airline travelers will no longer be required to remove their shoes while going through airport security, although the relaxing of this regulation is a phased approach, being enacted at only a handful of airports to begin with. Currently it is not clear if a new, additional shoe scan is being conducted at those locations in lieu of shoe removal.
The no-shoes-off change at airport security appears to be a phased approach, sources said, at airports including Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati, Portland, Philadelphia. @CBSNews correspondents at Los Angeles and New York City's LaGuardia airports reported tonight that…
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 8, 2025
In March it was reported that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was looking at removing the shoe removal requirement, but the humiliation ritual slave training would remain, as passengers would now be directed to undergo foot scanning with their shoes on.
“Homeland Security is working on high-definition advanced imaging technology shoe scanners that may relieve us from removing our shoes one day,” Secret NYC said in March.
While the TSA currently scans the entire bodies of passengers, an additional scan of their feet will enable their shoes to stay on, according to the report from March.
“The technology in the shoe scanner is being developed alongside the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the same laboratory behind the holographic millimeter wave scanning technology currently used in airports worldwide,” Secret NYC said in March. “The shoe scanners will include similar but enhanced technology with millimeter waves that will pass through shoe soles when passengers step onto the scanner to obtain data sent for review through a detection algorithm. The current prototype scans in a matter of two seconds and processes the image in five seconds.”
Infowars reported in 2023 that the TSA is working to set up the ‘airport of the future’ with new high tech surveillance machines.
The TSA, part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had required travelers remove their shoes since 2006 (various airports required it since 2001) after to Richard Reid, a British man who became known as the ‘Shoe Bomber’ allegedly tried to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoe in December 2001.
Reportedly, Osama bin Laden believed that the shoe bomber Richard Reid would bring down the aviation industry:
Saajid Muhammad Badat, an admitted al Qaeda operative, testified via a prerecorded videotape about his private, one-on-one audience with the terror kingpin in Afghanistan just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Badat, a 33-year-old Briton, said that Bin Laden explained “the justification” for the planned shoe bomb attacks.
“He said that the American economy is like a chain. If you break one link of the chain, the whole economy will be brought down.
“So after the Sept. 11 attacks, this operation will ruin the aviation industry, and – in turn – the whole [American] economy will come down,” bin Laden said, according to Badat.
Fellow Briton Richard Reid, also convicted of the shoe bombing plot, was working with Badat and both men were supposed to bring down planes on the same day in December 2001, but the witness said he backed out at the last moment.
In 2011 Kurt Nimmo wrote an article on Infowars about the psychological fear operation known as false flag terrorism:
Any possible chemical or biological threat posed by a terror group that has a history of deploying mentally deficient terrorists like Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abulutallab is a remote possibility at best.
While the fear instilled by false flag terrorism justified the reduction of liberties post-9/11, Alex Jones railed against the slave system training being set up in its wake. Shoe removal at airports were characterized by him in 2009 as a humiliation ritual of the police state.
9/11 itself was a verifiable false flag attack carried out to advance a number of various agendas.
