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In the New York Post a former TSA screener claims airport security is too lax. For instance, one undercover agent sneaked through Newark Airport's security with an IED. Also, it turns out pat-downs done with the back of the hand aren't good enough.
Just what we need. As if airport security weren't annoying enough, this guy wants to make it tougher. As I've said before, let's have two security systems--one with all the bells and whistles, one basic and quick. I'll take the second for the convenience and for what I presume will be lower prices since they won't have to pay for all those fancy machines and government employees. And if anyone tries anything fishy on the plane, we'll be ready.
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Blog security here has gone for option 2.
Hmm. I'm suspicious about anon 2.
The whole TSA response to 9/11 will go down in history as a textbook example of how badly government handles issues that have no easy answers - in other words doing something just to look like they are doing something.
9/11 was a horrible tragedy. But it was essentially unavoidable. With all the notice in the world, the government could not have instituted safeguards like TSA before the attack happened. the public jst would not have stood for it, and on top of that, the argument that these "precautions" are easily circumvented by someone intent on taking down planes would have been convincing.
Look at the debacle now with pocket knives. The fact is, you can't commandeer a plane with a pocket knife - or at least you can't anymore, now that it is common knowledge that our enemies will use suicide methods. Honestly, you couldn't commandeer a plane with box cutters or even a pistol today, because passengers and crew would overwhelm the terrorists believing that to give uo the plane was to die.
So now the TSA has finally (11 years later) conceded they confiscated all those pocket knives, nail clippers and eyeglass screwdrivers for now damn reason, a complete waste of time, effort and money (lits of money). How long till they stop taking my shampoo at the ticket gate?
And I maintain that doing something just to appear to be doing something is worse than doing nothing. The TSA and the federal gov't are the object of unending ridicule and disregard. Passing laws that none believe in, and which people regularly ignore or avoid, damages the respect for government, is expensive waste, and probably is counterproductive in most instances (see drug wars, unenforceable immigration policies, laws on the disposal of light bulbs, etc.).
I thought it was interesting that the flight attendants union came out so strongly against the TSA allowing pocket knives then I realized it has little to do with terrorism. With airline travel become worse, more crowded and generally miserable with dumbass hectoring (and easily evaded) rules about turning off electronics, they want their increasingly frustrated trapped passengers to be completely disarmed.
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