And, as usual, Matt Drudge has it right. The terrorists have won, a battle at least. They’ve made traveling in the West really uncomfortable, slow, and are damaging our economy because of it.
But… they couldn’t have done it without our government’s help.
The sham that is security doesn’t help, doesn’t work, and only adds cost and aggravation to US air travel. Sure, I’m being groped and pictured nude, but Achmed the baggage handler is slipping whatever he wants onto planes.
The problem is that somebody EXTREMELY UNLIKELY to be a terrorist, me, is being cavity searched while somebody QUITE LIKELY to be a terrorist is handed a security pass and told to wander around the airport.
About all our government does well, outside of our fine military, is waste our money and our time.
Related… Abolish the TSA.
November 15th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Good idea- replace privately run security with a huge govt bureaocracy, that always works. It sounds as if maybe people have had enough. I suppose when they talk with their feet, and take other modes, the airlines will have incentive to tell the govt to cool it. Money talks, until then bend over and cough, I guess.
November 16th, 2010 at 9:14 am
What are the security standards for airport employees?
November 16th, 2010 at 9:40 am
I presume tight. But I also presume, since I’ve had guns stolen INSIDE the system, that they are lacking. I’ve also been told, but airport police/TSA people, that the ground systems at LAX (baggage, so forth) are run by Mexican gangs, and the MX gang at some eastern airports. So I don’t appreciate being stripped search in the airport, while gangs run wild on the runway and underneath the airport.
Now that we know what they are willing to do, nobody is going to let a Muslim hijack a plane with a fake bomb, or even a real gun.
November 16th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Does that mean that if we cannot have perfect security, we should have no security?
How do you interpret the fact that we have had no attacks on planes originating within the US since 9/11 under TSA security?
November 16th, 2010 at 11:32 am
#4… see my next post on this. I recommend airborne security.
And I’d chalk it up more to Iraq/Afghanistan/Predator Drones than the TSA.