A Dangerous Loophole in Airport Security

[9GClub]

What about post-security checkpoint issues?

The bottom line is that absolute security is pretty dang close to a complete joke. What about an inside job? What about stuff that goes on past security?

Some have suggested-- albeit in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek fashion-- that gate agents hand out knives (guns, tazers, tweezers, forks, whatever) to everyone getting on a commercial aircraft ("Ladies and gentlemen, in your seat pocket in front of you you'll find a complimentary copy of our inflight magazine, the venerable vomit bag, and a Glock 19......"). The good guys will probably outnumber the bad.

Joking aside, however, the TSA folks do a pretty fine job considering the logistical nightmares they have to deal with.

 

[jethro]

Yup we could give the pax guns and knives, but then the airlines couldn't serve alcohol, a major source of revenue... thus they wouldn't be able to pay pilots those $130,000 salaries MSN was reporting on.

Speaking of which since that article had the average lawyer making $90k, I'm pulling my kid out of Harvard law and enrolling him in Comair!

 

[FN FAL]

Thats awesome, I bet we can all hear Arnold sayin that.

Fn Fal that movie would ROCK!!!! I'd pay money to see that.

Cool, glad you liked it...sometimes I get one cup of coffee too much and "BRUGADUNG!" Maybe I should keep writing on that screenplay and theme it like the "kung pow-enter the fist movie". Kind of like a COMMANDO movie naked gun/airplane thing?

But anyway, it was the only way I could illustrate that the paperwork inside the building is only as good as how far bad people are willing to do the do outside the building, without risking a black van pull up in front of the house.

Here's a question I gotta ask you guys...I know from the news that they busted those jerkoffs coming in from Canada with the US girl just after 9/11. I think they even got caught with some plans or were trying to sneak some stuff in. But other than those guys, the Moosowie character, Reid the shoe bomber and the guys they whisked away to gitmo, where the heck are all these US based terrorist cells they told us were out there?

They bombed a train in Spain and got an election changed over it, we didn't even have one single act...not even a shiite taking a dump on a USPS mail box...before our election. You'd think those guys would have surfaced by now.

Don't get me wrong, I think overseas there is a great risk of terrorist cells acting out and they are working hard at busting these guys, but what happened over here? Now they want to privatize the TSA screeners...whazzup with that? Could it be that we totally cleaned their clocks over in Afghanistan and Iraq...at least as far as them being able to commit acts out of their theater? Good then...it must mean we are doing something right.