I have learned it is pointless to comment on what flying is and why the TSA makes sense (although it made more sense when it was private and some of the new rules are dumber than dumb).
But my favorites are the worm-eaters who say “I just won’t fly.”
I just LMAO when I see how people let the terrorists and the gummit control their lives. But I do feel sad that people are so easily manipulated.
Cascading screening (which is what is described here) is the BEST security system. It is what El Al has been doing for 3 or 4 decades and what we should be doing instead of strip searching 6 year old girls and 80 year old grandmothers.
But we are getting there — just REALLY slowly. I am a Global Entry/Trusted Traveler flyer and can usually skip the X-ray and taking shoes off and laptops out.
Its a profiling phobia. PC bs.... the FBI invented profiling in this country. The TASK should follow. It works. Ask any cop..
How does it make sense to confiscate nail clippers and to strip search 80 year old women. How does it make sense to pat down 6 year olds while you let 20 year old Muslim males pass with out a word.
Cascading screening (which is what is described here) is the BEST security system. It is what El Al has been doing for 3 or 4 decades and what we should be doing instead of strip searching 6 year old girls and 80 year old grandmothers.
What is described here is a mockery of what El Al does. El Al selectively does intense questioning suspicious individuals after a cursory questioning.
The author suggests that the TSA agents chose him at random for questioning. El Al uses behavior clues to select individuals for more intense questioning.
Until our government gets past their aversion to profiling the TSA is a no more than a speed bump to some one trying to commit a terrorist act on a public transportation conveyance.
Worm eaters?
Ha!
I'd rather go to the dentist than have to fly somewhere. I feel for those who have to fly for their work...That would suck bad...Having to deal with flying buses, airports, while sniffed, scanned, x-rayed, searched, etc. just became too much...Then breathing each others body fumes for hours while on the flying bus, seated next to some obese slob that smells like a camp fire....later with that.
Thank God I do not have to participate in any of that flying bus BS.
I’ve been through El Al and what we have is NOTHING like that. Theirs is efficient and not afraid to call an apple an apple while allowing the oranges through with a quick check and little hassle. Again what I went through for an interview recently is nothing like what they have and I didn’t have to do any special signup BS to get onto some special list in order to be treated as a non-threat or elite persona.
I’ll drive anything less than 24 hours until they “get the bugs worked out” or actually do cascading screening with the requisite profiling.