How many people have been murdered in the sky in the past 10 years?
How many innocent lives have been lost by an aircraft flying into a building?
I present an ID, step through a scanner which lasts a whole 3 seconds, my luggage is scanned - which takes about 30 seconds. Knives, pistols, yes - boxcutters, drugs and even C-4 have been discovered in carry-on bags in the past 6 months. Those are the captures we know about.
The degenerate rag-heads want to kill or maim us, and at 37,000 ft, unarmed and innocent people are a known target. The point of Terrorism is not to murder or kill innocents, the purpose of terrorism is to gain political strength that is inordinately stronger than the population of those who weild it. They can do this by dropping liquids (say - oh, Bleach and some Ammonia) on the carpet of a plane, or mixing two inert chemicals to create an explosive mixture.
We are safe. Is the system perfect? Nope, but it’s getting better and better. I’d rather be inconvenienced than dead. If we were to go your route, and remove security - it wouldn’t be long before we had another 9-11 scenario. We have already caught several degenerate rag-head bombers in New York; planes are a much more dramatic target.
If you can think of a better (legal) way we can screen people for weapons/drugs/chemicals - I’m open to suggestions. As-is, Libtards will not allow us to use “Profiling” (a known effective tool), we cannot bar Muslims from airports. If you have a better idea - let’s have it.
Hodar. . your tag line says it all.
You give these bureaucratic overlords a pass and when we, the people, demand to be treated fairly and equally (traveling does not make you a suspect), then you sheep bleat on about ever more inventive ways terrorist can do nasty things. . .can’;t win.
Clear liquids can't be seen on the scanners, and cleaning crews have unlimited access to the ramp and on the jets.
The cleaning crews, many of them illegals, having free run. . .makes me all warm and fuzzy whereas groping children and veterans is a “must do” in your mind.
How about aircrew?
They have to pass through security and many of the pilots are armed and all have access to an axe in the cockpit.
There are so many glaring and obvious holes in this “security” theater you worship that is is laughable and silly for all to see, except for those that refuse to see.
The “secret” saves thing you refer to-—nonsense. DHS would trumpet to the world any save they have because The Messiah and Nappy-pants would want to get pats on the back and positive press.
Incompetents running the program, dolt's and criminals doing the job and mindless sheeple thinking it is all good.
Sheesh.
You may be able to blow smoke at those that don't fly much, but to those that fly a heck of a lot more than you, we see through your smoke screen easily.
For starters, how about not tormenting little 4-year old girls who instinctively hugged their grandmothers?
How about not asking women who’ve had breast cancer and a breast removed to remove their prosthetics in a very embarrassing and degrading way?
How about not searching little boys in a wheelchair with a body cast on when they are obviously crying and in distress?
How about not groping people who do not want their private parts groped just because you don’t mind it?
How about hiring people for the TSA that can use common sense and don’t have a power gig going on?
How about letting each individual airport handle their own security screening privately instead of the government employees making headlines almost every week from their ineptitude?
How about actually telling the liberals to take a hike and profile the real possible terrorists like the Israelis do and not little old men and women who are obviously not terror risks?
How about hiring a professional security person to run the Department of Homeland Security instead of that inept, deer-in-the-headlights incompetent, Janet Napolitano, who is a carpet-bagger liberal who did a terrible job as governor of Arizona?
This TSA system is not about making us safe. It’s about covering the butts of the bureaucrats and politicians in case anything nefarious does happen.
Again, you argue that you’d rather give up your freedom and right of privacy and go through all this so-called security to feel safe. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential liberties to gain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety, nor will they have either.”