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No planes has been taken down since 9/11, but there are have been failed attempts. Although when the failed attempts happened, it wasn't because the airport stopped them, but because the devices they had were faulty.Quote:
Originally Posted by TSMichelleAustin
It's not about ONE person losing their life. A single plane taken down by Islamic extremists is viewed by the U.S. government as an attack by a foreign enemy, which automatically demands a military response.
If you don't wanna wear a seat belt or skip a flu shot in the winter, who cares?? Uncle Sam isn't going to vaporize a U.S. city if some random dies.
But if the U.S. feels they've been hit again by Al Qaeda in any significant way that results in a high body count, shit is on. As in, some Islamic country is erased from the map. Next stop, WWIII.
Some of you are really self-centered and narrow minded when it comes to this security bullshit in order to get on an airplane.
It's not about you dying, or the airlines, or increased security.
Enhanced security is about preventing another attack aboard an airliner so that the U.S. military isn't given an excuse to lob nukes into the Middle East.
Like i said I am happy with my trains!
btw Giovanni i still like u if we disagree! U got ur shout out in other thread i guess u havent seen! LOL! But know this your right, but i feel differently. We are all entitled to that. I rather not live my life in fear! So with that being said I am through with this subject!
Thanx Michelle!! All luv, never mad at ya!!lolQuote:
Originally Posted by TSMichelleAustin
I guess I'm saying what Bella did in a different way; I don't trust my government to do the right thing after a terrorist attack, like not start another war in the Middle East.
All the people complaining about being 'screened' in this way is such an 'invasion' of your privacy... sorry but flying on an airplane is not a 'right'. It's a privalege. You have many other means of transportation that you can take at your disposal. Trains, boats, buses, cars.
If that inconveniences you, too bad- so sad. May be you could ask the people who died on 9-11 if they'd would subject themselves to better security checks like we have today rather than smash into the side of the World Trade Center going 400 mile per hour on a bright sunny morning. Im pretty sure all the father/motherless kids would agree too.
Personally, I'd rather have a camera jammed up my ass that one time a year that I fly than a firey death.... just use plenty of lube.
They should make a new airline.... call it "Free for All".... you can take your chances on this airline... no security checks... no xray... no nothing... just walk in, board and call it a day. No 'invasion' of your or anyone else privacy. You and all the other complainers can feel comfortable that no one saw your junk on an xray picture. Good luck getting a pilot... but have fun anyway... and if you dont mind.... name me as your beneficary on your will please!
Certainly agree with Bella. It's a scam.
- The scanners are a selling-to-the-government scam that don't help security. The head of Israeli security, for example, said as much.
- The increasingly aggressive pat-downs are in no way helping security, they're purely an intimidation device to get more people to comply with the scanners. TSA workers have said so.
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, indeed. Bunch of sheep, really.
Good point...Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveinBoston
Yea, I've heard that argument before. Driving a vehicle isn't a right either under the law, it's a privilege that the government is free to remove from you for any number of reasons. To be quite honest, that argument gets old after a while. If walking to where ever you want to go is the only "right" you have then you're pretty much left to the whims of bureaucrats.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveinBoston
If something is only a privilege then is there a line that you would draw over what the government could demand of you in order to exercise that privilege? Would mandatory cavity searches be OK? Having your biometrics cataloged? DNA samples before being allowed to board? RFID chips being installed in your ID or even in your body?
Here's the President of the US Airline Pilots Association on this issue:Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveinBoston
http://www.examiner.com/conservative...-year-old-girlQuote:
Let's be perfectly clear: the TSA procedures we have outlined above are blatantly unacceptable as a long-term solution. Although an immediate solution cannot be guaranteed, I can promise you that your union will not rest until all U.S. airline pilots have a way to reach their workplace ... the aircraft ... without submitting ourselves to the will of a TSO behind closed doors.
This situation has already produced a sexual molestation in alarmingly short order. Left unchecked, there's simply no way to predict how far the TSA will overreach in searching and frisking pilots who are, ironically, mere minutes from being in the flight deck.
As we all know, it makes no difference what a pilot has on his or her person or in their luggage, because they have control of the aircraft throughout the entire flight. The eyewash being dribbled by the TSA in this instance is embarrassingly devoid of common sense, and we will not stand for it.