Why would explosives be the main focus when the TSA was created to help prevent another 9/11? Explosives don't really help hijack a plane, either. They'll just blow up the plane, wherever it happens to be.
Yes, we did. And 9/11© was NOT a "Screening Failure", in fact the "weapons" the hijackers used were permitted at the time.
Yes, we had security screening before 9/11. As I recall it pretty much was just putting our bags/purses on a conveyor belt to be scanned. At Phila, these were located at the entrance of each terminal.
There's one simple thing that will make sure we'll NEVER have another 9/11, and it has nothing to do with the TSA.
I remember greeting grandma right off the plane at sky harbor airport in Phoenix. No we didn't fly that day, and this was in 2001.
Pre 9/11 security consisted of Walk Through Metal Detection (WTMD), bag X-Ray and Wanding for resolution. There was no
It's not clear what you're trying to get at? You didn't need to have a ticket or boarding pass but you did have to be screened through security. Been that way since the 1970's.
h34r: A mild example being IRA were a bunch of heroes and funded from here never mind they were blowing random bombs in the UK. A more insidious one, the Taliban, a creature of US funded project. 9/11 helped the US understand what the real world is like, and then we went into an unmitigated panic and screwed up a great opportunity to provide some true principled leadership, and instead like Don Quixote charged off at random windmills and made it worse. OK off of my "rant box" now.
Untrue. In the '70's, in fact right up until around 11AM on 9/11/01, it was policy to cooperate with hijackers. And policy let you carry through anything up to and including something Crocodile Dundee would carry as a result. But whether they had anything or not, was immaterial - someone could stick their finger in their coat pocket, say they had a gun, and everyone was getting an all-expenses-paid trip to Cuba, by policy.
We've had security screening since the 1970s, I believe the final straw was the DB Cooper affair. It was mainly metal detector to weed out guns and knives. You didn't have to have a boarding pass to pass through. My wife and daughter used to come to the gate to see me off on business trips. And also be at the gate when I came home.
Absolutely. Since pretty much every terrorist attempt has either been foiled by the passengers, or succeeded. At least in the US where we're seeing a 97% failure rate in penetration testing, I don't trust the TSA.
Not really borrowed, per se. The fees charged airline pax that are SUPPOSED to go to the TSA were diverted by congress to make the deficit look lower than it really is, in a typical smoke and mirror fashion:
Untrue. I know for fact, personal experience, you could NOT carry a folding knife over so many (whatever it was) inches blade length. I had to sacrifice a great 3 inch Buck due to that rule back in the late 70's
Well said.. . . 9/11 helped the US understand what the real world is like, and then we went into an unmitigated panic and screwed up a great opportunity to provide some true principled leadership. . .
Not quite. We're dealing with the government, where you can't be fired for anything. He was just removed from his position. He's still being paid by us, and probably for doing nothing now. (Not that he was doing anything before.)
It's not just the "government" where total losers get to keep their "positions" until they get caught -- o no --
