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Those highly trained TSA rent-a-morons at work!I like how they went through multiple planes before being found.
Those highly trained TSA rent-a-morons at work!
The bombs are extremely sophisticated and difficult to find, we have read too much of the 'amateur' bombers caught with stuff in their shoes etc so assume that all these bombers are of the same type but they aren't. Underestimating the enemy is a dangerous thing to do.
With the small size of the charges, could they have done very serious damage to a plane? .
With the small size of the charges, could they have done very serious damage to a plane?
I have to be patted down everytime I go through an airport due to some hardware in my body. They can get pretty personal. I can't imagine cupping thier hands would make a noticable difference in detecting contraband on a person.
Thanks for the answers. You can obviously tell I'm no explosives expert
Agreed. However, at least in the USA, the TSA admits that they do not even search 100% of all cargo that goes in passenger planes. You can't find anything if you don't search it. Increasing searches on passengers when don't even look at the packages that third-party shippers put in the holds of the same planes is not security; it's bogus 'feel good' theater.
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/node/1316789?pageNum=5
Says right there - despite being ordered by Congress to screen ALL cargo on passenger planes, repeatedly, the TSA currently (July 2010) has a 'goal' of screening just 50% of all perishable goods for example. That's a 50% chance of a head of lettuce being something else - it doesn't even get checked half the time.
We cannot call that security.
Thanks Bill, you saved me the trouble of saying this! I was thinking the same thing...I mean, if you're going to screen every single passenger, if you're going to screen every single carry on, then why not every package? Difficult as it may be, this, IMO, is exactly what the bad guys are looking at. And as I said, why does it take an incident, to make people wake up and say, "Gee, maybe we better start doing this."