Comments on: Stop me if any of this sounds familiar… http://anotherperfect.com/stop-me-if-any-of-this-sounds-familiar/ Unfocused, Biased, Irreverent & Irrelevant. A bit like you. Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:12:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jeremy http://anotherperfect.com/stop-me-if-any-of-this-sounds-familiar/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Jeremy Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:17:00 +0000 http://anotherperfect.com/wordpress/?p=18#comment-4 The crux of what I wrote is that screening is not enough. If very intrusive and well-run screening such as El Al's can fail, our current levels of screening seem destined to. So we need multiple lines of defence, like the Israeli air marshals and the communication within Israel's airlines. We have neither, instead we pretend that if we dump another $100k into a screening machine run by somebody making $10/hour we're covered. We are not. <br /> <br />Especially as Cargo is flying mostly unscreened to this day. Any day now a terrorist is going to decide he doesn't want to die with his bomb and go to a western airline's cargo office with an overnight package or ten. He'll do it through a white intermediary who's done business with that airline in the past, and it may take months to find enough pieces of the plane to put together what happened. <br /> <br />You know, if the 'shoe bomber' had known that we were stupid enough to allow lighters on flights we might still not be sure what had happened to his flight. The fact that we are again allowing lighters on planes is all anybody should need to decide how serious we are about airline security. The Tobacco lobby is more important than keeping ignition sources out of an area nobody is allowed to smoke in anyway. The crux of what I wrote is that screening is not enough. If very intrusive and well-run screening such as El Al’s can fail, our current levels of screening seem destined to. So we need multiple lines of defence, like the Israeli air marshals and the communication within Israel’s airlines. We have neither, instead we pretend that if we dump another $100k into a screening machine run by somebody making $10/hour we’re covered. We are not.

Especially as Cargo is flying mostly unscreened to this day. Any day now a terrorist is going to decide he doesn’t want to die with his bomb and go to a western airline’s cargo office with an overnight package or ten. He’ll do it through a white intermediary who’s done business with that airline in the past, and it may take months to find enough pieces of the plane to put together what happened.

You know, if the ’shoe bomber’ had known that we were stupid enough to allow lighters on flights we might still not be sure what had happened to his flight. The fact that we are again allowing lighters on planes is all anybody should need to decide how serious we are about airline security. The Tobacco lobby is more important than keeping ignition sources out of an area nobody is allowed to smoke in anyway.

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