Website review: The Airport Security Follies - Je...
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egbert rated 4 months ago- long rant - but a lot of truth. There is no way to protect against everything; next time it will be some completely unexpected thing, and then we'll have to have our toenails clipped before boarding a hovercraft.
- zinconinco rated 5 months ago
- a fantastic article. From the page: "The notion that deadly explosives can be cooked up in an airplane lavatory is pure fiction," Greene told me during an interview. "A handy gimmick for action movies and shows like `24.' The reality proves disappointing: it's rather awkward to do chemistry in an airplane toilet. Nevertheless, our official protectors and deciders respond to such notions instinctively, because they're familiar to us: we've all seen scenarios on television and in the cinema. This, incredibly, is why you can no longer carry a bottle of water onto a plane." "The three-ounce container rule is silly enough -- after all, what's to stop somebody from carrying several small bottles each full of the same substance -- but consider for a moment the hypocrisy of T.S.A.'s confiscation policy. At every concourse checkpoint you'll see a bin or barrel brimming with contraband containers taken from passengers for having exceeded the volume limit. Now, the assumption has to be that the materials in those containers are potentially hazardous. If not, why were they seized in the first place? But if so, why are they dumped unceremoniously into the trash? They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are simply thrown away. The agency seems to be saying that it knows these things are harmless. But it's going to steal them anyway, and either you accept it or you don't fly."
- RedOracle rated 6 months ago
- Look this: Try and read this: http://www.redoracle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=183&Itemid=1
- stumbleideafarm rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are simply thrown away. "
Interesting! Here's more: These products are deployed in showers and baths to wash hair and body, clean teeth and deodorise armpits and turn up in the toiletry bags of homeless folk and people in need after they are confiscated at airports and donated to shelters and food banks. - From the page: "They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are simply thrown away. "
- kchishol1970 rated 6 months ago
- Some much needed reality about airline security.
- darxon rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "But of all the contradictions and self-defeating measures T.S.A. has come up with, possibly none is more blatantly ludicrous than the policy decreeing that pilots and flight attendants undergo the same x-ray and metal detector screening as passengers. What makes it ludicrous is that tens of thousands of other airport workers, from baggage loaders and fuelers to cabin cleaners and maintenance personnel, are subject only to occasional random screenings when they come to work." Great article on the folly of our current approach to airport security. Thanks for the link to und1sk0.
- chris-garrett rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Conned and frightened, our nation demands not actual security, but security spectacle."
- JJPeloquin rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport security remains a theater of the absurd. The changes put in place following the September 11th catastrophe have been drastic, and largely of two kinds: those practical and effective, and those irrational, wasteful and pointless."
