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Reader comment on item: Security Theater Now Playing at Your Airport
Submitted by Jeff (United States), Jan 7, 2010 at 16:33
Does anyone doubt that Atta and his thugs could have easily taken over their plane without the boxcutters they used ?
If the goal is to bring a plane down, starting a fire in the cabin would probably do it. Good thing there are no flammable liquids in there like hard liquors. Or simply open the emergency exits at high altitude.
Screen the people not just the tools of the terrorist trade.
An armed robber is still a robber without his gun.
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| Airport attack [101 words] | Clifton M | Apr 17, 2010 17:23 | 171412 | ||
| THE FLYING FOLLIES OF THE T.S.A. [901 words] | DANIEL REDMOND | Jan 29, 2010 19:59 | 168104 | ||
 the keys under the lamppost [220 words] | pdm | Feb 4, 2010 09:54 | 168104 | ||
| finland profiling, statistics about immigrants [71 words] | myth | Jan 18, 2010 17:48 | 167505 | ||
| 1 | America Doesn't Have The Personnel To Do What israel Does [145 words] | Mike | Jan 16, 2010 22:16 | 167407 | |
| america does have personnel in some places [130 words] | myth | Jan 18, 2010 18:16 | 167407 | ||
| A Complicated Problem With Strong Differences of Opinion [343 words] | Mike | Jan 18, 2010 20:58 | 167407 | ||
| great article [15 words] | GetClued | Jan 14, 2010 13:51 | 167335 | ||
| 1 | Theater of the Absurd [325 words] | Arlinda | Jan 13, 2010 11:59 | 167291 | |
| Advisors [209 words] | Robert | Jan 13, 2010 06:24 | 167269 | ||
| 1 | New FAA policies [137 words] | pdm | Jan 12, 2010 11:17 | 167233 | |
| 1 | It is the IDEOLOGY stupid! [295 words] | BA | Jan 11, 2010 22:43 | 167210 | |
| 1 | How can anyone be that stupid? [70 words] | Lester | Jan 10, 2010 15:06 | 167147 | |
| 1 | Smart profiling saves lives [368 words] | Rebecca Ellen Moulds | Jan 10, 2010 13:36 | 167143 | |
| Ignoring a hero. [67 words] | Judita Hruza MD | Jan 9, 2010 17:59 | 167104 | ||
| HERE'S ONE FOR YOU [77 words] | DEBORAH THE JUDGE | Jan 10, 2010 00:05 | 167104 | ||
| join the fanclub of Jasper Schuringa [26 words] | myth | Jan 10, 2010 11:17 | 167104 | ||
| FORGOTTEN HERO [156 words] | DANIEL REDMOND | Jan 31, 2010 07:56 | 167104 | ||
| Why are visa and security systems so primitive [240 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Sully | Jan 9, 2010 15:21 | 167100 | ||
| Screening [175 words] | Jay1 | Jan 9, 2010 12:11 | 167093 | ||
| I remember that incident - Is there anything lower than that Palestinian monster? [62 words] | Jeremiah Johnson | Jan 8, 2010 18:57 | 167058 | ||
| As far as I see he is still in jail [171 words] | sara | Jan 9, 2010 19:24 | 167058 | ||
| Thank you for the info - surprised the British have not bent over yet [38 words] | Jeremiah Johnson | Jan 13, 2010 11:08 | 167058 | ||
| The super power cannot protect the air traffic [184 words] | fosh | Jan 8, 2010 11:16 | 167035 | ||
| the data mining game [67 words] | pdm | Jan 8, 2010 10:27 | 167029 | ||
| discrimination is evil [141 words] | pdm | Jan 8, 2010 10:14 | 167028 | ||
| Highjacking [103 words] | zdenek Hruza | Jan 8, 2010 08:18 | 167026 | ||
| Highjacking- I agree on Profiling, and also hiring qualified trained screeners. response to zdenek Hruza. [53 words] | Anne-USA | Jan 10, 2010 17:22 | 167026 | ||
| Terribly inhuman [71 words] | Anon | Jan 8, 2010 00:30 | 167007 | ||
| The West's medical emergency [437 words] | Lance W. | Jan 7, 2010 21:21 | 167004 | ||
| 1 | ISA account differs [19 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Zvi | Jan 7, 2010 20:06 | 166998 |
 Bare Hands [82 words] | Jeff | Jan 7, 2010 16:33 | 166989 | ||
| Yet, Screeners Would Have To Know Things. [65 words] | Mark Preston | Jan 7, 2010 12:25 | 166977 | ||
| Security Theater Now Playing at Your Airport. You certainly nailed this one Dr. Pipes. [254 words] | Anne-USA | Jan 7, 2010 11:58 | 166975 | ||
| Imaging complicates the job of the terrorists, as does profiling [73 words] | Sully | Jan 9, 2010 15:09 | 166975 | ||
| Imaging complicates the job of the terrorists, as does profiling. I can see how imaging would be useful.- [315 words] | Anne- USA | Jan 10, 2010 17:11 | 166975 | ||
| Hopeless in the US. Unless... [203 words] | Alain Jean-Mairet | Jan 7, 2010 03:32 | 166965 | ||
| screening [121 words] | Ted Rice | Jan 9, 2010 00:04 | 166965 | ||
| An idea to speed up the screening for suicide bombers [104 words] | Alain Jean-Mairet | Jan 10, 2010 00:14 | 166965 | ||
| TSA Should be Trained by Israelis [131 words] | Sofa Sogood | Jan 7, 2010 03:04 | 166963 | ||
| Seriously, we are not taking JIHAD seriously. ...Jan 2010 [627 words] | Phil Greend | Jan 6, 2010 21:23 | 166953 | ||
| El Al's screening is brilliant [36 words] | Abu Nudnik | Jan 6, 2010 19:27 | 166945 | ||
| Interesting [55 words] | Barry Black | Jan 7, 2010 10:39 | 166945 | ||
| WMD = Human [25 words] | Lady | Jan 7, 2010 12:46 | 166945 | ||
| Demonizing all the Muslims by one example is BAD [48 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Abu Hurairah | Jan 8, 2010 10:52 | 166945 | ||
| Why not in the U.S.? [333 words] | C. Meyers' | Mar 23, 2012 23:18 | 166945 | ||
| are all human beings good? [55 words] | G.Vishvas | Jan 6, 2010 18:56 | 166942 | ||
| All Human Beings are good? [210 words] | Joe Kaffir | Jan 8, 2010 00:40 | 166942 | ||
| Pessimism [103 words] | John W. McGinley | Jan 6, 2010 18:20 | 166939 | ||
| leaping the dots to connect the flying conclusions... [514 words] | d levy | Jan 6, 2010 18:15 | 166938 | ||
| the greater jihad [18 words] | myth | Jan 7, 2010 03:21 | 166938 | ||
| Stop swatting the bees and destroy the nest from which they come [165 words] | Ralph C. Whaley | Jan 6, 2010 16:19 | 166935 | ||
| Confidence in Security Requires Competence in Security Methods-There are No Oscars for Failure to Act According to the Threat [208 words] | M. Tovey | Jan 6, 2010 13:22 | 166929 | ||
| Security? [225 words] | Barry Black | Jan 6, 2010 12:31 | 166927 | ||
| The Profiling Fiasco [41 words] | Frank Verano | Jan 6, 2010 11:58 | 166923 | ||
| Reactions [39 words] | DGR | Jan 6, 2010 11:52 | 166922 | ||
| Ann Marie Murphy's involvement is an argument to interrogate everyone [34 words] | Gamaliel Isaac | Jan 6, 2010 10:58 | 166919 | ||
| Security Theatre [99 words] | Nelson D'Silva | Jan 6, 2010 09:53 | 166917 | ||
| whatever it takes ? [43 words] | myth | Jan 7, 2010 02:54 | 166917 | ||
| Commonsense over life [43 words] | Nelson D'Silva | Jan 8, 2010 05:17 | 166917 | ||
| Clouseau-like [32 words] | Joe | Jan 6, 2010 09:33 | 166916 | ||
| Airline Security and Mr Obama [115 words] | Nenette Grunberg | Jan 6, 2010 09:30 | 166915 | ||
| How is this? [439 words] | Ray Wasser | Jan 6, 2010 07:36 | 166912 | ||
| take the train ? [12 words] | myth | Jan 7, 2010 02:46 | 166912 | ||
| Coming Soon [18 words] | Barry Black | Jan 8, 2010 12:15 | 166912 | ||
| a flight to NYC christmas 2001 [419 words] | myth | Jan 6, 2010 06:09 | 166906 | ||
| "Profiling" and "discrimination" are not the same [402 words] | M. Hiller | Jan 6, 2010 23:06 | 166906 | ||
| is "Our entire air travel industry is at risk of being grounded - exactly what the terrorists want." ? [235 words] | myth | Jan 9, 2010 06:34 | 166906 |
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