
Liquid explosives are nothing new and were around long before airplanes were invented. The political hacks in charge of the FAA and TSA were told this and also know determined bombers cannot be stopped. There are loads of low tech ways to detonate bomb materials without cell phones, batteries and wires. The only way to control bombers is prevent all passengers, crews, baggage, and belongings from being loaded on the airplanes.
Although I’m not an explosives expert I learned a thing or two as a medical Corpsman attached to an Army Combat Engineer Battalion and also as a cop. I knew enough to know that the TSA’s bomb detection equipment could never even slow down someone that knew just what I know.
I figured several ways to defeat the TSA and bring down a commercial airplane. If I could do this certainly our enemies could too. Thankfully this also made another fact abundantly clear; that blowing up our airliners is just not that important to the terrorists.
Passenger screening and terror prevention begins and ends with real law enforcement profiling. Armed and trained law enforcement people can protect us much better than those TSA workers.
It’s also time to demand that every trained and screened cop in America be encouraged and allowed to fly with their firearms. Let’s end the TSA’s security shell game.
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If the public knew the truth millions of people would never fly and this would mess up our economy.
Our agents are on the way to arrest you and confiscate your computer too.
We have some special punishment in mind for you. The olny job you will ever be able to get from now will be that of a TSA screener!
We know how to make you safe! Cavity searches are the way to go! Bend over!
Giving everyone a link to liquid bomb material was really bad as you make lite of this with that Big Gulp picture, shheez!
I've flown once since 9/11, and agree that TSA is not the most effective nor consistent when it comes to airport security. The only time I'll trust the government with my safety is if I'm buried in a military cemetary...until then, I think I'm responsible enough to look out for myself.
The future for business travel is corporate plane-pooling and for the private individual it's called the automobile and in some cases Amtrak or Greyhound. As for overseas travel; either book a ride on a merchant freighter or take your chances because no one can insure anyone's safety today without employing the same security procedures seen everyday at any SuperMax prison. Everyone will undergo a body cavity search at some point during the embarking process; some announced but most will be unannounced.
Airline stock today will soon prove to be about as valuable as Pennsylvania Railroad stock.
If we adopted more of an Israeli approach in running the airlines, how the planes are protected and dealing with passenger safety, it would be a lot better too. Love or hate the Israeli's, their airplanes are safer than ours...