Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And they wonder why air travel is off? I'd rather sit home or drive and avoid the hassles....from the airline financial situation most people would too. Until we start profiling higher risk catagories of people it will stay like this. Today the uneducated guards decide who gets extra screening...At $9/hr. who would you pick???...the friendly unthreatening sorts (young couples with kids, grandparents, etc.) They are the ones I usually see pulled aside...Rediculous! How many airplanes have been hijacked by young married couples with babies in arms? ZERO. How many by 80 year old ladies? All those that whine about not profiling because of civil rights are idiots. This is war, and we have a pretty good idea of the profile of the kind of person we have to worry about...doesn't mean we should treat folks that fit the profile unfairly or without respect because 99.9999% of them are innocent. However, it doesn't make us safer to have guards with high school (at best) education strip searching grandmothers either. In the end the civil rights lawyers will be happy, and the airlines will be out of business because no one will put up with it...particularly when it isn't safer than it was before 9/11. - --- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > A note in the changing airport security saga. One > must keep relaxed and > roll with it. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html