Re: [Leica] airport security kinda long. ;-)

["Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>]

It is interesting to note; that with all the inconvenience and disrespect
the passengers suffer, the screening still does not reasonably assure that
weapons and explosives will not get through.  That is unreasonable.

I wonder what would happen if as a passenger being put through an unpleasant
search decided to not take my flight and demand a refund of my ticket?

It would seem reasonable that I should not have to experience the rude and
nasty attitude of the security people in the more advanced stages of their
search.

Frankly, I think the public should vote with their dollars or other currency
and avoid flying except for when it is necessary.  The airlines would have
to pressure the security contractors to ease up and treat the passengers as
customers rather than as the enemy.

Roland Smith
Oakland, California

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Jennings" <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] airport security kinda long. ;-)


> 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.
> >
>
>
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