Flying Safer

I guess so if it meant I could read a book, or go to the bathroom.

Guess we ought to know we really are at war with somebody, if this is where it has gotten to.

Very depressing, as if civilization is just done, and over with.

May as well just give everybody a sleeping pill prior to boarding.

So how much longer until we have to put on prison issue one piece jump suites, hand and leg shackles, and bow our heads from entrance to exit (con air style) for our own safety on a plane flight just in case that 1 in a billion plus passenger may be slightly possibly dangerous?

After reading some of the news articles on the web in regards to this incident (and the aftermath, which is NOT as bad or broad as reported in the above short article) I will keep it short. Another (small) win for the "Terrorists" due to self-inflicted stupidity of US security (etc) post-incident .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34592031

...simple: fly "au natural" and be done with it!

Instead of restricting everybody, maybe we should arm the passengers.

Terrorists are a small minority. Armed passengers outnumber them enormously and could easily subdue a terrorist if he tried anything.

Could make a trip a bit jumpy with everyone looking for a suspicious move from anyone else, and wouldn't readily stop the bomber who just wants to down the plane, not use it to destroy anything else.

Interesting that bombers seem to be becoming less competent and have their attacks less well planned.

Perhaps the "war on terror" is starting to make them desperate for results and is biting better than our press are willing to admit?

I hear that body scanners are extremely detailed and the terrahertz waves unzip DNA. Our government is still scamming people. Trying to make them afraid so that they will accept more legislation and more control.

Average guys are getting excessively screened while the Muslims are getting let through the airports without fuss.

With increased security measures, it is getting harder for a terrorist to get anything on to a plane, unless he can bypass security.

As an example, he could probably get a job as a baggage handler, then later slip a bomb onto a plane with no one the wiser as to where it has come from.

In Australia, if they tried to increase security of these workers, the unions would promptly call them out on strike and shut everything down, so they don't do anything much. Nominal security which I don't have any real confidence in.

The situation is similar in many other countries, not because of unions but various other reasons, eg "one talks" in New guinea and similar relationship problems elsewhere.

We busily inconvenience the innocent, but are we really closing all the loopholes?