No, it is stupid to assume that vicious, murdering fanatics are above slipping a blade, boxcutter or odorless explosive on the person of an unsuspecting 80 year old. Ditto for broad accusations of watching an arab just walk on by. Gimme a break. The attacks that killed thousands of Americans on 9-11 were not the results of an impromtu, poorly thought out, lamebrained idea. They were carefully and precisely planned, flaws in the system were pinpointed and then used against us. Unlike its critics, airport security is a complex and complicated process. Even murdering, stoneage thugs like OSL understand that.
I remember hearing/reading a story about people being searched in Bosnia and one of the guards did not do a proper search of a baby a couple was carrying .. the Commander there stopped the couple and told the guard to search the baby .. they guard said at the time he thought his commander was being ridiculous but because it was an order he search the baby only to find a hand grenade in the baby's diaper
Yes I can understand that many of these searches seem ridiculous but we are also at war with people that want to kill as many Americans as possible ..
With that said .. I am also thinking there should be some kind of technology out there to make this an easier job
Surely everyone agrees what happened on 911 was a planned event......there seems to be a question as to who did it. I maintain it wasn't done by elderly whitehairs who can scarcely walk let along jump members of flight crews threatening to kill them.
And I have to wonder just how many vicious, murdering fanatics answer truthfully when asked if they had anyone watch their luggage, or if anyone gave them something to carry for them....that's really complicated and complex actions for security?
That is true but then they were not doing anything illegal or taking anything on the plane that was illegal at that time and it just boggles my mind that we will make rules and regulations to take water pistols away from children and nail clippers away from old ladies but nobody seems willing to do the obvious and block access to these fanatics to begin with. Every d**n one of them was here illegally at the time the attacks took place, and yes I know that some of them were here legally at one time...while they were being trained by US schools to carry out their demonic deed, but AT the TIME they were ALL illegals, and yet we still seem to have a problem with the idea of rounding them up and getting them the hell out and denying furthur student visas to ANYBODY from countries that have been determined to sponsor terrorism. We dance all around the real issue, which logically seems to me to be denying them access to us in a way that has such grave potential to compromise us.