Posted on 01/05/2010 7:46:08 AM PST by Shellybenoit
On its website, the TSA talks about the 20 layers of Security it has put in place to protect us from being blown from the sky by a guy with a bomb in his briefs:
We use layers of security to ensure the security of the traveling public and the Nation's transportation system. Because of their visibility to the public, we are most associated with the airport checkpoints that our Transportation Security Officers operate. These checkpoints, however, constitute only one security layer of the many in place to protect aviation. Others include intelligence gathering and analysis, checking passenger manifests against watch lists, random canine team searches at airports, federal air marshals, federal flight deck officers and more security measures both visible and invisible to the public. Each one of these layers alone is capable of stopping a terrorist attack. In combination their security value is multiplied, creating a much stronger, formidable system. A terrorist who has to overcome multiple security layers in order to carry out an attack is more likely to be pre-empted, deterred, or to fail during the attempt.
Under those reassuring words, the TSA posts a colorful graph showing each layer:
See the layer all the way on the bottom? Passengers? While the passengers should be vigilant, and self preservation is a great motivator, in the end, the TSA is relying on Amateurs to save the day.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was named in a file of people based in Britain who had made contact with radical Muslim preachers. The file was sent to the US authorities in 2008.
Well, what do we need the TSA for?
Let me carry my 1911 on flights and I can guarantee we’ll be a lot safer than what the morons at TSA dream up. I fly a lot and every time I come upon security at the airports I am thankful that I have a degree in special education because that is what the TSA is manned by. Most are bottom feeding slugs who, if it weren’t for TSA, would be asking if you “want fries with that”?
Oh, cool, so WE are part of the Security System? Where’s MY paycheck, TSA?
If I work for TSA, then I need tools: a taser gun, a gun, duct tape, handcuffs, and permission/ authority to profile.
What happens when one of those layers, the aircraft crew, sees something suspicious like the "Flying Imams" on US Airways who requesting unnecessary seat belt extensions for some reason and refused to sit in their assigned seats but instead spread through the cabin. They were removed from the plane, but then put back on the plane. The flight crew refused to fly them so had to be replaced too. Is that part of this well oiled machine of air security?
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