[boxerblues]

Hope he has to pay for all the extra work

[blackdog]

Nobody will ever overtake another American Commercial Airliner if it's full of passengers. Americans are not going to sit there and go thru that again.

The next event would be on a charter flight or on a cargo carrier if they choose to do so.

[Pro-Bush]

He got his point across, I hope he is happy now. Goes to show that the TSA has a long way to go.

[JoeFromSidney]

Officials say it's unclear whether the items placed on the Southwest planes ever went through security. Investigators have interviewed passengers and crew on the New Orleans plane but also had not ruled out the possibility that airline or airport workers had placed the bags on the planes.

For crying out loud, they pat down grannies trying to get on the plane, but they completely ignore "airline or airport workers." What kind of security is that?

[COBOL2Java]

The TSA was created after the attacks, with the goal of replacing privately employed airport security workers with better-trained and higher-paid government employees.

This line is the biggest laugh of all. For the most part, it's the same people as before, only now they have a nice cushy government job with official looking uniforms so they can push grandma around any way they damn well please, and since they're now government, they can't be fired.

[mykdsmom]

One of our own...NC Ping!

[Vermonter]

Warning to anyone who attempts what I did on a recent flight.

I had some spare time to do some browsing at a mall before my flight and found a package of bungee cords with the old style ends (wire versus the clunky plastic ones they use now) So, I bought a package and threw them in my carry on suitcase

Once I got pulled aside after the Xray machine I found out that bungee cords could be used to tie someone up, so I had to go back to the airline check in counter and check my carry on through to my destination or have the bungees confiscated.

Sheeeesh!

[Rome2000]

A 20-year-old North Carolina man was being questioned by the FBI in connection with the incidents, according to a congressional official and a senior law enforcement official, both of whom spoke on condition of anonymity

I at least can tolerate the low grade now FEDERAL MORONS that I interact with as long as they are pleasant and discuss such weighty issues as the "Atkins diet",but the reality is that WITHOUT PROFILING, THERE IS NO SECURITY.

This remains beyond the grasp of the SOB's in charge.

IT IS CRIMINALY NEGLIGENT!

HIRE EL-AL CONSULTANTS OR BE SUED!!!!!!!!!