But BE, you are a security guy. (if you're the same Badeye from PB) You have a different attitude toward the whole situation. Obviously. You are more familiar with procedures behind the scenes than a reporter for the WSJ. You're certainly more familiar than a housewife or non-reg'lar traveller. This reporter can only report what she saw and experienced and was told. The average reader responds to what they have read. We can be alarmed. We can be confident that someone somewhere is doing something to protect us. Or we can be skeptical. And I suppose there are a number of other things we can be. But, you must admit that your airport security experience is not the same as your average Joe. Post 9/11.
Are there holes in our airport security? Should we fear? What should the average person do?
How about some passengers following these men to the toliets, waiting outside the doors, and checking out the stall after each one ? How about standing up with a camera and saying loudly to the other passengers, " Is everyone watching these guys ? " "They're acting wierd "
"Are there holes in our airport security? Should we fear? What should the average person do?"
First, yes I'm the same BE from PLN, banned from Lcom, banned from LP.....(grin)
There is no such thing as a "perfect defense". Doesn't matter if its a bank, a football team, or an airline, or airport. There will always be "holes", most of the time they are "unique".
Should we "fear"? I think that comes down to viewpoint. I don't fear anything that walks, as you probably know from my postings on other websites. Based on the statistics, I would say "fear" is not warranted on these lines, awareness is.
What should the average person do? Just as the author did, bring it to somebody's attention, and be prepared to do what you have to do if you are in a Flight 11 type scenario.
Life's one big "risk" at the end of the day. Sometime fear of "risk" keeps people from living their lives.
I'm not one of them.