It does look like that people who work in the airline industry would get a good profile background check of the FBI, and have a ‘pilot’s license’ and go through the quik check lane and get aboard without the same fuss all of the other Tom, Dick and Harry’s have to put up with. Personally I don’t feel any safer after they search nuns, my 92 year old mother with a steel knee, and treat her like some Mid Eastern Male Adult with an accent carrying the Koran, and chanting in Arabic something about Allah. TIME TO DO SOME PROFILE CHECK, like they do in Israel, their airport is one of the safest.
I’m all for profiling. In the natural world it’s called survival skills.
TSA is useless. Their own check inspections only spot 28% of the test guns the inspectors attempt to pass through TSA inspection.
I once boarded a flight at a major airport while travelling with a retired airline pilot on what is called a “buddy pass/ticket/whatever”.
The TSA Person decided to make me open every box holding every roll of 120 roll film I had in my luggage and camera case. Not the large boxes alone, each roll and then take each roll out of the plastic wrapper, too.
What this recycled ghetto trash didn’t seem to grasp is that if I had been smuggling plastic explosives I could have wrapped the C-4 inside the paper cover on the roll film. She was simply making life difficult for a white passenger and the old white pilot, and she made that clear, egregiously clear.
Worst of all, some of the other pilots knew my friend, as did some of the TSA persons. Not one of them said anything to MS Piggy because that would have exposed them to the charge of “racism motivated actions against a person in two protected classes (black & female).
Were America to simply level an Arab city every time a plane was attacked, the Moslim world would immediately understand and such attacks would cease.
Or, sooner or later, there would be no more Arab cities