You do understand that the airlines are victims in all of this, don’t you?
Since the morning of September 11, 2001, the airline industry has been in crisis, just as the terrorists want.
I understand your qualms and your reluctance to fly, and I feel much the same way. I’m just saying that it’s not good for the country, the economy, or any of us.
And I don’t have any answers.
You do understand that the airlines are victims in all of this, don’t you?
Do you know that there is no federal regulation regarding the use of electronic devices on planes? That absurd rule is imposed by airlines, and could be ceased in a moment. (If electronic devices had any capability to interfere with navigation, they’d be banned on board.)
I absolutely do understand. But they need to know that they’re losing business because of the TSA. If we all pushed back, we could make them find a more reasonable method of security.
Like I said, they could do a credit check to find out if they need to worry about a particular individual. And even with identity theft, they could probably eliminate 99% of the pat-down nonsense we’re dealing with now.