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Updated: November 17th, 2006 11:02 AM PDT
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"Make Air Travel Safer by Profiling Behavior, Not Race"
Eben Kaplan
The Baltimore Sun
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Planning on flying this Thanksgiving? Expect some company; the Air Transport Association anticipates that 25 million Americans will take to the skies during the holiday, a 3 percent increase from last year.
Complicating matters are new rules requiring carry-on liquids and gels to be placed in 3-ounce containers and sealed inside a quart-sized zip-top baggie. If my last airport experience is typical, confused, water-bottle-bearing passengers will hold up screening lines as they are relieved of contraband.
Americans say they're willing to endure long lines if they make us safer, but how much safer are we? Since the foiled liquid-explosives plot in London, we've all heard how our current passenger screening methods are insufficient. Such reports often call for new gadgets, from "puffers" that detect explosive residue on a person or a bag to backscatter X-rays that trace the contours of a person's body in search of foreign objects. These systems could help improve security, but they don't guarantee it.
Evidence suggests that rather than fixate solely on keeping harmful objects off of planes, our government should invest in efforts to keep harmful people from boarding."
"Planning on flying this Thanksgiving?
Yes I am, flying from Frankfurt to London. Sance I am flying to England I will have to submit to the same silly regs that everyone back home has to contend with.
If I were flying to Rome I wouldn't have to worry about it...