[myknowledge]

Carafano's article is right on the money about Flight 253, Abdul Mutallab and U.S. airport and airline security in general.

This needs a Ping List instead of a Barf Alert.

[ntmxx]

None of these steps make anyone safer or solve the primary problem, as long as the enemy is able to lurk in the shadows. When America decides to visit this human debris in their homes and neighborhoods killing their relatives 12 cousins deep anytime they pop their heads up to threaten, hurt or kill an American interest, this will come to a screeching halt; for respect is earned not just handed out to those that demand it!

[pnh102]

I read that the panties bomber was able to get on the plane with the help of a buddy working airport “security” in Amsterdam. None of these proposals address this.

[Hank Kerchief]

Ah yes, oppress the American citizen more, that will make them safer. Just keep telling them they are in imminent danger of terrorist attack and you'll be able totally enslave them.

You are seven times more likely to drown than your likely to be a victim of a terrorist attack.

Odds of being killed in an airline terrorist attact is one in 10,408,947. The odds of being killed by a lightening strike is one in 500,000.

Mencken was right. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." It sure is working.

[GunnyBob]

For additional “insider” information on the war on terror, much of which you will not have heard elsewhere, I invite all Freepers to visit and participate in The Terrorism and Intelligence Blog at http://terrorismandintelligence.blogspot.com/

Gunny, out

[meatloaf]

Real ID opens up the state DMV resources as a channel for terrorism. When employees of the Social Security Administration have been caught selling Individuals’ SS info for a buck a name in the past and criminals routinely buy actual individual medicare info for bogus billings, the lesson is clear.

You can’t trust the data in any federal or quasi-federal database to not be compromised. Another example is state DMV employees providing licenses to illegals. Add the recent disclosure of the TSA security manual and it should be obvious that Real ID is a Real Bad Idea if for no other reason than it will provide a false sense of security.

At some point someone will show up with a Real ID that is obviously real. Human nature being what it is, a lazy screener even if they have a hunch will allow the holder entry simply because they have a Real ID that shows up in the database.

FWIW, don’t forget the individual that hacked the Kalifornia database and issued himself a real Kalifornia driver’s license. Kalifornia couldn’t find it ... because it was in their database.

Real ID is a Real Bad Idea.