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To: justshutupandtakeit
You could opine all you want about the necessity for such a program, the effectiveness of the program or its employees' lack of qualifications but an outright, obvious lie will not go unchallenged. And trying to change the subject from the outright lie won't work either.

In other words, you are afraid to answer the following question, because it proves that the 50,000 airport screeners are a waste of TAXPAYER and AIRLINE PASSENGER money.

What's more important to airline safety? 50,000 federal employees rooting through the underwear of airline passengers, or real security doors on cockpits that prevent hijackers from gaining entry to the cockpit?

72 posted on 01/29/2003 2:19:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
That question is a straw man that is not the issue. No one would claim going thru old ladies drawers is a substitute for proper doors. Though you are trying to obscure the fact the hijackers got into the cockpits by killing passengers, crew etc. And the doors were opened for them just as they might have been had the doors been as secure as bank vault doors.

I note that this is a change of topic from the outrageous and false one about screener's being unemployable morons.
In fact, I would wage that very few IF ANY of the screeners hired were unemployed at the time of hire.

What would cockpit doors have done to prevent the shoe bomber? You think there should be no passenger security or prohibited articles?
73 posted on 01/29/2003 2:49:08 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit
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