Airport security - waste of time?

I recently flew AA from Orlando to Miami to Dominican Republic. I put my
small pocket knife in my check-in luggage. Upon arival, I could not find it
and assumed it had been taken out of the checked luggage. When I got home to
Florida I unpacked my carry-on backpack and there it was. It had been
screened at least 4 times as I passed through security, and it was never
confisciated, or even apparently noticed. So much for security.



"Geoff Miller" wrote in message
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Matt writes:

It's a no win situation for the TSA. They have no choice
but to try and defend against tactics that have worked in
the past and try to predict tactics that might be tried in
the future. I would rather have them error [sic] on the
side of caution.


So would I. To that end, I'd like to see them quit screwing
around with this politically correct random-search idiocy
and instead, search each and every passenger who's of Arab
descent, who has an Arab name, or has Middle Eastern features.
If the Arab community and the liberals don't like that, too
bad. The stakes are too high to let policies like this be
dictated by cravenness or political expediency.



Geoff

--
"If patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels, then
environmentalism is the current refuge of totalitarians."
-- Bob Jackson

Well.....I guess we should just take down all the security screening
checkpoints then. While we're at it, lets fire all the police officers
since a lot of crimes are never solved.

Matt

"CLK" wrote in message
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I recently flew AA from Orlando to Miami to Dominican Republic. I put my
small pocket knife in my check-in luggage. Upon arival, I could not find
it
and assumed it had been taken out of the checked luggage. When I got home
to
Florida I unpacked my carry-on backpack and there it was. It had been
screened at least 4 times as I passed through security, and it was never
confisciated, or even apparently noticed. So much for security.

(Geoff Miller) wrote in message ...

There's a lot of denial among the Left about stuff like
this. As they do in so many other contexts, the liberals
tend to confuse possibility with likelihood.

Sort of like the possibility of Saddam having WMD versus
the likelihood?

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message ...
"Roger B." wrote in message
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"Steve" wrote"
Excerpts from "Ask the Pilot: Everything You Need to
Know About Air Travel," by Patrick Smith
snip

Which reminds of a joke that's making the rounds about
Security arresting a math teacher for being a member of
the Al-Ge-Bra organization, distinguished by its fondness
for steely-edged compasses and indecipherable x-y code.
[Rog']


Sadly people are just stupid enough to go for that.

There was a situation here in the UK when
a hospital doctor had her house firebombed because
a would be vigilante didnt know the difference
between a paedotrician and a paedophile

Keith

How about the case long ago where somebody started to chuck
throwing stars at people after watching some kung-fu movies?
Ever wonder why your kids watched a show titled Teenage
Mutant *Hero* Turtles in the UK, while it was named
Teenage Mutant *Ninja* Turtles in the US.............