Well looks like some here may get there wish. IMHO, for once, the DEMS are making more sense.
After the first incident with one of the these prev prohibited items, the Press will OWN El Presidente Bush.
FOlks always say never forget 9/11. Well this is a small dot to be connected at a later date.
http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=115373&format=text
Latest TSA rules ignore the basics
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Sunday, December 4, 2005
The new federal airport screening policies announced Friday contain some useful elements, but do not make the most needed improvement. And it’s a big mistake to let passengers bring small scissors and tools such as screwdrivers on airplanes.
The time saved in not confiscating scissors less than 4 inches long or wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers less than 7 inches long is intended to permit screeners to undertake new kinds of random searches and more extensive pat-down examinations and concentrate on detecting explosives, according to officials of the Transportation Security Administration.
Even though the Sept. 11 hijackers used box cutters to seize four airplanes, some experts believe small blades are no longer a threat because cockpit doors are now locked in flight.
Not so, say Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), who intend to introduce a bill to preserve the current list of items barred from the cabin.
The locked cockpit is equivalent to a “no-negotiations-with-hostage-takers” policy in non-aviation contexts. Bloody experience shows that hostage-takers frequently do not believe the policy will be carried out - or do not care. Hijackers might well believe pilots could be ordered to give in by their companies in response to the sound of executions relayed to the ground by cellphones.
“The pilots will be able to land the plane safely, but the aisles will be running with blood,” protested Corey Caldwell, spokesman for the Association of Flight Attendants.
Nonsuspicious passengers selected - randomly, it is said - for search will not know what’s coming under the new policy. One day their carry-on bags will be searched. The next time they may be asked to remove their shoes. Another time they might be “wanded” with a hand-held metal detector.
It’s smart to add unpredictability, but the searchers are still insisting on a random search for a nonrandom threat - a policy of foolish political correctness that will keep checking out harmless grandmothers in wheelchairs.
The real threat comes from adherents of a murderous fundamentalist Islam, far more likely to be young men from certain geographical areas than wheelchair granny. It is sheerest folly for the TSA to stay blindfolded to this threat.
After the first incident with one of the these prev prohibited items, the Press will OWN El Presidente Bush.
FOlks always say never forget 9/11. Well this is a small dot to be connected at a later date.
http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=115373&format=text
Latest TSA rules ignore the basics
By Boston Herald editorial staff
Sunday, December 4, 2005
The new federal airport screening policies announced Friday contain some useful elements, but do not make the most needed improvement. And it’s a big mistake to let passengers bring small scissors and tools such as screwdrivers on airplanes.
The time saved in not confiscating scissors less than 4 inches long or wrenches, pliers and screwdrivers less than 7 inches long is intended to permit screeners to undertake new kinds of random searches and more extensive pat-down examinations and concentrate on detecting explosives, according to officials of the Transportation Security Administration.
Even though the Sept. 11 hijackers used box cutters to seize four airplanes, some experts believe small blades are no longer a threat because cockpit doors are now locked in flight.
Not so, say Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), who intend to introduce a bill to preserve the current list of items barred from the cabin.
The locked cockpit is equivalent to a “no-negotiations-with-hostage-takers” policy in non-aviation contexts. Bloody experience shows that hostage-takers frequently do not believe the policy will be carried out - or do not care. Hijackers might well believe pilots could be ordered to give in by their companies in response to the sound of executions relayed to the ground by cellphones.
“The pilots will be able to land the plane safely, but the aisles will be running with blood,” protested Corey Caldwell, spokesman for the Association of Flight Attendants.
Nonsuspicious passengers selected - randomly, it is said - for search will not know what’s coming under the new policy. One day their carry-on bags will be searched. The next time they may be asked to remove their shoes. Another time they might be “wanded” with a hand-held metal detector.
It’s smart to add unpredictability, but the searchers are still insisting on a random search for a nonrandom threat - a policy of foolish political correctness that will keep checking out harmless grandmothers in wheelchairs.
The real threat comes from adherents of a murderous fundamentalist Islam, far more likely to be young men from certain geographical areas than wheelchair granny. It is sheerest folly for the TSA to stay blindfolded to this threat.