Originally Posted by
halls120
That is simply wrong, at least with regard to your apparent belief that TSA is an equal part of the "team" that ensures aviation safety.
That’s your belief, and you are more than welcome to keep it as long as you like. The nice thing about belief’s is that one does not need anything to keep them, not even facts.
Tell me, Ron, do you believe lax gate security led to the 9/11 hijackings?
No. Lack of foresight, lack or procedure, lack of imagination. None of those are the fault of the screeners, but all are the prevue of the agency that was overseeing their work. I know who that was, do you?
Oh, come on. The "risks are real and ongoing?" Just what risks do you face?
In the simplest definition of my job, I am a human bomb detector. Not an inherently safe job. But if we put it into a perspective that is current, we deal with large numbers of people we do not know on a daily basis. Any of them could be nuts, could be carrying weapons, needles, knives, clubs, germs (N1H1, or worse), or any of a vast number of dangerous things. The risks are very real, and go on through our entire work day.
Nor do you understand your place - and that of TSA's - in the "playbook."
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I’m not responsible for your ignorance. You have much to learn grasshopper, things that we cannot teach you.