Originally Posted by
gsoltso
To say that it hasn't happened does not mean that it isn't a simple and cost effective way to make an attack. You can continue to put up the same statement that nothing has happened, and it will not mean anything, there is an easy viable method of attack that the agency is screening for now.
If it's easy and viable, why were there no shoe-based attacks between Reid and August 2006?
If it's easy and viable, why are there no shoe-based attacks in countries that don't have a mandatory shoe carnival?
It could be that with the increased awareness of the type of attack they thought that with the relatively simple act of requiring all shoes to be screened, it could put a huge dent in the ability of the method to be used.
Then why does the presence or absence of a shoe carnival have no impact on the use of shoes as delivery devices?
Why were there no shoe-based attacks on US flights between Reid and August 2006, when the shoe carnival was not mandatory?
Comparing other nations to the US is a non starter, most other nations have a different awareness of terrorism than we do. Most other countries (maybe with the exception of Great Britain, they are pretty hated worldwide too) are not even in the same boat as the US when it comes to opinions.
This is a profoundly ignorant and offensive statement. Most countries have experienced terrorism, and on a scale comparable to or greater than in the US. And yet: No shoe carnivals, no shoe-based attacks on aviation.
I wouldn't mind having to screen every single person that enters the sterile area with no exceptions (but I think at this point, due to budgetary constraints that is something that would be miserable to implement and the people working there have had a clearance, and in todays government structure clearances are a way of life and an accepted method of clearance - not arguing right or wrong, just information purposes).
Until you do this, every single thing you do when you put on your smurf shirt and your tin badge is completely and utterly useless.