Originally Posted by
N1120A
Wow. I am simply dumbfounded by this. I guess we have come to expect anything from the Smurfy Gestapo, but really now? How stupid do they have to be to know that an airline pilot can, at any time, create destruction on a scale that would make 9/11 look like child's play. There is a reason we call it trusting them with our lives, because we do just that.
An airline pilot could be carrying an AK-47 and it wouldn't matter.
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I'm sure I will be verbally attacked for this, but, seriously, what??? Not you specifically, but do you want me to start posting links to various threads on this site where many of the people here hae said EVERYONE should be screened before they enter the sterile area? In fact, in one of MY OWN arguments as to why it was sort of pointless to screen flight crew, I pointed out they could fly the plane into a building - no weapon needed. Yet I was verbally attacked for suggesting that.
So why did all of you change your mind???? Please point out to me at what point all of your dropped the argument that everyone entering the sterile area needs to be screened, and started to argue that flight crew should exempt?
Or is the truth of the matter that no matter what TSA does, many of you will argue the opposite, even if it counters what you have said before?