Originally Posted by
wijomas
Do you think if the TSA wasn't in place, there would be as little attempts against aircraft as there are now? If there were no security personnel at airports whatsoever, not only would we have terrorists with bombs on planes, we'd have people with severe mental disturbances causing all kinds of havoc.
No one is suggesting
no security, just effective security which the TSA cannot provide. Stop with the false choices questions; the options aren't just (a) the TSA or (b) no security at all. There is option (c) which would be effective security, but not the TSA.
And people with mental problems have already caused problems on planes (remember the bipolar guy who got naked on the US Airways flight and went crazy?). And you also can't prove that the TSA is effective by saying that there have been no terrorist attacks since its inception; by that logic, the pre-9/11 security was effective for decades because there were no terrorist attacks.
Originally Posted by
wijomas
No agency will ever be completely effective. But something is better than nothing.
Again, no one is suggesting nothing. Everyone here agrees we need something-- just not the ineffective TSA. Have you read anywhere on this forum that we should have no security whatsoever? Pleas link us to those posts.
Originally Posted by
wijomas
I'm all open to hear proposals that will make transport 100% secure, and completely invisible to the normal traveller.
So then read some of the proposals that have been posted on this forum before and find fault with them.
How about using ETD which are cost-effective and detect explosives instead of nude-o-scope machines which are expensive and can't detect explosives? The technology would be less invasive, more security and cost-effective and faster than the nude-o-scopes. We also wouldn't have to remove our shoes because they will have been ETD'd (so they don't have explosives) and gone through the WTMD (so they don't have weapons in them) leaving them with no need to go through the x-ray machine (which doesn't detect explosives, by the way).
What about two-view x-ray machines to see baggage in better detail. Not only would it be able to spot smaller threats, but it would speed things up because we would not have to remove our laptops like we do now.
What about screening cargo? Employees?
We have put forth several ideas that are less invasive and more effective yet you insist that we want "no security" at all. Why is that?