Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
Precisely why the LY model is a complete non-starter in the US and elsewhere. It requires intelligent, highly-trained and committed practitioners and while it's possible (but unlikely) there are TSA screeners who fit that description, there is no chance there are enough of them. IOW it is simply not scalable, unless a completely new paradigm were adopted - one in which airport screening is based on carefully selected and very well paid personnel. Does that sound remotely like the TSA ? Even Argenbright, Wackenhut etc. who would probably do better than the federal 'agents' fall far short of the ideal mark.
Please wait for a moment and allow me to put on a heavy raincoat and a helmet to protect myself from the tomatoes and bricks that will come my way.
It sounds like a job for Blackwater.
[INK quickly ducks behind a wall.]
Shouts from behind the wall: There are not enough of them to cover every airport.
Peeking out now.
The skills required to do this are well-know and documented. It requires a certain, shall we say, mental capacity and reasoning ability. There may just not be enough people that have it that are willing to work as clerks at the airports. Most of them are already doing something very important at high levels making lots of money. They are engineers, designers, programmers, CEO's, operators of complex machinery, analysts, physicians, attorneys, entrepreneurs and other highly paid specialists.
They could do it, they just won't.