Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
As with the colonial days, it is the behavior of the government that has turned many against it. I think American bureaucrats are very insular, unwilling to consider that any kind of response to threats is possible other than what they have thought up themselves.
You have an interesting point. Are the functionaries that run the TSA blind to theories from outside of their little circle? I honestly can’t answer that, and to be even more honest neither can anyone posting to TS/S. Sure they are going to have their opinions, just as I have mine, but none of us can be sure. Personally, I believe that they are taking from other agencies what they believe is the best practices and leave the chaff on the side. BDO’s for example. Israel uses the same type of screening, and while here the Israeli version is given very high marks the US version earns nothing but derision (blind bias at its best IMO).
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
I wonder if TSO's even travel. I wonder if they get screened abroad and think mockingly "this will never stop the terrorists". As with so much that is done with America, ingenuity does not begin and end at America's borders. All over the world, governments are doing preventive work. Where else but America is it leading to citizen rebellion? You want to blame that on the CITIZENS? And America has one of the most HATED governments in the world. That, too, has something to do with how the people who have chosen government jobs behave.
People hate power, they hate prosperity, they hate the freedoms we cherish. If we have one of the most hated government on the planet as you suggest, then why is the USA having to deal with a massive level of illegal immigration? Why does it seem that everyone wants to come here? Why are people not leaving the USA and going to other countries to emigrate? Sorry, that argument just does not hold water. It’s called jealousy.
Isn’t that one of the 7 deadly sins?