Originally Posted by PhlyingRPh

Nope.


Nope.


Of course it's not proof, but it's a reasonable conclusion to draw based on what we do know. May I ask what proof do you have of your assertion below...



I base my educated and intellectual guess on the fact that every minor and insignificant security alert is presented as a win in this broad war of terror you are fighting. To date, after ten years of this, I can think of hundreds of formal complaints of unnecessary security alerts resulting from dumbasses seeing someone they think is suspicious that I have been privy to, and possibly thousands discussed in various live and online forums or listed on the websites of various civil rights groups. Add to this my own experiences and those of others I know of who are who have been removed from aircraft but not filed complaints with a civil rights group and I think it becomes fairly obvious that the vast majority of these alerts that arise from the logic challenged segment of the population are false alarms.

On the rare occasion that someone has seen something suspicious and it has actually turned out to be a good catch, the media has been all over it. However, I recall no more than a handful of these and most of those turned out to be nonsense too, once analysed by LE or the courts.




That is your opinion - one I disagree with vehemently.



Aha. Statistics!

Presumably, you are perfectly happy with the number of people killed in road accidents every year. How does that compare with the type of air disaster you appear to be concerned about?