<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by 1K wannabe:
I really wish all the thousands of people in their cars and on the subways each day were screened as well. Any one of them could have a bomb and kill thousands more. After all, driving or riding the subway is a privilege, not a right and I think doing either gives implied consent to be thoroughly searched. The same goes with walking down the street or shopping in stores. Neither of these is a right, rather a privilege and it would seem that the same implied consent is given that one be searched before stepping on a sidewalk or entering a store. Further, I live in a multi-unit building. Any person here could be a terrorist. Renting and property ownership are privileges, not rights and each person, I believe, gives implied consent to be searched before he or she enters the building. Dozens of lives are at stake. </font>
Here in the UK you can be stopped and searched just about anywhere, even Harrods were searching bags a few years back. You can't search or screen everybody going about their daily business and some people seem to think that if you can't check everyone then don't have security anywhere. Maybe a few more deaths will convince people about their vulnerability. Wasn't there a passenger recently who tried to storm an El Al flight deck with a pocket knife he'd managed to carry on board ?. The same sort of knives that passengers STILL turn up at airports with. He slipped through the net so I'm certain El Al will be stopping all security screening, after all if they didn't stop him why bother with others, just wait till they get on board and then deal with it !!
Nigel
[This message has been edited by beergut (edited 12-04-2002).]