Originally Posted by hedur
hello.
i have been lurking here for a while (posted a few times) but mostly just enjoy reading the insightful posts about flying and even learning some new tips to make travelling easier/more enjoyable. i have tried (and succeeded till now) to stay out of any heated security discussions, even though i do have some opinions. but i really must say something now.
do you really mean what you wrote, magexpect? i'm not trying to be disrespectful in any way (i promise) but i find it really hard to believe that 9/11 happened so long ago that you don't remember that PEOPLE DIED. a lot of people. are their families just paranoid? is the govt. now paranoid for wanting to keep it from happening again? you (and most others on this board as far as i can tell) may see dozens of inconsistencies and problems with security but i think most people in this country expected there to be other attacks on us by now and IT HASN'T HAPPENED.
now here's my question. could this fact be due at all (even a liitle bit??) to the new, time consuming, annoying, oftentimes inconsistent, and frustrating security that was put in place?
(of couse this question is for anyone not just magexpect)
thanks for reading.
Hello hedur,
Yes, I meant what I said. I did not mean it disrespectfully to anyone, especially since I knew some of the victims of 9/11.
You just cannot protect yourself from every danger lurking. 9/11 was a dreadful event as well as the dozens of other terrorist attacks that happened in the world, be it in England, France, Italy, Kenya, Yemen or where ever.
What we are now experiencing in things security is a joke. I have lived with security people for the last twenty years in all kinds of situations. I have talked with a lot of them about airport security. The risks are as high as they were before. The system has so many faults that anybody determined can come through and pull something similar again.
The most efficient would be sealed cockpit doors. That would prevent a lot as far as possible terrorist passengers would be concerned.
Does this enormous apparatus checking your ID twenty times as well as your ticket buying habits prevents anything? I'll answer with a definite no. This is just the beginning of an infringement on your freedom of movement, liberties and an unsufferable birth of a police state with very dark aims, unknown at present.
One has to be watchful, yes, but not paranoid.