Originally Posted by AArlington
Then maybe TSA should relook its hiring standards.
I dont believe so, It is very difficult to get into TSA.
Not necessarily; but eyebrows may justifiably rise in these situations, and given other variable inputs, they may get the secondory. Fair? No. But the country of origin critera makes much more sense than a one way ticket criteria.
Not quite! If you pick someone out based on where they appear to be from, you are racial profiling. This is a no no. If someone buys a one way and the get the full service lane then you are basing your secondary screening on a behavior.
Of course, if we had adaquate screening initially, there wouldn't be the need for secondary.
No argument here!
What airlines did they blow up? You've named two white american terrorists. Can you name any more? Screening may not catch every home-grown, anti-government, anti-abortion, anti-whatever nut; but that doesn't mean we should overlook the fact that a majority of aviation related terrorists happen to be from a particular region of the world and happen to be (in name only) followers of a particular religion.
Thats true but you cant say that because a certain group of people used airplanes as weapons that airplanes are going to be the only choice of retalitation that they use. The opposite holds true also, just because someone uses anthrax in envelopes doesnt mean that they wont switch to airplanes. I could name other American terrorists but I seemed to have misplaced my watchlist.
