Originally Posted by Cholula
So how does this equate to your contention that a teacher can be taught in 2 weeks to catch all possible terrorists?
Do they look for people who appear to be "out of place" and, when asking for ID's, grab those that are "flustered and combative"?? How about those terrorists who are cool, calm and professional?? How does your teacher catch them?
Enlighten us, please, with how your airport identification of "all possible terrorists" would work.
I'm not saying that profiling wouldn't be helpful in the security process. But I think you are oversimplifying the situation.
I may be oversimplifying, but not by alot. I pick retired teachers because I think it would be hard to get american young people to do the job, but what you need are people who work with people, are stable and part of normal society, and are just slightly above average intellegence.
try this - watch at an airport one day. take a look at most of the people, the business people, the families traveling with kids, the backpackers. the vast majority of people fall into a pattern like that. then there are those that have a small "irregularity". the vast mojority of those people are perfectly normal, but the smugglers and the terrorists usually end up falling in that small group of people who are "different". and I am not talking about racial profiling, I am talking about the backpacker who has the brand new backpack when all the others have old ones, the businessman wearing a suit with sneakers, the young woman in the ususually long dress, and most importantly, people who look emotionally out of place.
unfourtunatly, there is a huge amount of literature about this type of stuff. and, it just so happens I have a bit of expereince in this field, myself.
the calm and cool terrorist exists in movies and books only. a person walking into an attack, or getting ready to blow himself or herself up stands out of place, and if you are looking for them, you will find them