Originally Posted by lianluo
Bart, thanks for your professional demeanor in these threads. I wish everyone here posted likewise, it's truly amazing to read such vitriol.
I wonder what they would do if suddenly put in charge of TSA? Oh, everything would run perfectly, I'm sure.
In fact, I AM interested in what folks who are so against TSA, and the hassles we experience while flying, believe should be done to prevent terrorist acts using aircraft. If you are so adamant, surely you have viable alternatives-or are you just full of hateful rhetoric?
Better use of technology to reduce intrusive searches and seizures (Fourth Amendment term of art) of Americans who are not reasonably suspected of involvement in criminal activity. If no alarming of WTMD, nothing suspicious by X-ray or other scanning instrument, and no bulges under clothing, then no further searches.
Better security at airports, with screening for ground crews and equipment similar to that required of passengers. After all, who has more access to the aircraft at an airport, the passengers or ground crew?
Screen cargo for contraband, especially explosives. Remember Lockerbie, Scotland? One unsuccessful goofball triggered the shoe carnival, but TSA/DHS/the feds ignore a method that has already destroyed airliners in flight.
How was that for alternatives without hateful rhetoric?