<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Mountain Trader:
SF Joe-
Boy, are we sorry.
Sorry first about your cigar cutter. That must be a real heartbreaker, and to have it taken by some minimum wage person. Gee!
Sorry that on September 12 they didn't have an iron-clad new security system that would ferret out the risk and not inconvenience you and me.
Sorry that it may take mistakes-hey, it may take lot of them-to get this right. What a Gyp! Of course, it took almost 3 years to get from Pearl Harbor to D-Day but they didn't pay our high tax rate, did they?
I'm sure the most sorry are the widows, widowers and orphans of the Sept 11 attacks, who would give up ciagr cutters and just about anything else to try-not assure because life has no assurances-but just try, to avoid another loss of life.
Sorry to ask for a little sacrifice and to put up with a learning curve.
Sorry you were put out.
Sorry indeed.</font>
I do not think that there is a person on this board (and probably in most of the world)who are NOT sorry for the widows, widowrs and orphans. We all wish that proper security was in place years ago.
The FAA has bee and still is an advocate for airline profits and not the flying public!
MT, you always seem to post in a sarcastic tone. I am sure that even YOU understand that 3 hour lines in CVG, and taken cigar clippers and eyeglass screw drivers is bull****. I am sure that even YOU must know that there are holes in airport security that a truck could be driven through! And I am sure that even YOU know that what happened on 9-11 was a result of a system failure that had been going on and getting worse for years.
How could congress in their infinate wisdom set time limits on things that even the shoeshine boys at the airport knew were impossible to meet? Yeah, we will make all luggage be checked in 2 months. Duh, what about the equipment needed cannot even be manufactured for years.
MT, you jumped on me because I was unhappy with security and even more unhappy with the bull**** that we, the flying public, have to put up with. You said that I should give a solution. I don't have solutions. Smarter people than me are working on that.
Let the idiots in congress and the FAA listen to the real security experts and follow through on real solutions. Not fluff to make it look like something is being done JUST TO GET NON FLYERS BACK INTO THE AIR. Well, it aint going to happen. The non flyers can read and watch the news also.
I am not starting a flame war. I think, and hope, that I am being reasonable. Cigar cutters and 1/4 inch screw drivers being confiscated by idiots that cant even speak English will not fix the broken system.
We have been told for years that cash sales of one way tickets will trigger alarms. It didnt. We were told that airlines were screaning everyone with access to planes. They were not (otherwise how could case cutters be found taped to seat bottoms?)
We are being harrased because we are visable. If the airlines want to survive, they have to wake up and take security into their own hands. Uncle Sam sure ain't gonna cut it
