Originally Posted by
Wally Bird
They wouldn't. Which is why everyone is thoroughly screened. Supposedly. A person on the list who is not armed and is not carrying explosives is not a security threat. Why is that so hard to understand ?
I disagree. Atta and his cohorts orchestrated several dry runs, presumably sans anything that was banned at that time (yeah, I'm familiar with the whole box cutter argument. Their mere actions represented a security threat, one which they exploited quite spectacularly. Checking IDs is indeed a valid security measure. The method by which it's currently implemented, with the lack of a real time means to compare names to a database, certainly doesn't enhance security by any stretch of the imagination.
TB