TSA Issues Tips For Checked Bags

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

"Perhaps the most surprising recommendation for a federal security agency: Luggage should not be locked. Otherwise, security officials who need to check inside the bag may have to break the locks, the TSA said."

"Slepian said some machines falsely identify up to 35 percent of bags as having explosives and therefore may need to be opened and searched by hand. "Certain food products -- certainly peanut butters and jellies and chocolate bars -- have the same density as plastic explosives," he said."

"Slepian had this advice: "You're going to need an engineer to pack your luggage."

Well, 35% false positives are better than doing nothing - think of the children.

Everyone in the USA demanded better security after September 11. TSA is giving it to you, and now you complain.

Any security (even ineffective measures like these) are better than having one plane blown up.

The world changed after September 11 - just get used to it. Since you're going to be violated, might as well lie back and enjoy it.

And on and on.

I have been trying to explain that very sentiment for god knows how long now, but there are people with agendas that won�t listen. Be it political or personal, their agenda affects their better judgment. Glad to see someone else out there is grounded.

Perhaps you are unacquainted with the concept of sarcasm. Or were you trying to be clever?



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You can't honestly believe we are any safer now, aboard an aircraft than we were

dupe

[This message has been edited by screenerx (edited Nov 24, 2003).]

Spiff,

I know full well that people go off the deep end for legal reasons.

Here let put it this way...

The passenger's bag alarms and must be searched. In the process of the search they find heroin and just let him go. He got through the WTMD with the needles. (which shouldn't surprise because shoes have much more metal and go through some airports)

He enters the bathroom and shots up. He's brought the stuff to calm himself for the flight but instead it just makes it worse. While on the plane he finally can't take it and someone is killed.

Now he isn't killed but restrained and when they finally land and he is turned over to officers. He admits what he did but that TSA caught the stuff but let it go and this gets to the victims family.

The families position, is yes this could happen anyday but the fact is the TSA had a chance to do something and didn't!


Do you think that TSA could be responsible at this point?

This isn't a question about why we should search for drugs and such, it just came to me reading this thread. Thought I would lay it out there.