Flying with fear: The future of air security

[BillyC]

I hated flying even before 911.......... I guess the Government sponsored "terrorist win" I wont fly no more.

They hate our freedom so the logical step is for our governments to take it away from us ....right?

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1220484.ece

[firsty]

a friend of mine suggested the hyper-opposite of what is actually going to happen:

http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=7837

"It's called Take Yo Chances Airline. The concept is simple. You pay your money and you get on the plane with anything you choose to bring with you--guns, knives, metal detectors, bombs, box cutters, hair gel, anything.

I'm sure it would be an instant commercial success. Cheap fare. No arriving at the airport three hours early. No waiting in lines. No humiliating cavity searches. You could actually use your laptop or your lip-gloss in flight. People would flock to this airline.

I'm sure you would get the odd nut-case who would want to call attention to himself by blowing the plane up, but hey, they could do the same thing in any shopping mall or stadium and get better body count. TYC Airlines would actually be safer because the terrorists wouldn't be the only passengers on board who were armed. "

clearly, it falls into the category of unreasonable search and seizure to subject every one of the millions of daily passengers to these high-tech invasions of privacy simply to root out the stray suicide bomber.

to think that we can create a world where nobody is murdered generates an incredible waste of resources. and the way in which the western world is "fighting the war on terror" only breeds more terrorists, making it slightly more likely to be the victim of an airborne terrorist attack than winning the idiot tax.

[Kat Kanning]

I'd fly on Take Yo Chances Airline! 

[Michael Fisher]

LOL!

Sounds like a Somali airline. Business was booming over there prior to the Islamic attempt at a takeover. Now they're banning guns. 

[Minsk]

Easy tweak: run smaller airplanes. What sort of ineffective terrorist is going to go to the effort of sneaking through a quick security screening to kill fifty people?

I think I gassed that many after my last trip to Taco Bell...