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Looks like the thread derailed a bit !

I take 80-100 flights a year for work, I am all for the security. I have never had been patted down in anyway that would be considered unappropriate or sexual in anyway. My home airport was the first to get the full body scanners back in may, again never saw the big issues with these. I have had a few people in front of me request to go through the metal detector instead of the scanner or pat down, they were denied and one even left without taking the flight.

Again , I dont understand what the big deal is , most of the the people complaining are people that never fly anyway. I look at it this way, put all the people that say we dont need security on one plane and I will ride on the other.

When I worked for Paramount Pictures, after 911, the studio was convinced that it was the perfect target for an attack. Maybe they thought that killing Tom Cruise would generate bigger headlines than dropping the World Trade Center. For about six months security there was ridiculous. Everybody's mail was opened. They even painted mock-ups of LA police cars to park outside the gates to convince bombers we were well protected. After a year it all blew over. You could drive a truck onto the lot with just a wave from the guard. I'm a little sensitive to this since I worked on the 30th floor of the WTC in the 80's for the law firm White and Case.

greazy wrote:Looks like the thread derailed a bit !


Again , I dont understand what the big deal is , most of the the people complaining are people that never fly anyway. I look at it this way, put all the people that say we dont need security on one plane and I will ride on the other.

I don't think it derailed at all. Matter of fact it's right on point. It's about terrorism and how the world works.

Most of the people complaining are people who don't fly? How do you figure? How can someone complain about something they haven't had happen to them?

Who has better experience preventing airline terrorism than El Al? Why aren't we following El Al's proven methods? Check out this interview with the former head of security for El Al:
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-11/opinion/yeffet.air.security.israel_1_airport-security-isaac-yeffet-el-al?_s=PM:OPINION

My wife pointed out that for the past thousand years women have already had to put up with strange men groping them in public places.

arf wrote:My wife pointed out that for the past thousand years women have already had to put up with strange men groping them in public places.

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