So, Last Night I Was Thinking About How to Solve the TSA Problems.

by Little Miss Attila on December 30, 2009

Then it hit me: let’s unionize the workers there: that always creates new efficiencies and encourages out-of-the-box thinking.

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Joe December 30, 2009 at 8:40 am: Comment by Little Miss Attila/Joy W. McCann on 12/30 @ 8:58 am #

We shouldn’t need the full-body scans, if we’d just use a bit of Israeli-style profiling.

And add people to the Do Not Fly list when warranted, rather than the TIDE list.

El Al and Israeli’s internal airlines do not do anything half assed. Trust me, if they could do full body scans they would (and I suspect they may doing it now). I got questioned once for twenty minutes for flying from Eilat to Tel Aviv (I was in good humor and understood why they had to do it, but it was serious and time consuming). They do not merely selectively profile, they check everyone and then selectively profile those identified as a potential greater threat.

Israel faces a unique threat. I had a Danish friend who shipped a new Volvo through Haifa–Israeli security completely disassembed and reassembled the vehicle in about 6 hours (he said they did an amazing job although one of the panels did squeak a little afterwards). He was not on any threat list (he was an ex pat engineer coming to work), they were just not taking chances. But even if we wanted to do that level of security, we could not, the massive numbers of travelers and cargo prevents it. Our security situation is not as bad as Israel’s, yet, but it is definitely getting there. We need to be creative with random checks, profiling, better technology, and a TSA that is less about being mall cops with attitude/union demands and more about being a serious and professional law enforcement force.

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Joe December 30, 2009 at 8:42 am: Incompatano really needs to go back to Arizona and work on her tennis game.

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Joe December 30, 2009 at 10:55 am: If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?

What right wing nutjob said this? Oh, scratch the ~~right~~ wing part.

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