"After Fallujah, How 'Bout Making The US Safe?"

[Bluebear]

by The Boyd Group - Aviation consulting and forecasting

The show goes on, friends. Yep, we can kick tush in Fallujah, Mosul, and a bunch of other places that have yet to discover indoor plumbing, but in that vast TV-Wasteland spreading roughly from Eastport, Maine, to San Diego, the terrorists could - if and when they wanted - have their way with us.

This past week, we've had more proof that the pack of clowns running Homeland Security couldn't protect this country from a enraged pack of Cub Scouts on a sugar-high. We'll leave out the incidents of security screening failures - they're becoming too common to bother with. It's a proven, incontrovertible fact that the quality of US airport screening is running on empty. But that's just the symptom of a major security disease. It's called complacency, with a high degree of political sleaze......(snip, examples)

Let's say it again: This entire Homeland Security system is a misfire. Somebody's going to get killed because losers like the FSD at Newark, not to mention a herd of other connected bozos, are running the show. Republicans say the right things (like, Mica calling the TSA a Soviet-style bureaucracy) but then hypocritically do nothing. Democrats eagerly cheer on the nincompoops running HSA and TSA, and want to pay them more for their "hard work."

The only reason we've not had another major attack - on aviation or any of our other infrastructure - is that terrorists haven't wanted to. Or, probably more correctly, aren't ready.

Yet.

http://www.aviationplanning.com/asrc1.htm

[Eric J in MN]

1. They should seal off the cockpit from the rest of the plane.

That would provide real security.

[FormerOstrich]

2. I've been saying that for years....I didn't know anyone

else agreed. My thought is have a pilots entrance into the cockpit which is completely sealed off (they would have to take what is now part of first class to have a bathroom and a place to make coffee etc).

The second entrance is into the passenger part of the plane. Once the plane is in the air the only way to the cockpit is outside through the door.

Wow....I can't believe someone said it!!!