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I think those aren't the only choices. There's another. We could just eliminate it. Dismantle the whole apparatus introduced after 9/11, roll back each and e
by otakucode 8y ago
I think those aren't the only choices. There's another. We could just eliminate it. Dismantle the whole apparatus introduced after 9/11, roll back each and every single security "improvement" since then at airports (which does nothing but make the long lines awaiting security screening an easier and much better target than any flight). 9/11 was basically a vaccine against hijackings. It only worked because prior hijackings resulted in nothing more than the flight being redirected to some different destination. But now that every person in the world getting on a flight knows that the potential exists that the plane will be turned into a flying bomb, hijacking is basically impossible. Do you think a pilot will open the door because a hijacker is holding a flight attendant hostage with a box cutter? Do you think that the would-be hijacker won't be crushed under nearly every able-bodied passenger on the flight piling themselves on top of the hijacker?
If there's still concern over hijacking, that solution is super simple. They do it in Israel. Separate entrances for pilot and passengers. Only way to get from the passenger compartment into the pilots cabin is by exiting the airplane and entering a separate door from the outside. Boom. Hijacking impossible. The security theater of the TSA does not keep anyone safe.
- csydas 8y agoIt may have been my incoherence after having just woken up but I was more sardonically commenting on the existence of the bias itself and whether it being a hidden bias or a publicly stated standard operating procedure would be preferable. Naturally eliminating it would be better, but at the moment I am not confident the US will. It was more a stab at the sad state of affairs and if at least pretending to not be biased is preferred to at least knowing it's the default state
- xvf22 8y agoSorry I may have missed it but can you source "They do it in Israel. Separate entrances for pilot and passengers. Only way to get from the passenger compartment into the pilots cabin is by exiting the airplane and entering a separate door from the outside."? That seems unlikely for many reasons (washroom and rest area access among others).
- nannal 8y agoSolution there is simple, pilots simply need to bring two jugs, one filled with water, one empty.
- mcbutterbunz 8y agoAnd what about defecating? And where?
- krageon 8y agoI suspect you may be taking the person you are responding to too seriously.
- ataturk 8y agoBureaucracy only grows, however. Across the US, there is a massive police state apparatus in place for no good reason and yet we can't just dismantle it because the usual fear mongers, who make money off of it, will scare the public silly. I hate flying now, I gave up on travel just because the security apparatus is so god damn irritating and unnecessary on top of an airline industry which continues to make the most awful choices possible for the end consumer so that the CEOs can make more billions. I have concluded that the rich and powerful fly on private aircraft and never have to experience these indignities so they don't care. The wealthy just drive up, often right next to their plane, and board it. If they want to bring guns or illegal drugs or their portable basketball hoop, they can because nobody is there to stop them. There are no lines or metal detectors or machines that pump you full of ionizing radition (thanks L3 System, you can all smoke a turd in hell for that gift to humanity). The rest of us, as usual, are purposefully kept down using humiliation and police state tactics. This is the age-old method of keeping the peasants in line and it works exceedingly well. It's all become so perverse, and sadly, so accepted by regular people that they forgot they don't have to stand for it.