And they increase restrictions to beyond the inane (hands on knees, nothing on lap, no movement an hour before landing) again and expect this it make us safe this time. It won't.

Privatize the airline security and let them screen based on risk.

"Privatizing" airport security means it stops existing. It exists mostly because the majority of people who rarely fly use their votes to insist it be instituted. This is so they can feel safe on their two flights a year while other people (the frequent fliers) pay for it.

The people who give airlines the majority of their business, namely business travelers, pretty much uniformly despise airport security so if you left it up to supply and demand it wouldn't exist.

DE - statistically no attacks are likely to happen to any given person flying.

You could probably kill more people by setting off your suitcase full of explosives in the airport security line at some airports than you would by blowing up the actual airplane.

How exactly do you arrive at this conclusion? You're just going on your eyeballing of how many people you think are in the line, how many you think might be on some imaginary plane in your head, and some vague idea of how explosives work.

Maybe, maybe not depending on the exact conditions of each case, but the fact is that if you set off a bomb (that actually explodes, not like the idiot in this case) there is a chance that the plane will crash as well, killing most, or more likely, all of the people on board which could be a few hundred. In the airport, the explosive has to do all that work directly, and that may or may not be realistic depending on the nature of the bomb and the circumstances of the detonation.

So far the bomb vests haven't been deployed here. The masterminds want big targets. They want to sneak past security and bag themselves a plane.

The thing is you don't have to kill all that many people DE, maiming and scarring for life is also pretty effective. The effort is to make people afraid to do the things they like to do.

Go out with a bomb vest at lunchtime in any big city, you might get as many people as you would in a plane, maybe. You will cause more terror because people don't have to fly. They have to eat.

Take out a rail station at rush hour. Then when everyone is driving to work afraid to take the train, drive a big rig over the top of the rush hour traffic.

Ruin businesses all over the country by taking out the lunch lines at a few Mickey Ds. Take out a few Starbucks in the rush to work and bang, coffee becomes terror.

I really don't understand why they have these fixations on tall buildings and airplanes. You could do more damage at a concert just before the doors open.

Hopefully no terrorists are reading these words.

So far the bomb vests haven't been deployed here. The masterminds want big targets. They want to sneak past security and bag themselves a plane.

The thing is you don't have to kill all that many people DE, maiming and scarring for life is also pretty effective. The effort is to make people afraid to do the things they like to do.

Go out with a bomb vest at lunchtime in any big city, you might get as many people as you would in a plane, maybe. You will cause more terror because people don't have to fly. They have to eat.

Take out a rail station at rush hour. Then when everyone is driving to work afraid to take the train, drive a big rig over the top of the rush hour traffic.

Ruin businesses all over the country by taking out the lunch lines at a few Mickey Ds. Take out a few Starbucks in the rush to work and bang, coffee becomes terror.

I really don't understand why they have these fixations on tall buildings and airplanes. You could do more damage at a concert just before the doors open.

Hopefully no terrorists are reading these words.

Yes yes, nothing could possibly go wrong if we just privatize airport security. I mean, private security is so much more reliable, right, because of the profit motive...

/gag

Someone said today that the heads of the groups claiming responsibility for this "attack" (ie training) were both released from Gitmo... any truth to that?