Re:Time to Close the Security Theater
by asmithmd1 on Friday July 01, 2011 @06:52AM
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The reason the TSA is not reigned in is that only the little people are subject to search. If you fly on a private jet you and your luggage are whisked right to your plane with no inspection whatsoever.
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Why would you need inspection if you are flying privately? I'm a GA pilot, what am I going to do, hijack myself with a fork?
The threat the TSA is trying to address is preventing someone from converting a plane into a cruise missile.
That is not possible to do that on the commercial side not because anything TSA does but because of the reinforced cockpit doors and because passengers would fight back.
Anyone with a $15k limit on a credit card can call NetJets and order up a jet which they can load up with as much explosives as the plane can carry. Yet another reason everything TSA does is theater - it does nothing to prevent another 9/11 style attack.
Pilots and air crew have to go through the TSA theater as well. The only immune people are the high-profile politicians.
Not when you get on a plane at the general aviation side of an airport. There are no TSA agents, no metal detectors, and certainly no virtual strip search machines. You just give your plane's tail number as a kind of password and walk right out onto the ramp.
Re:Time to Close the Security Theater
by chopsueyar on Friday July 01, 2011 @11:25AM
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