I have flown only once since this TSA nonsense began and that is only because I had a deal on some tickets. The policy of routinely cutting locks needs to go. No luggage should be opened without the owner present, excepting some very rare instances. If it is only the airline that handles the luggage then they are solely responsible for any loss along the way. There is also the plausible deniability on both the part of the TSA and the airline, both groups can point fingers at the other on who stole what.
The second issue with items disappearing in the handling of luggage is that the TSA is allowed to search bags in private where no one can see them steal stuff. Might have something to do with the fact that it is their own planes that are being protected, no airline wants to lose an airplane or the passengers within it. I recall that history shows that they are more effective at securing the airport anyway. Let the airline and/or airport staff take over control of the security. No one can tell me that attempting to take a flight in an airplane is probable cause to a government search for explosives or weapons. One is the unconstitutional search by an agent of the federal government without warrant or probable cause. When it comes to the TSA screeners stealing there are two separate issues here.
Turning people away only because the sniffer picked up something is stupid because the false positive rate is so high, and if the screeners truly felt the person did have a bomb then that person should not be allowed to walk free, that person needs to be arrested, investigated, and charged with attempted murder or something. The sniffers are great in picking up potentially explosive compounds but really bad at finding an actual bomb. Common sense needs to prevail when screening for explosives. Those bomb sniffers aren't even that great since they are often too sensitive and will pick up a variety of cosmetics, medicines, and just stuff people pick up from the environment and flag it as explosive. Anyone that has been patted down is automatically not going to fly, with rare exceptions. Pat downs should be reserved only for people that are placed under arrest for failure to comply with the safety rules. Bolted doors and a "to the death" attitude in the air can handle what gets through the detectors. These people will react with lethal force using their own fists, feet, and teeth if they must to take that person down.īomb sniffers and metal detectors are enough on the ground. Tactics like a bolted door to the pilots and a cabin filled with people (crew and passengers) that know that someone that wields such a weapon can kill everyone on board. Sure, I suppose someone might be able to sneak one of those ceramic or high density plastic blades on board the plane that these back scatter scanners might find but that problem has already been addressed. These scanners will find nothing that a metal detector and those bomb sniffers don't already find.
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