I think you know that's not case....
Ah, so which is it? Want to throw the IRA in there? Who was the last Israeli prime minister to be killed in office assasinated by? Was it Muslims who murdered students at Columbine? Neither the FARC in Columbia or the paramilitary terrorist groups down there are Muslim.
You seem to really think that radical Islam is the only threat to aviation security. Now that's unbelievably naive. And you still haven't answered my question: since Muslims come in a wide range of appearances, how would you even begin profiling them? Do you support some kind of national registration for them, maybe make them wear an ID badge?
I never said they are the only problem. It is much deeper and the fact of the matter is that the current situation is not doing us any good.
I still believe that everything that happens (or not happening) in this area of security and airport security is a result of the fear of loosing privacy. Good inteligence, common sense, and adjustment to the 21st century (yes, in terms of privacy) will give you a much better security. Good inteligence will make sure that the focus is pointed at the right place. If it's a Muslim initiative or some nut case who happens to be Irish and want to blow up a building. Right now airline check-in computers' "decide" who gets SSS on the boarding pass...are you kidding me?!
You cannot tell the world "we believe in privacy and freedom and thus we will not enforce any rules/laws that might interfere with one's freedom" and at the same time complain that what the TSA is doing is a joke. It just doesn't work this way. Something has to give. If you don't think that times have changed and that people needs to be open for some changes in their lives in exchange for a much better security than you won't have security.
It's amazing how people worried about their privacy even when it comes to their own safety and wellbeing and in many cases they practice double-standard in a naive way.
A friend of mine told me once, after I told her that in Israel your bag is searched when you walk into a mall, movie theater, supermarket...pretty much every where, that she will
never allow her bag to be searched when she goes to the mall. I want to believe that she represents the vast majority of Americans.
Now, when Americans take the ferry to the Statue of Liberty for example, or when they visit a Navy carrier (like the JFK when it docked in Boston few months ago),
no one will ever argue whether it is violating their privacy when they go through the metal detector and put their bags in the xray machine. But say HLS will decide tomorrow that all bags should be checked at the entrance to malls for example, do you have any doubt that the media will be filled with voices who call against it, for violation of privacy? Do you have any doubt...? That's double standarts, but the fact that no one will object when they go to see Lady Liberty shows that deep inside the public understands that for
good security something has to give.
