In the 20 months since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the airport experience for many Americans has consisted of long and intrusive security lines, paperwork and procedural questions. For a select few, the experience also feels like being the victim of a crime. After assuming responsibility for airport security, the new Transportation Security Administration, created shortly after 9/11, has spent… return to article
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Reader Comments (14)Page 1 of 1 pagesNot to mention that the 9/11 hijackers all used an ALIAS!
Posted by Laurie Martin on May 31, 2003 at 5:25 AM laurie, what’s your point? Are you against making airlines safer?
Posted by Brad on Jun 1, 2003 at 6:17 PM This won’t work because, in this day age, creating a new indentity is as easy as pie, thus making this whole execercise rather silly and only adding fear. Can’t you just see the 84 old from Floride getting a red dot in her boarding pass when the system screws and it will do that just on the fact that no database is 100% accurate.
Posted by Cilia on Jun 1, 2003 at 11:27 PM Not to mention that the US Government did the 9/11 attacks to usuer in there new world order, the ppl are so dumb to not even see that fact that they get away with it.
Posted by New World Order on Jun 4, 2003 at 8:17 PM Pay no mind to Brad.
He’s spewing his self-righteous bullshit all over this web site.
He’s abusive, rude, and a bully. Fuck him.
Posted by neil on Jun 10, 2003 at 11:00 AM And what would you propose, Brad, the SS stationed everywhere.
Seig heil!
Posted by neil on Jun 10, 2003 at 11:01 AM If this Capps II program was not so Orwellian it would be amusing. One would think aircraft were being crashed into buildings every day! Should the day ever come when politically stirred paranoia ends most rational minds would agree this is just another example of a newly created gov. agency trying to justify it’s own existence.
Posted by eric sorensen on Jun 10, 2003 at 1:50 PM Now who’s “spewing the bullshit”, Neil?
I called the person a jackass who siad that people from America were dumb for not believing that Bush organized 9/11. If that’s not a jackass, I don’t know what is.
You have this idea that I’m a nazi, I don’t know why, I’m Jewish and that alone could possibly make me a yellow on the scale. I don’t care if my bags are checked twice, if it can make me feel safer, I’m ok with it.
You said I was abusive, to whom? I do speak very strongly but I’m not being rude or a bully.
Posted by Brad on Jun 10, 2003 at 10:25 PM If we really want to make airlines safer, then let’s stop the CEOs from cutting the pay of those airline employees who are tasked with ensuring our safety (flight attendants, pilots, baggage handlers, etc.) while enriching themselves with mega bonuses.
Posted by Chuck on Jun 16, 2003 at 3:20 PM So are Jewish people issued the yellow arm bands or what? this system rings of Nazi Germany
Posted by Margo on Jun 17, 2003 at 5:54 PM Margo, did you read the article? When were armbands spoken about in the article? When did the nazis ever take such a high-tech approach to airport security? All this system does, is give a risk score to everyone on the plane, those with higher risk scores will have to go through more security. It really is that simple. If you follow the airline’s rules then you have nothing to worry about.
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