Airline security

Overview

This article is about security measures in place aboard commercial airliners, and especially about the gap between the severity of the restrictions and the actual safety provided.

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This gap has become much worse since 9/11, and seems to widen with each new terrorist threat.

Links

• 2006-10-06 Subject: TSA stupidity and the US Marine Corps: USMC Lance Corporal flying home on a rented 747 is allowed to keep his M16A4, M249, and a sheathed bayonet, but has his toothpaste confiscated because it violates safety rules.

Quotes

"The purpose of the TSA is to demonstrate that Americans are no longer citizens; we are now subjects of an incompetent empire. You will obey, even though you know we are being ridiculous and, and we know you know, and you know that we know that you know, etc. In other words, obey!" – Jerry Pournelle [1]