A recent USA Today article discusses the TSA’s sad set of excuses for continuing to scan passengers, which never mentions their 96% failure rate to detect contraband items. TSA Intimate Encounter At long last they complied with a federal court order to follow normal rule-making procedures.
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March 25 Educational Demonstration at Mesa-Gateway
Please join us for an educational demonstration regarding the TSA this Friday, March 25, from 1-5 PM at Mesa-Gateway Airport. This is a busy travel day for Mesa-Gateway, so an excellent opportunity to help educate the traveling public regarding the expense, invasiveness, and uselessness of the TSA. We have asked Mesa-Gateway Airport to apply to…
Spending more time and lengthening lines won’t help
In light of their dismal performance in identifying contraband, the TSA has now lengthened waiting lines even further: Lines at TSA Checkpoints Getting Longer. Unfortunately, given the extremely rare nature of terrorists attacks on airlines and the limits on possible effectiveness of these types of searches, mass screening of innocent travelers can never work. It…
Airport workers skip security when flying
TSA workers try to skip their own security procedures.
What tends to actually happen when a bomb explodes on a plane.
While bombs exploding on planes are potentially disastrous, they often don’t end in complete disaster. More frequently, they result in significant damage to the plane and perhaps the person carrying the bomb being killed. This was illustrated recently by the bombing in Mogadishu. Pilot recounts blast on jet. The implication for airline security is again…
Video on Why the TSA Doesn’t Stop Terrorist Attacks
Here is an interesting video that explains why the TSA doesn’t stop terrorist attacks.