Author Topic: Flight restrictions in UK and elsewhere (Read 1997 times)

Sandman · « **Reply #75 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:41:43 PM »

Kuwaitis are not my concern either.

Sandman · « **Reply #76 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:43:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Maverick
So in other words Sandy, a passenger should just roll the dice and see if they make it to their destination.

The odds are better than the freeway.

lukster · « **Reply #77 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:45:11 PM »

Freedom isn't won by ignoring some homicidal maniacs and letting them have their way with you. It is by kicking the living s*** out of those that would deny you.

Sandman · « **Reply #78 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:46:28 PM »

Freedom also cannot be gained by letting some moron from the TSA poke and prod and rifle through your stuff.

Maverick · « **Reply #79 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:47:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
The odds are better than the freeway.

That's a non answer Sandy and I'm surprised. I figured you for more than platitudes here. What's your next statement, life's a beotch and then you die?

CAV · « **Reply #80 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:47:25 PM »

I don't have time to read all this I am going to work.....

And I am a TSA screener. Each I am facing 1000's of passagers who need to get to their planes. And I have to get it right each time, 365 days a year..... The bad guys only have to beat me once.

If anyone would like to trade jobs for a few days let me know. (working 16 hr. days right now) A few days in my shoes and maybe you would be a little nicer to that security screener at your airport.

CAVALRY

Sandman · « **Reply #81 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:49:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Maverick
That's a non answer Sandy and I'm surprised. I figured you for more than platitudes here. What's your next statement, life's a beotch and then you die?

It was a ridiculous question.

Sandman · « **Reply #82 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:50:35 PM »

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Originally posted by CAV
I don't have time to read all this I am going to work.....

And I am a TSA screener. Each I am facing 1000's of passagers who need to get to their planes. And I have to get it right each time, 365 days a year..... The bad guys only have to beat me once.

If anyone would like to trade jobs for a few days let me know. (working 16 hr. days right now) A few days in my shoes and maybe you would be a little nicer to that security screener at your airport.

CAVALRY

If you don't like it, find another job.

You don't have to like your job, and we don't have to like you for doing it.

Chairboy · « **Reply #83 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:52:09 PM »

Maverick, like I said, I would trust people like CAV to use good judgement.

The difference between you and me is that I do not think that central management from big government can produce one size fits all solutions. Instead of trying to micromanage the whole situation, give security the staffing they need to be confident and let them do what they're hired to do.

lukster · « **Reply #84 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:52:51 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Freedom also cannot be gained by letting some moron from the TSA poke and prod and rifle through your stuff.

No argument from me. I think they intend that to protect the planes (private property btw) and your life.

BGBMAW · « **Reply #85 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:54:06 PM »

See Rule #4

lukster · « **Reply #86 on:** August 14, 2006, 03:54:17 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Maverick, like I said, I would trust people like CAV to use good judgement.

The difference between you and me is that I do not think that central management from big government can produce one size fits all solutions. Instead of trying to micromanage the whole situation, give security the staffing they need to be confident and let them do what they're hired to do.

Sounds like big government to me. Why not let the airlines provide their own security?

Shuckins · « **Reply #87 on:** August 14, 2006, 04:05:25 PM »

I've been singled out for special searches on four separate occasions.

Once leaving London for Tel Aviv...and again upon my arrival in Israel.

The third occasion was when I left Ben Gurion Airport for Cairo...searched in Cairo...and again before boarding a flight from Aswan back to Cairo.

Must have been my shifty, inbred look.

I didn't complain about it. That's a different world. Both nations build their security plans with something more substantial than the fairy dust of high-sounding platitudes. If they didn't, people would die.

It's been decades since there was a successful hi-jacking of an Israeli airliner.

RedTop · « **Reply #88 on:** August 14, 2006, 04:08:10 PM »

Some of the replys here are just down right funny. In a sick sort of way.

Sandman · « **Reply #89 on:** August 14, 2006, 04:09:36 PM »

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It's been decades since there was a successful hi-jacking of an Israeli airliner.

Oh yeah... El Al, the model of airline efficiency.