TSA to beef up employee screening

[tonyw]

If all they did was pull aside "middle eastern looking men" then yeah, they should get sued.

Why?

Because it's stupid and it won't work.

You think if al Qaeda sees all "middle eastern looking men" are being pulled out for extra screening, they won't say, fine, let's use a Dutch woman. Or a green eye Pakistani? Or a Malaysian or an Indonesian?

Besides, why bother to try the airplane trick when it won't work? If they really want to blow up a plane, the cargo is going in there unscreened.

Sure, it might make the ignorant among us feel safer but guess what? It won't make us any safer.

As for the liquids ban, if the TSA had gotten its stuff together, then we wouldn't have to worry about it. There have been companies large and small BEGGING the TSA to certify their explosive detection systems since September 12, 2001. And the TSA won't get their heads out of their asses long enough to do it.

Of course, there is the fact that they did the liquids explosive trick in the late 1990s and killed a Japanese businessman on a flight, but we flew with our liquids and gels for ten years before someone decided, we better scare everyone again and put the liquids ban in place.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Why bother to smuggle explosives into the cabin when you can just put them in the unscreened cargo below?