[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You make the fundamental mistake of presuming that increased
security will solve the problem.
The problem is insoluble. NOTHING can stop extremists from doing
what happened yesterday, for the simple reason that between
passengers and airport employees, it is impossible to truly stop
all contraband from being on an aircraft.
So, the appropriate question is how much incremental cost do we
endure (time, money, loss of liberty, etc.) to gain an
incremental improvement in safety?
My comment was to suggest that many will pretend that if only we
increase costs (more money, more violations of individual
liberty, longer delays, etc.), this will not happen again. That
is a false belief.
Jim Elwell
I never indicated that increased security would eliminate incidents like
this, but some increase in security will minimize the likelihood that they
will happen this way. The balance point of maximum security/maximum liberty
needs to be found. In a complex society it is intolerable to go entirely in
the first direction, and dangerous to go entirely in the other.
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