Comments on: Israeli-Style Airport Security Coming to U.S.?

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:57:06 +0000

Putting all this effort into extensive passenger checks is a waste of time. A terrorist doing the same exact thing would make it much less effective in the first place, not to mention the chance of passengers not taking action the ‘next’ time around are nil. If they were obsessed with planes for some reason, its not hard to get a job at an airport, use a much less but just as dangerous cargo aircraft, or simply shoot them down(to name a few out of 1000 ways to terrorize the air industry). Its all a false sense of security. The fact we are now so paranoid yet feel secure because of the extensive security at passenger checkpoints is an act of self-maintaining terror in itself. If you were a terrorist, it would be laughable to look at how paranoid a population becomes.

By: nedarc

nedarc — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:12:40 +0000

When are we going to get rid of P.C. and start to protect ourselves and live like normal human beings again, or do we have to completly surrender to the people without common sense?

By: AirdaleABH4

AirdaleABH4 — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:05:56 +0000

OLAD & dman , did you attend public schools ? One might think so by your spelling .

By: peter

peter — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:08:02 +0000

“Use the israeli system” has come up in many articles/blogs, and in the comments I ALWAYS see someone point out the number of planes EL AL has or the size of ben gurion airport. Actually I believe the Israelis check out every passenger on every flight that lands in Israel, eg a Continental flight out of NYC, or Egyptair out of Bangkok (assuming a direct flights).
That’s alot of agents.
I used to do some sort of work in Ben Gurion back in the late 80s, and used to speak to the security guys. They were in general smart, motivated guys, absolutely nothing like your TSA monkey.
For example I asked one of them (who used to wander about acting like a bored passenger) about a certain trash recepticle mounted in the wall that I thought may be a place to put an explosive. He knew exactly the object I was talking about and explained why it was considered OK.

(btw, I don’t have any opinion if the israeli way is practical, or if it will work or not, for the USA)

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:43:38 +0000

I have no faith in the quality of the people who are hired for airport security and screening. Furthermore, it is very likely that the ACLU and the Party of Jackasses will object to profiling. After all, the ACLU considers the mujahadeen to be freedom fighters against the imperialist, capitalist pig dogs. I agree that the Israeli method works and they are very competent at it. Another issue raised: what to do about disgruntled Homeland Security people who are either fired or are politically-compromised and go to the NY Slimes to spill the beans about how the work is done. Leaking is a specialty of The Party of Defeat.

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Orbiting the blogosphere | Daily Newscaster — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:26:28 +0000

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By: Mal

Mal — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:25:38 +0000

Security officers became suspicious because of discrepancies in Anne Murphy’s story. This is what trained Profilers at airports look for: “Things that don’t add up”. Anne Murphy claimed not to know anyone in Israel (because her boyfriend told her to lie). So she was travelling alone to a country she had never visited before, didn’t know details of her hotel accommodation in Israel, had very little money, claimed she had a credit card which turned out to be a bank card just for taking cash from a ATM in the UK, didn’t know the details of her air ticket. So she was selected for enhanced screening and the semtex was discovered when her packed bag was emptied and found to be unusually heavy.

By: M. C. Ridge

M. C. Ridge — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:10:55 +0000

Article was right on … until the last line. Michael Chertoff is the most clueless, mindless bureaucrat in the world. We should have been learning from the Israelis and the Germans since day one. We’ve spent billions on a less than effective, intrusive security system.

Of course, I blame the airlines first. The airline management has not had the fortitude to take on the security problem themselves. Instead they use the government to shield themselves from liability and blame. My response has been to never again fly commercial. If I can’t fly myself or drive, I don’t go.

By: tim stevens

tim stevens — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:22:24 +0000

won’t work in the us. look at the educational level of the ‘tards we have working the airports right now. couldn’t pour pi$$ out of a boot.

besides, does anybody believe for one second that once we have these incredibly useless yet so time consuming searches in place we will give them up for some homer simpson-type announcing “he looks suspicious – arrest him” security expert?

no we’ll get them both and also the new Thz “see through clothing” scanners and whatever else those “trust us, we’re from the government” jerks can dream up.

By: dman

dman — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:04:39 +0000

Before boarding El Al flight
get asked series of questions
So may seem inane – Did you pack
your own bags?

Others – Where are you going?
How long intend to stay?
Where are you staying? The
questions are designed to elict
answers which give profiler a
feeling – if not comfortable
will ask new series of questions
If not getting right answers
will be pulled aside and given
3rd degree – which is how
caught Anne Marie Murphy

As for LOD airport massacre -
weapons used were Czech made
VZ 58 automatic rifles