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What others, and myself, are saying translated into some sound bytes ...
"Safety usually involves a trade-off in freedom."
"Only way to be 100% safe is to be 100% dead."
To believe the TSA and other government actions are non-political is naive, and that's putting it mildly. It's all political; controlling the masses while benefiting the power-elite...
The real threat, from the perspective of the power-elite, of airliners being hijacked isn't the passengers, but rather the plane itself being used as a weapon...
There's currently no cost effective way to protect buildings and those within from a jumbo jet fully loaded with fuel flying at upwards of 500 MPH. That's what the power-elite truly fear and will do most anything to stop, people's civil rights be damned.
What's the answer? ...
1. People need to realize there's always going to be a tradeoff when living in a "free" society.
(Though it increasingly appears many in the U.S. would prefer to have their actions dictated by the government - want to take a flight, raise your hands, expose one's self to a stranger, and likely get groped too.)
2. Proactive use of technology can help, such as hardened, locked cockpit doors (a simple security measure that's been highly effective), using less flammable fuel (crazy? nope, it's been researched and, from my understanding, is used in some military applications), and remote overrides / hard-coded flight boundaries (ie. attempting to fly a plane towards an important government building would be restricted automatically by software; this is being developed and likely will be deployed in the near future).
Ron
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