Yesterday at MCO

[CarolA]

I know statistically I have a greater chance of being in an accident on the way to the airport than I do on the plane. Today I have to make a drive from the Detroit area to Indianapolis. Trust me, I would rather fly, but because I am delivering a trunkload of snacks to a drum corp, flying is out of the question. Next week, I am going to be on a plane at least 6 times, heading out to Houston, San Jose and then down to ONT.

My only gripe is that the media hypes up these incidents and then we become numb to them. Yesterday the incident at Santa Barbara was nothing more than a video game. While I am happy about the outcome, did it have to be covered on MSNBC/CNN/FOX constantly???

pinnie

I think the media hypes them because the TSA does... We are back to the boy that cried wolf again.....

The TSA has no sense of "scale" (and very little common sense either!)

And why doesn't the media ROAST the TSA for the IDIOT shut downs. If they have to shut down an airport because the "machine" was off, or the agent failed to do the hand search after he was told to then the TSA needs to hauled on the carpet. Perhaps if they had to "pay" for thier errors they would pay more attention??? Maybe that Customer Bill of Rights could include a clause for the TSA to pay us if they screw up???? I have no beef with REAL security alerts, but just because you failed to do your job I have to miss my plane? If I miss my plane because you WERE doing your job and found the "bomb" good, but when I miss my plane because "for two hours the passenger scanner was off" SOMEONE SHOULD PAY!!!! (besides which does anyone think the 'terrorists' would take thier bomb back out with them to be rescreened???)

 

[bradk]

despite the 'liberal' media who has progressively become so shameless and competitive that they will jump on any unsubstantiated rumor and report it as hardcore news just to be the first and worry about retracting it later during the graveyard shift, if you ever want to put things into REAL perspective just google the following:

trac terrorist

(yes, that's trac)

here's one example of what you'll find

Of the 814,073 people charged by DHS in immigration courts during the past three years, 12 faced charges of terrorism, TRAC said.

Those 12 cases represent 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed.

"The DHS claims it is focused on terrorism. Well that's just not true," said David Burnham, a TRAC spokesman. "Either there's no terrorism, or they're terrible at catching them. Either way it's bad for all of us."

(from http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/27/homeland.security.record/index.html )

i don't recall exact percentages, but the way it goes is something like 90%+ of all 'terrorism' cases are dropped by federal prosecutors due to lack of evidence. of the 10% that go to trial, only like 1% get convicted, most of those convicted are for non-terrorism related crimes (mostly immigration) and of the tiny percentage that are convicted, most don't see jail time.

that's your hard earned tax dollar keeping you safe.