I had no problem with my passengers having small knives, nail files, bottle openers and such, and still don't I had no problem with those people who were authorised carrying weapons, nor with my FO having a leatherman. But in the same way they have been disarming the population in general, preventing them from defending themselves, now my passengers and I, if faced with a terrorist on board, will be unarmed.
The terrorists will not be deterred by the security, they never have and never will.
And what is the risk? How many of the millions who fly have an agenda of violence? What is the risk? It is, as then, miniscule. So what is the latest security cr@p all about? Simple: Money and Power.
If the governments can keep the population in fear, which is easy to do considering the low level of intelligence and the control of the media they have, then they can do whatever they want. And what they want is to grow government, grown government controls, grow government income. Very successfully, it seems, assisted by those who cry "I flew to Detroit the other day and the security did not even see that I had a picture of an UZI in my bag!! Shock horror!"
Witness the new department of Homeland Security, the new federal appointments to cabinets, committees, and such, and the law that says all security staff must be federal employees, and American Citizens to boot! As if a minimum wage uneducated loser is a better security guard because he is a real American! What a concept. And be warned: If the security personnel are to be American Citizens, and employed by the Federal Government, they will be armed, as are the customs, immigration, parks and services, post office and so on. A bureaucrat with a weapon is truly something to be feared. If you thought the terrorists were bad, just wait!
What gross stupidity to believe anything we are told.
Why am I the only one to see what is really going on? Who is out there who believes that anything being done now in the name of security is anything other than a power grab?