What, for crying out loud, stops a cop being blackmailed by those nasty terrorists (eg, cop's family at home at gun-point), and doing exactly this: walk through a screening point totally unchallenged, and hand off his gun to another of those nasty terrorists? You know, a bit like the DOTARS* paranoia that a PILOT is going to sneak something through in a 125g tube of toothpaste!
Or what stops Johnny Terrorist stealing a cop uniform and doing this? Nothing! And everybody in the industry knows it. And nobody, but nobody, wants to address it.
Well, now maybe they'll have to do something about those nasty cops. Never mind, Johnny Terrorist, you can still target all the airside workers who go airside via the side doors, STILL totally unscreened!
"Oh, we might have to review security at airports in the light of this", they say. God almighty.....
I'll let you in on a secret: there is no threat! Again, slowly:
there is no threat. Because if there was, it would certainly have manifested itself by now, with all the holes that we all know are there.
But just keep on pi$$ing off the pilots. That's making aviation safer by the day. NOT.
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Or whatever they call themselves this week.