Time to rethink security
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Time to rethink security
It is becoming patently obvious it is impossible to stop determined terrorists. Available weapons are delivered on every meal tray. The current security measures simply pay lip service to the requirements and keep politicians out of trouble when questions are asked in Parliament.
Instead of armies of people simply performing routine tasks, we need specialists. I am talking about SAS/SBS standards with speciality in terrorism. Highly briefed and answerable to nobody at the Airport. Simple CCTV looking to follow suspicious persons from car park to departure gate. With somebody adequately trained. Terrorists trying to breach security are perhaps one in a million. They know all the tricks and current airport security holds no surprises. The terrorists have undercover workers, we need undercover security. If somebody is suspicious, then a full strip search and interrogation, not the token gesture we have now.
There will be screams of racism, human rights etc - tough! I believe a terrorist on a suicide mission would be easy to spot to a trained eye, they would be cowards anyway, but a frightened coward would be very ill at ease. A simple scan over a queue would pick them up. Quality not quantity please, or will the human rights brigade scare the Government?
Instead of armies of people simply performing routine tasks, we need specialists. I am talking about SAS/SBS standards with speciality in terrorism. Highly briefed and answerable to nobody at the Airport. Simple CCTV looking to follow suspicious persons from car park to departure gate. With somebody adequately trained. Terrorists trying to breach security are perhaps one in a million. They know all the tricks and current airport security holds no surprises. The terrorists have undercover workers, we need undercover security. If somebody is suspicious, then a full strip search and interrogation, not the token gesture we have now.
There will be screams of racism, human rights etc - tough! I believe a terrorist on a suicide mission would be easy to spot to a trained eye, they would be cowards anyway, but a frightened coward would be very ill at ease. A simple scan over a queue would pick them up. Quality not quantity please, or will the human rights brigade scare the Government?
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Dear FAA & CAA: The current security problem with our airports can be readily solved: First, fix the cockpit door problem. Second, train and arm at least one pilot in the cockpit. Three, prohibit all carryon luggage. And Four, (the biggy), that guy who wears a turbin, drives his camel thru the gates at the FBO on the other side of the airport and refuels my aircraft should be put thru security as well! Billions of dollars saved as well as the lives of our passengers. 
