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be compromised simply because there are looming threats.
Irrefutably, there are other solutions. Other countries utilize
more security measures centered on intelligence rather
than physical prevention; racial profiling and checking
passengers against criminal databases are more prevalent.
This course of actions has proved to be successful, so why
America has not implemented these measures or at least
investigated alternate options in a more assiduous and public
manner is baffling, and a concern that the public must
raise in order to counteract the unjust nature of national
security. There are already reports of the transfer of illicit
items sewn inside bodies, which go undetectable in the full
body scans and groin checks, but a danger that could be
more effectively tackled with profiling, especially when the
contour(profile) of a terrorist is confined, explicitly recognized,
and determinable.
Israel is one of these nations with an effective security
force, and often branded as the safest in the world. Global
Traveler has heralded El Al as the aviation industry’s most
secure airline, despite that they remain a sought after target
for terrorism. They have held terrorism in abeyance
through a system of intelligence security that consists of
interviews and extensive profiling. The probabilities of terrorist
crumbling under such procedures is very high, as
microexpression has been scientifically proven to be successful.
This is not a recommendation for America to adopt
Israeli’s system in its entirety, but rather assess and adapt
some of its more beneficial techniques.
Sidestepping the security inconveniences at U.S. airports
is relatively easy, that is as long as you have the money.
Rent a private jet. Flying private permits you to bypass
almost all security measures. TSA does not require security
action for private aviation operators, including large business
jets. I do not want to give any ideas to all the Taliban
that are reading this article, but with the current statute in
place, terrorism could not be any more facile. If new security
regulations are not amended, it is only inevitable that
with time, America will be victimized by another devastating
attack. Terrorists will view aviation as an effective
means of attack, capitalizing on the lack of security measures
on private airplanes.
Amid the adoption of the threatening security procedures
and the Thanksgiving holidays I am more cognizant
than ever of my country’s indispensable virtues. I give
thanks for our founding fathers, for rescuing our country
from the wrath of the British. And I give thanks for the the
fundamental cornerstone of our democracy, my freedom.
HMR
Molester, pervert, disgusting, an embarrassment, creep. These
are all words I have heard today at work describing me, said in my
presence as I patted passengers down. These comments are painful
and demoralizing, one day is bad enough, but I have to come
back tomorrow, the next day and the day after that to keep hearing
these comments. If something doesn’t change in the next two
weeks I don’t know how much longer I can withstand this taunting. I
go home and I cry. I am serving my country, I should not have to go
“home and cry after a day of honorably serving my country.
I served a tour in Afghanistan followed by a tour in Iraq. I have been
hardened by war and in the past week I am slowly being broken by
the constant diatribe of hateful comments being lobbed at me. While
many just see a uniform with gloves feeling them for concealed
items I am a person, I am a person who has feelings. I am a person
who has served this country. I am a person who wants to continue
serving his country. The constant run of hateful comments while I
perform my job will break me down faster and harder than anything
“I encountered while in combat in the Army.
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