Closing Arguments: Keeping Friendly Skies

Spending all this money on better security???? The ticket agent should have done his/her job. A big red flag should go off. This man paid cash for a one way ticket from Amsterdam to Detroit, helloo????

I don’t think pat downs will work. Listening to a parent’s call to alert the US authorities of their perceived threat of the child to the US will work. More importantly, the full body scanners are effective and the data is not saved. They will work.

None of this will work. It is a waste of money! Kurt Haskell who saw the underwear bomber prior to boarding the flight says Mr. bomber was never searched. Kurt Haskell heard from a man that was with the underwear bomber tell the TSA that the nigerian didn’t even have a passport. The nigerian man and the other man were then able to board the plane. They didn’t have to take off their shoes and walk through a metal detector.

Yes, the enhanced measures will help. These should be implemented at all airports immediately. Also, full body scans and intense detailed profiling should be implemented everywhere immediately. These are all small steps in the right direction.
All of these things will help, but will not completely solve the terrorism threat to airliners. Additional measures should be identified and implemented on an ongoing basis. We are at war. The enemy will continue to seek new ways to attack us and we should continue to seek new ways to stop them. This is a process that never ends and shame on the government if it cannot stay ahead of the enemy and protect us. To make the government less likely to have internal communication problems like those that caused the Detroit incident, the Homeland Security Department should be folded into the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense is supposed to be defending us. Homeland Security is just a Bush boondoggle that has hurt, rather than helped.
Finally, I am appalled that I have heard nothing on the media about the possibility of the terrorists using the plastic explosives all over the place, rather than just on airlines. It seems that the government is so preoccupied with airlines that it is ignoring everything else. With our southern border wide open the way it is, I am very worried that the terrorists will bring in the explosives via Mexico and use them everywhere. If the government cannot keep drugs and aliens from coming across the border, how will they stop explosives from coming across?

For the people or person who saw that Mr. bomber did not have the proper ID or credentials to board the plane and said nothing, what part do you share in this failure? We all have a responsibility in this. If we see something that isn’t right, take the time and report it.