airport security
I’ve really enjoyed reading Bruce Scheiner’s blog this week on airport security, as he talks with a TSA administrator. Today was the final part, and I noticed something was missing from the question lineup — what about international flights?
Think about it — the TSA does all it can do to stop mean people and bad things happening on airplanes, but only if those flights originate from within the USA.
Now, I haven’t flown internationally in a good long while, in fact the last time was returning home from my mission in Argentina in 2001. But I do remember (not knocking the country I love) that security wasn’t an issue there nearly as much as it is here, and yet we were flying straight into the U.S. So, it seems to me that there’s a huge security gap when it comes to air security — just fly from somewhere that security isn’t tight.
Not to say that the entire airport security these days isn’t completely whacked anyway, but oh well. I’d rather drive anyway.
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:03 am
I mainly fly international, with the exception of London, their security is much less intrusive than ours. One time landing in Bruxelles I asked a customs guy why he didn’t search me and his response was, “You’re American, everyone knows how much the US search”
Bruce has a great blog.
August 5th, 2007 at 5:35 am
well, I can only speak for some countries like the UK, Austria or Germany and there the checks are very strict. The UK is the only country I know though, where they check your shoes separately…