American Airline Security Checkers Seem As Dumb As Rocks

I always feel like I’m rubbing up against the bottom of America’s barrel when I go through security checks at an American airports. The people doing them appear bored and incompetent.

They appear a lot dumber than any of their peers around the world. Those doing the checking in Europe and Australia appear a ton smarter.

So why do we get the dregs in America? I don’t know. It appears that affirmative action plays an important role in hiring. I don’t see people being hired for their merit. They get hired for acting like sheep.

Rob Eshman writes in the Jewish Journal:

At Israel’s airport counters, personnel are college students or graduates who have also completed army service. They are uniformly intelligent and well trained. That is often not the case with Transportation Security Administration employees.

“The TSA should be hiring talented and skilled people; it should not be an alternative to Welfare.,” said Israel-based security consultant Marc Prowiser.

Joe emails: You can complain all you want about the TSA and comparisons to El Al, but there is just no way of getting around it. In the USA, the focus of security is on catching the bomb. In Israel, the the focus of security is on catching the bomber. It is a distinction of sublime almost talmudic depth (your orthodox readers will conceive of it as a “hefza – gavra” distinction).

Terrorism is 99% inspiration and 1% detonation. The methodology of carrying out the attack matters less and less, and the victory over the message of terrorism is even more important than ever. The savages in the muslim world have the mindset of someone who wipes their backside with their bare hands, but with the technology of someone who wipes their bottom via a wi-fi connection. They love the technology because the technology does not judge them. When confronted with real humans and ideas, they run.

Trying to detect the bomb violates a simple rule of warfare, namely, that the enemy gets a vote.

The enemy here has one thing going for it, the technology is open to everyone. Any machine can be fooled, any machine monitored by an untrained human being is only as good as the human being (think about that when you are watching the TSA people monitor luggage).

The enemies’ problem is that they are stupid. They are predictable. They lack the sublime. They have now three times, namely, 9/11, the shoe bomber, and the panty bomber, used islamic men, with, at the time, undetectable bombs (so much for searching for the bomb), to kill. None of those men would have ever boarded an El Al flight. They had no legitimate purpose for flying where they were going, they were from suspect origins, they had paper trails that showed that they consorted with radicals, etc.

When you fly El Al, they know who you are before you get on board. You are on the no fly list even before you check baggage. You only get to board the plane if your story checks – the next time you go on El Al, watch the questions they ask you. It is more than just did you leave your luggage alone – they want to know where you are going.

In the USA, looking for the bomber is called profiling. Well, it really isn’t. El Al searches anyone whose story is a problem – they probably search 100% of muslims, but they will search a jew if that jew seems to raise alarm.

The bottom line is that we are at war, and planes are a battleground. The Obama administration has decided that the war has ended and that we can use machines to hope we catch the bomb. That violates the second rule of warfare, hope is not an option. I only pray that somehow the bomber screws up a third time on the next run thru, because the bomb that will evade detection has already been made and is armed. And all the full body screening will do nothing to spot the bomber with the undetectable bomb.