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Would you pay $100 to fly with fewer security hassles?


Hate the full-body scans, pat-downs and slow going at TSA airport security screening checkpoints? For $100, you can now bypass the hassle. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called "Precheck." It has special lanes for background-checked travelers, who can keep their shoes, belt and jacket on, leave laptops and liquids in carry-on bags and walk through a metal detector rather than a full-body scan. The process, now at two airlines and nine airports, is much like how screenings worked before the Sept. 11 attacks.  Would you pay $100 to roll back the clock to the good old days of travel?

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    This is guaranteed dangerous -- an open invitation to those who would do us harm.

    al Q'aida merely has to have 1,000 people apply. If just 5% are approved, based on submitted paper work (possibly the result of Identity Theft) and a "brief" interview .... they would have FIFTY trusted agents with "fewer security hassles". ..... ....

    Even if there are random screenings of the "trusted travelers", no way are they going to catch all 50 when they fly on the same day ... say Sept 11, 2021.

    Realistically, more like 60-80% or more would be approved.

    Ground crew (cleaners, food service, baggage handlers) could also be part of this, placing explosives on board.

    The level of protection afforded by TSA is no greater than the days of "Did you pack your bags yourself; have they been out of your possession?"

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    This will obviously somehow be exploited sooner or later by some group.

    The only reason nothing has happened thus far is that no one has tried hard enough.

    The ease at which the 911 attacks were perpetrated seems like they'd have tried something like this again. Then again, who knows fully about the 911 attacks?

    There's endless conspiracy theories from the one the media first presented, to the "official" one given by the .gov, and then of course that other one that seems so much more plausible when you fully study humanity and its need to rule at any cost.

    A king sends his best warriors into battle, knowing he will lose some of them, at the risk of losing all of them.

    How much more the sons and daughters of the peasants he has never even heard of?



    I would pay an extra $100 to be guaranteed the full use of my seat.



    I would pay $100 for a background check. I travel a lot and hate to have to plan my foot ware and travel liquids for security, plus it would be faster. $100 is nothing if you take 100 trips a year.


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