[IP] more on sorry Congress may try retain airliner "scissors" ban
Begin forwarded message:
From: Lee Tien <tien@xxxxxxx>
Date: December 2, 2005 4:36:20 PM EST
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on sorry Congress may try retain airliner
"scissors" ban
For IP if you wish:
TSA has rightly been criticized over the past few years, but Congress
deserves criticism as well. E.g., a few days ago, the Washington
Post reported that
"The TSA's internal studies show that carry-on-item screeners spend
half of their screening time searching for cigarette lighters, a
recently banned item. . . ."
Meanwhile, CNN notes that lighters are "the only item prohibited by
law. Congress, concerned that terrorists would have an easier time
igniting a bomb with a lighter than with matches, enacted the ban. It
took effect April 14:"
I find it difficult to believe that this is a rational policy.
Plus, I'd really like to see those "internal studies." It's good
that TSA is studying what it does, but such studies about how these
policies are working -- well or poorly -- should be openly published.
Lee
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/12/02/passenger.screening.ap/index.html
Begin forwarded message:
From: Paul Levy <plevy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 2, 2005 2:14:55 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Congress may try retain airliner "scissors" ban
Was there supposed to be a link in here?
Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation
David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx> 12/2/2005 2:11 PM >>>
Do read this and then ask why did we ever elect clowns like this who
want to ban small sharp objects but allow forks and plastic knives
and glass drinking glasses etc. My reading is for once TSA has it
right.
Dave
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