Endview plane7/10/2023 ![]() ![]() This site is for entertainment purpose only. View from the Wing is a project of Miles and Points Consulting, LLC. government who get to spy on and persecute western citizens. That’s true except who won the most are the T in thre U.S. It’s the not the former who pose the direct risk. Instead, western citizens are persecuted and that group gets waved through at airport screening for fear of offending.Ĭertainly, we need to distinguish between rich Arabs/south Asians coming on vacation with tourism $$$ and poor students who have plenty of college opportunities in their home countries and aren’t coming here with $$$. This prevents this group flying on flights to and from the U.S. A rational plan would be to severely restrict immigration of this group and severely restrict student and other visas for this group. One external group poses the biggest risk to western citizens. Like with everything, the government does it wrong. Domestic spying is the norm, TSA and customs abuses many, and trillions have been wasted on foolish wars that have done nothing to make westerners safer. The government has done more to harm western citizens than that group ever has done. ![]() And,įor the extra spending to have been justified using conventional tools of cost-benefit analysis, assuming a 75% reduction in risk, it would have needed to prevent an otherwise successful 9/11-level attack every two years, or a 2005 London bombings-level event every few weeks.ĭoes this mean, in some sense, that the terrorists won? NSA spying on Americans, tapping internet traffic, several wars and losses of life and the end of passport-less travel to Canada and Mexico are a few of the legacies of 9/11 in addition to TSA. And the TSA found that “there have been no attempted domestic hijackings of any kind in the 12 years since 9/11.”.TSA accidentally filed a security assessment in court documents in 2013 revealing that “as of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports.”.we haven’t seen shoe bombings used against other targets in the U.S.And that’s a very difficult counterfactual to disprove. Now, you might say, without taking off our shoes there’d be more Richard Reids, and those plots might be successful. Taking shoes off at security, of course, will continue for those without PreCheck until new scanning technology replaces it. Or 242 full lives, based on average US life expectancy of 78.5 years.Īmerican Airlines flight 63, of course, was carrying 197 people on board. ![]() That’s equivalent to 19,026 years of life.At roughly 500 million passengers per year, over 20 years, that is 10 billion minutes.Indeed, shoes are one of the most time-consuming components of the screening process. Assume the process of removing shoes, sending them through screening, retrieving them and putting them back on (in some cases tying laces or buckling) takes one minute.He was unsuccessful, but Richard Hanania wonders whether he was ultimately successful, It was this plot that led to American passengers removing their shoes at airport security. He was arrested, charged, convicted and eventually given 3 life sentences plus 110 years in prison without the possibility of parole. The plot was foiled by several factors, from high humidity to Reid’s own perspiration dampening the fuse along with another passenger smelling smoke. He attempted to blow up American Airlines flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001. Richard Reid, the “Shoe Bomber”, is a British career criminal who converted to Islam in prison and came a member of Al Qaeda.
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