It is all about numbers. 94% of all travel is done in an automobile. 2% is done on a train or bus. 4% is done by airplane. Of those several populations, only the air traveler is monitored and only 2% of that 4% is given a pat-down search. None of the controversial scanners pick up plastic explosives.
There are 65,000 TSA employees. The TSA has been around since 2001. To date, not a single passenger has been caught with explosives of any kind nor have any been arrested. Not one in 9 years. There have been a number of in-flight "incidences," however, during this period of time. The shoe bomber and the underwear bomber come to mind. Understand that there have been others but they have not made the national news.
Point of post: we are just giving the reader numbers. Midknight Review is not drawing any conclusions, headline aside (we have to bring readers to the site - either with our headlines or with naked pictures of the ladies).
Add to the above facts the open border policy of the current Administration and the pathetic investigative record of our port authority and we have a potential crisis on our hands. While the news of the day keeps "security" at the forefront of national consciousness, the sad reality is that we are doing almost nothing to stop another attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or maybe, just maybe, the "folks" are doing more behind the scenes than we will ever be allowed to know (?). Keep in mind, there have been no successful attacks on our water supply, our nuclear energy systems, our food banks. Is that all by accident?
Our point is not to be overly critical of the federal system but to remind the reader that we are nearly as vulnerable as before 9-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . or are we?
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