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Vesayen
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How many people use airlines every year in the U.S.? I don’t know offhand, would 50,000,000 be a good number? Probably a little conservative, but lets use that as an example......
Lets say 20 people snuck bombs onto airplanes in the last 12 months and blew them up-which didn’t happen, but lets say it did for the sake of discussion.
Now I THINK the government knows how to do math, but I'm not sure......
20 divided by 50,000,000 is .0000004, or .00004% of the flying people in the U.S. are a threat, 1 in every 2,500,000
How many people are screened every year? 1 in every 200 sound good?
50,000,000 divided by 200 is 250,000 people.
If 1 in every 2,500,000 is a threat, and 250,000 people are screened, do the odds seem very likely, or even possible that they will EVER catch a terrorist planning on blowing up a plane????? And those are conservative numbers, they are really much higher I’m sure.
I did that in about a minute with a pocket calculator, I think the government could do the same…….
Security obviously isn’t a reason, as I don’t think the government is THAT stupid(much as I’d like to) so it must be for political correctness.
We are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on airport screening we know doesn’t` work?
How many African Americans, South Americans, Caucasians, or Asians have blown up airplanes in U.S. history? I’m not saying single out people of ME descent, what I AM saying is that its idiotic in the extreme to be screening people at random as it is completely ineffectual.
To my knowledge everyone who has committed acts of terrorism against the last 2 or 3 years were male non citizens of Middle Eastern descent between the ages of 18 and 40…… they have no rights as citizens and all those countries hate us anyway, so why not confine all random searches to the group more likely to be a problem and for the hundreds of millions of dollars being wasted, bump up the likeliness of finding something from .00004% to at least 1%?
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st_swithin
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Nov 2002
time: 05:29
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IT'S NOT RANDOM.
They flag letters in your name, apparently, and of course, women.
I've had my underwear and bras thoroughly checked the last 10 times I've flown. I guess there are just millions of Asian female terrorists out there. Amazing - I haven't met a single one (just like female game designers!)
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