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FEDERALIZED AIRPORT SECURITY

What makes you think the U.S. Government can manage airport security any better than they are managing commercial flights or Anthrax and the U.S. postal service (USPS) or the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) which opens the door to terrorists in the first place? Has government bureaucracy ever been known for efficiency or effectiveness?

The U.S. Congress actually believes a couple of major European cities have successfully federalized airport security, when, in fact, they have not. European governments tried unsuccessfully to federalize airport security years ago and failed so they let private companies do it instead with what they consider to be great success. Private companies breed competition. If the government takes over, security personnel cannot easily be fired and neither can government bureaucrats who will run the program!

However, European governments do supervise airport security rules and regulations which is the capacity the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is already supposed to be performing but we all know the FAA is a joke and not doing what it could to protect the flying public and it never has, which is why it acquired the name The Tombstone Agency. Critics charge the FAA does not act on safety issues until airline passengers die! What we really need is to force the FAA and airports everywhere to do what it knows it has to do to protect passengers!



SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: NBC TV DATELINE 11/7/01

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