How do the airlines get away and justify their security rules?

Question

How can anyone deny a person to carry a bottle of water with them? Water is a necessity for all people. Did I say water is a necessity? Just had to make sure.

You also can't make people buy water in airport stores and people should have the right to supply their own water. In order to make it right, airports should supply free bottles of water if they are going to make you discard the bottle of water you bring through security.

If the airlines think a 3 oz bottle of liquids is safe, then what makes them so sure that a group of "terrorist" passengers cannot COMBINE their little 3 oz bottles of liquids to make a larger amount?

I am not disagreeing with the fact that we need airline security, but with the laws there are now, I have to wonder if the terrorists are already in control of us if we cannot even be allowed to carry a bottle of water or if the real terrorists is our own government, because the last time I checked, Al Queda hasn't come around denying me I cannot carry a bottle of water in an airport, but the TSA surely does.

I swear, we have the most arrogant and dumbest people in our government when it comes to security issues. They treat us citizens more like terrorists than anyone else.

Answer 1

i never really realized that until now. that is why we need to vote ralph nader into office. if anyone can fix the government it's him.

Answer 2

As democracies become more affluent, they become more complacent, and they forget how hard it is to obtain freedoms and how easy it is to lose them.  As time passes, people are more and more willing to sacrifice the hard-won freedoms in exchange for "security," even security that isn't necessary or against vague threats that don't actually exist.  Eventually all freedoms are lost, and the democracy lapses back into a dictatorship or similar totalitarian society.

Just about all democratic societies move in this direction as they evolve. There isn't any way to stop it because most people won't believe it until it's too late.  Remember, the n***s came to power legally.

Answer 3

You're getting mad at the wrong people. Airlines don't make the security rules. Airports don't make the security rules. The Transportation Security Administration makes the rules and enforces them. Those are not airline employees that you see manning the security checkpoints.

If you think that it is so terrible that you can't take a bottle of water, why not ask the families of 9/11 victims if they think that airport security is too strict? I'll bet that they don't find it to be such a pain.

If you can't afford $2 for a bottle of water in the secure area, then maybe you shouldn't be taking a trip. US airport security was a joke prior to 9/11 and thousands of people paid for it with their lives. As silly as some of the new rules are, I'm glad that they are at least trying to make flying safer.

Answer 4

The security issue has been exploited by the Governments to the hilt in virtually every country: not only the US. It is very easy to create a fear psychosis by stupid negative statements like "do you want to crash and burn": and justify all in the name of it: starting from harassment of genuinely bonafide passengers who happen to have a specific name to absurd security regulations that have again no meaning.

Do I want security measures: yes of course! But do I support obviously commercially motivated measures like not being able to carry in a bottle of water? No. It is not insane to detain passengers who look different or speak differently just to make other people feel safe?

The real issue here is that the normal policies and common sense have been utterly taken over by some fear mongering scumbags, who get a kick out of making people crawl just because they have the power to do so. These little ceasers will give you a hard time just because you dared to talk to them, yet are stupid and a*****e enough not to know the procedures.

recently, when I was passing through London Heathrow, a punk in a uniform asked me to go to the body scanner. I hate its intrusiveness, and I asked him that I wanted to be hand searched rather than go to the scanner. That guy did not know that I did have the right to choose and I had a tough time in telling him about their own policies.  

Answer 5

Doofus.  They're not AIRLINE rules.

These are FEDERAL LAWS under the guise of Homeland Security, and the Transportation Security Act.

Don't like it, don't fly.  Drive, take the train or go Greyhound.

Complain to that idiot in the White House.