Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Airport Security (or lack of it) NFC - No Ferrari Content - OT

[Jim Conforti (lndshrk]

On 12/28/2010 6:25 AM, Michael James wrote:
> Dunno what the Pilot is bitching about - it's common-knowledge that a
> single card-swipe can get you access to fueled, and boarded aircraft on
> the ramp.  Not "Anyone" can get those cards, however.  The background
> checks and paperwork-vetting is very stiff for that level of access, and
> has been so for years

  The background check for a TS clearance or a TS/SCI clearance is a few
  orders-of-magnitude more difficult to pass thru than an SIDA badge.

  That didn't stop Bradley Manning from siphoning gigs of classified
  data from SIPRNET with malice aforethought.

  Didn't stop Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen, John & Michael Walker, or
  any of the other people who have had a serious clearance and abused
  it, betraying the public trust and their country.

  A background check isn't a "foreground" check - every TLA and most
  numbnutz liberals seem to forget that.

  It tells you that someone has never been arrested or convicted for
  a crime - doesn't tell you that they haven't COMMITTED one, and
  certainly doesn't tell you that they aren't PLANNING to commit one!

  Every gate agent, and many ticket counter people have SIDA badges.

  Try a few lifestyle or CI polys if you think a SIDA badge is tough
  to obtain.

  Distillation: The pilot was completely right in his demonstration
  of the irony (and ineffectiveness) of DHS/TSA "security theater".

  JEC