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

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

Well, it wasn't hard for me :

 

I didn't have a rap sheet anywhere - if you've never been arrested, FOR ANYTHING, there's really nothing for anyone to review.

 

I didn't marry someone from a Ukranian 'Modelling' Catalog (bummer).

 

I don't vacation in Cuba or Pakistan.  In fact, I never left the country unless on official business.

 

I never dabbled in 'recreational pharmaceuticals' or abused alcohol to the point of ever making an ass out of myself.

 

I didn't have any 'foreign' friends, and wasn't much of a 'club joiner', especially anything political.

 

I never spent more money than I had to the point of credit-score people taking notice.

 

In short, other than filling out the forms and waiting six months, it was EASY.  Bear in mind, the wait is LONG and the costs associated with the processing and the investigations are EXPENSIVE.  This isn't the sort of thing you want done for a guy who drives a catering-truck or loads suitcases into the belly of an airplane.  You do it for people who safeguard specific types of information that Uncle Sam considers highly-important stuff.  If the Airlines had to screen their people the way the DoD does, modern air travel would come to a stand-still.

 

People who have rather-devout religious beliefs - practicing Muslims, Mormons, Pentacostals, etc. also breeze-through the process.  They're as boring as I am.

 

M

--- On Wed, 12/29/10, philville [at] windstream.net <philville [at] windstream.net> wrote:

From: philville [at] windstream.net <philville [at] windstream.net>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Airport Security (or lack of it) NFC - No Ferrari Content - OT
To: "Michael James" <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com>, "Phil Tegtmeier" <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 10:24 AM

Now you are scaring me,   "not that hard to obtain"
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---- Michael James <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> BFD.  I've had those clearances, too and they're not that hard to obtain if you're not in a college Fraternity or don't live like you are.  If you're a 'good guy', and have the kind of lifestyle that most practicing muslims observe, you'd get every clearance in the world.  Think about it. 
>  
> M
>
> --- On Tue, 12/28/10, Jim Conforti <lndshrk [at] xmission.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Jim Conforti <lndshrk [at] xmission.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Airport Security (or lack of it) NFC - No Ferrari Content - OT
> To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 2:39 PM
>
>
> 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
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