Moving Airline Security Throughout the Nation
I invite the president and the Transportation secretary to consider a radically different transportation infrastructure:
1. Why not totally segregate the baggage danger by transporting passengers’ baggage via a separate system (cargo-only planes?) rather than on the same planes with the passengers? The baggage could then be separately screened and transported back to arriving passengers. This would eliminate the need for lengthy passenger screening. Yes, it would be expensive initially, but we would not be wasting money on inefficient screening/security firms, federal or private.
2. On trips up to three or four hours long, why not eliminate carry-ons?
3. Utilize a national ID card.
All this would render moot the federal versus private controversy, each side of which has benefits and disadvantages. It would make terrorism in the air that much more difficult to accomplish.
David Rubinstein
Sunland
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