Week 10 reflection:

This week while we were talking about the terrorist threats and security measures we could take against them the TSA and other airport security measures were brought up and deemed pretty much useless. We said that most terrorist attacks are uncoiled by our intelligence agencies before they reach airport security. In that case do we still need airport security measures?

We absolutely need them. Do you want to take the chance? What if someone was going crazy and acted on his or her own accord and decided that they wanted to bring a gun or homemade bomb on a plane. How would you stop them if you had minimal or no security? That’s right you wouldn’t, and you’d have 200+ dead civilians on your hands. Having the massive security measures with the full body scanners and the somewhat impatient TSA agents do cause some fear in people, there would be a lot more fear if you could just walk onto a plane without going through security. Some say that we are legitimizing terrorists with having security check points. I think that they are legitimate to an extent. We take what they say seriously, for example if they say we are going to bomb the Eiffel tower then there is a lot more security at the Eiffel tower. Others think that since we upgraded security at airports after 9/11 we forced the terrorist to upgrade in their attacks and threats. If we didn’t upgrade and the terrorists didn’t try to adapt they would commit the same attacks as we sat back and watched. We’re in a war where we are constantly trying to be more clever than the terrorists the vice versa. The only way to stay secure is to make sure you always have the biggest stick and that you’re swinging it.

Back to the security check points. They are necessary, we need to do everything in our power to try and stop attacks on our country and this is just one step we could take. If the people think that security at airports is getting to extreme and the government takes a step back on it. If an attack happens everyone will look at the government and say “well you should have known better and not listened to us”.