Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0762423765 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Smerconish, Esq. hosts a daily morning-drive talk show in Philadelphia. He is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, and has appeared on CNBC, O'Reilly Factor, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Today.. Michael A
Exposes the absurdities that pass for airline security To put it bluntly, "political correctness" has made a chronic mess of post-911 efforts to secure our country from Islamic terrorist attacks on our airlines, on our seaports, on our borders, on our infrastructure, and on our cities. Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues To Compromise Airline Safety Post by radio talk sho. PC Policies that put us at greater risk. "Flying Blind" refers to the way our politically correct policies on screening passengers before flight effectively blind our security apparatus to the most likely dangers. The author, Michael Smerconish, is a radio personality in Philadelphia. He got on this issue when he was taking a flight with his family and his eight year old . A true wake up call for the airline industry! Josh Mostel I would have to say that if anyone starts touting this a "right-wing" book, then I accuse them of having not read the book at all. (Merely seeing the words doesn't count, just as hearing and listening are very different.)Michael Smerconish writes a great book about how silly and ineffective our airline security has become. Perhaps
The issue first came to light during the 9/11 Commission hearings, and Smerconish's investigation gets to the heart of it. Government documents, testimony from the 9/11 hearings and the June 24, 2004 special Senate hearing, on-the-record conversations with major airline officials and government representatives from the TSA and the Pentagon, personal experience, and various news stories and first-person accounts, Smerconish weaves together a stunning portrait of our flawed and failing airline security structure, and offers a strong solution.In
Tracing down the decisions that led to these policies in detail—and decrying the policies themselves—Smerconish argues that the U.S. From Publishers Weekly Flying with his family, Smerconish, a radio talk-show host and newspaper columnist based in Philadelphia, twice had his eight-year-old son chosen for "secondary screening"—and was twice able to substitute himself without incident, despite his carrying odd-looking electronic broadcast gear. should give some weight to stereotypes. All rights reserved. Mulling the ease with which he made it though the process, he then learned of a federal policy to fine airlines "if they have more than two young Arab males in secondary questioning." (The actual testimony from an airline industry rep was that the Justice Department said a screening system would be discriminatory if it flagged more than three people of the same ethnic origin.) Contacting the