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...movie has to do is show us a familiar, alarming menace - the aforementioned snakes - slithering around in a closed, inescapable space - the aforementioned airplane - threatening its customary human cargo, which will be familiar to anyone who remembers passenger list of, say, The High and the Mighty or the Airport series of yore. You know this crowd - the brave, the mean, the selfish, the feckless, most of whom, when the crisis peaks, are capable of being whipped into an effective fighting force by a peerless leader, in this instance personified by Samuel L. Jackson's Neville Flynn, an FBI agent escorting...
...They chuck them. "TSA-confiscated items are discarded in the same way we discard other prohibited items," says TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe. If you get to the airport and suddenly realize you forgot to take your favorite face cream out of your purse, look around the screening area; some airports have a U.S. Mail drop box that allows you to send prohibited items to your destination and pay with a credit card or cash...
...Political correctness of any sort is not how to go about airport security, on passengers or screeners, and I think people can accept that if it means being safer...
...Before Sept. 11, 2001, Argenbright was CEO of the world's largest private airport security screening firm, the 20-year-old, Atlanta-based Argenbright Security, which had 25,000 employees screening passengers at 44 domestic and 28 European airports. That business vanished soon thereafter when the Transportation Security Administration was created. Argenbright started his new company, AirServ, in 2002, contracting with airlines to provide workers who check passenger IDs at checkpoints, along with services such as ticket processing, bus transportation and cargo handling. And now that his business once again could be supplanted by the federal government, the airline security...
...head of the company whose screeners worked at two of the three airports targeted on Sept. 11 - Newark and Washington's Dulles - Argenbright quickly became a scapegoat in the aftermath of the terror attacks. On Oct. 12, 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly announced that parent company "Argenbright Holdings continues to violate laws that protect the safety of Americans who travel by commercial airlines." Ashcroft based his comments on a 1999 guilty plea and agreement Argenbright had made with the federal government when a screener at a Pennsylvania airport was busted for drug possession, which led to evidence that...