Blake Scholl: belief

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…You think we should return to the pre-9/11 regime? My friends can meet me at the gate. They don’t need a boarding pass. There’s no scanner. Something like that. I think we are actually safer than we were on 9/11 in two important respects. One is reinforced cockpit doors. Those are a good idea. We should keep those. Another is that the passengers know to fight back. This effect happened so quickly. It is why the fourth airplane didn’t make it into the White House on September 11. The passengers got the word that this was not just a money heist, that they were being converted into a missile. They knew to fight back, and they won. Those two things did make us meaningfully safer. Not filtering box cutters and preventing us from bringing bottles of water, none of that makes anything safer. I think we should have a trusted traveler program. Anybody who flies as much as I do and has never taken an airplane down should be trusted. This is not complicated. The complex, difficult parts here are about how you do the political transitions. That’s the unsolved problem, not airport security. I’ve been to a lot of countries in the world. I’m sure you have, too. I’ve never seen a country that doesn’t in some way copy the US system. Why is there so much implicit regulatory cartelization? No one is willing to do anything very different.…

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