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Monday, October 13, 2008
What is Obama Doing to Improve Airport Security
One reason I chose to create this blog on Homeland Security is because I believe this along with our nation's economic crisis are the two most important issues in the upcoming election. One of my greatest fears is a repeat of a catastrophe such as that of 9-11. I cant imagine being one of the persons who lost a love one due to the disaster. Also, this will be the second elected president of the Homeland Security era. Because Homeland Security, and in particular improving airport security, is such an important issue to me, I want to make sure the candidate I vote for has a strict and efficient plan for improving airport security.During my next to blogs I am going to compare both candidates views on how they plan to improve airport security. Senator Barack Obama is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. As a member of this committee, Senator Obama is and advocate believer in redoubling our governments efforts in determining if the measures implemented after 9-11 are adequately dealing with the threats the US continues to face from airplane-based terrorism. If elected as President, Obama plans to increase the amount of airports screening and increase and improve funding toward technological advancements in airport security. One other factor of concern Obama has is that airport passengers are still not screened against an advanced terrorist watch list. Developing such a list will protect a passengers privacy while insuring a safe flight. (www.barackobama.com)
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I think that it is great that the United States and its Presidential Candidates are continually planning on how to keep our country safe. I think that airport security is a great topic to discuss because sometimes I question how well our security works and if all the steps the guards make us do are necessary. I think that newer developments in airport security could be great because it would probably allow the lines to go by much faster, I just don't know how ideal that would be for our economy right now.
I am surprised that there isn't already any advanced terror list already. It seems like it would be a quite easy thing to implement also. I wonder if a advanced list would actually help protect privacy.
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