[Kharon]

Boats, busses, trains and planes.

It never fails to amuse me when I hear thick headed politicians banging on about how transport security is essential to 'aviation safety'. Why is it air travel creates such anxiety amongst these folk?

One may step onto a cruise boat with hundreds of people who have not been 'security' screened, get onto a crowded inner city bus with dozens of people who have not been subjected to 'security' checks; how many people a day get on and off trains – none screened, no identity checks, back packs, suitcases, brief cases, parcels and all the claptrap dragged around the country side – all day every day.

Yet to board an aircraft – to go anywhere, there is a whole profitable industry working away to keep you safe from a tube of toothpaste, a bottle of shampoo or an attack with nail clippers.

The whole thing is either mad or corrupt. Same as 'safety briefings' imagine getting on the Manly ferry and having to listen to the speel about where the life jackets are; or how to launch a lifeboat, or how not to land on your arse when the boat docks and the gangway is moving.

Compare that to the carnage, daily on our roads; then tell me where our 'safety' dollar would serve us best. Some folk have a funny idea of what 'danger' and 'risk analysis' really is. Bored to tears - just saying:-

Toot - toot.