security at airports

[waddo]

Redacted!

[Kanonier]

Got it, thanks for that explanation Waddo, us Pongos are a bit thick when it comes to that sort of thing - that's why we were issued with a Yellow Card! I shall print it off for future reference, but I have just had a thought, would I look suspicious doing a comparison at the airport?

[Hippocampus]

yeah yeah yeah! Wrong choice of words, "anyone suspicious" but glad I gave everyone a laugh. What I meant was the same kind of scenario as happens at customs, let everyone through who more or less definitely does not pose a threat, use one's profiling training on the rest, and do a few random checks to keep people on their toes.

[DenBoy]

Don't mean to be a killjoy - reading this from the UK but I could just as easily be in Syria or Iraq and not a very nice person if you know what I mean.

Talking about airport security or lack of it, is it really needed on a public forum ??

Whilst I wasn't born during the war years I remember the poster with the words 'Keep our secrets Secret' and 'Careless talk costs Lives'.

Reading other postings I see someone has emailed the said authorities. I am not sure how a reply could be disseminated for the same reasons

[flowerfairy]

DenBoy, I think we may be like minded. I just hope that no ''undesirable'' people read this thread.
I have been following it over the past few days, but didn't comment for fear of repercussions.
Apparently Cyprus is/was one of the safest places at the moment. If anyone dodgy out there reads this, God help us.!!!!!

I don't mind them reading about the best place to buy a Cornish pastie, but lack of airport security???

[Johnny Lee]

The last two posts make a lot of sense. To the person who said my comment was racist, absolute nonsense. It was simply pointing out a fact. I am not racist in anyway shape or form.

Kieth, not guilty, just checked and I am still male.

[DenBoy]

Perhaps one of the 'moderators' should delete the whole thread to safeguard each & everyone's security.

It makes sense to me and surely it's what the 'moderators' are there for.

[ardstrawray]

Perhaps one of the 'moderators' should delete the whole thread to safeguard each & everyone's security.

It makes sense to me and surely it's what the 'moderators' are there for
Too late, you can probably read it on Google.

[waddo]

MODS!

Please edit Posts 47 and 52 as the original version of my post 46 has been repeated there.

Posts 25, 46 and 51 have been edited/redacted to save the fate of the world, just in case terrorists have access to the Internet and consider that the information given would be of vital use to their aim.

Sleep safe.

[DenBoy]

I suppose I should have expected a disrespectful/flippant answer from someone.

From what I have read and experienced it would appear to be true what people are saying/feeling.

I Remember Lockerbie 12/1988, I remember New York 11/09/2001, I remember London 7/2005 and more recently I remember Tunisia 7/2015 - if that is not enough evidence of inadequate security then I don't know what is.

Waddo, I have no personal beef with you - I WILL NOT post on this subject again.

Dennis

[waddo]

DenBoy, I have no beef with anyone, I will simply go with the flow. If people want to hide their heads in the sand that is fine with me but everything I have posted on here is in the public domain and can be found all over the place by anyone at all. I always believed in the saying "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know", I prefer to know as much as I can, it enables me to make decisions based on knowledge instead of just guessing.

If I have made a disrespectful or flippant answer then you have my apologies, my last post was not meant as such but simply to remove information that people felt would be harmful.

Like you, I will not post on this subject again. Take care out there.

[Ragged Robin]

Don't mean to be a killjoy - reading this from the UK but I could just as easily be in Syria or Iraq and not a very nice person if you know what I mean.

Talking about airport security or lack of it, is it really needed on a public forum ??

Whilst I wasn't born during the war years I remember the poster with the words 'Keep our secrets Secret' and 'Careless talk costs Lives'.

Reading other postings I see someone has emailed the said authorities. I am not sure how a reply could be disseminated for the same reasons

One hopes the authorities have the sense not to divulge any secret security precautions they made have taken, but hidden from "undesirables" , which of necessity means they are not obvious to the general public.

People forget that Turkish Cypriots do have some experience of terrorism - genocide even- within living memory. Indeed some of them , and some expats , have lived with the threat every minute of their daily lives. That is why a contingent of the modern rather efficient Turkish Army are here. And it is a small island and there are three other armed forces on it (who would probably cooperate in the event of a mutual threat). Perhaps despite (or maybe because of its own troubles) the Island is not such a soft target?

iI spent my childhood under the shadow of austerity following WW2 and with relatives who had lived thorugh two world wars. I have been shot at by one terrorist organisation and under bomb threat from another (not personally, just case of wrong place at wrong time and both missed!) and survived. I resent having my declining years made difficult by measures politically engineered to stir up fear and hatred. My worry about of airports, is a claustophic fear being trapped in the event of an emergency in a panicking crowd, unnessarily large because of the so called security measures..

[Johnny Lee]

Took our grandson to Ercan this morning, it was an absolute delight to go there , Check in time was 3 minutes, no one else waiting, long leg seats, (no extra charge), passport control 40 seconds. Yes all monitors are being checked and they took his water away . That was the only downside. Then the Car park was 6 T.L.

In my book this is one hell of a good airport.