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September 11th and Transportation Law
On the morning of September 11th, 2011, the United States of America felt the full fury of an enemy which had been lying in wait for decades, planning an attack of spectacularly tragic proportions that would shake the nation to its core. The weapons of choice for Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda terrorist network were not bullets or bombs, but airplanes which were ruthlessly hijacked and flown as missiles into New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and fatefully, an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. With the collapse of both of the Twin Towers and the immediate loss of over 3,000 lives, the American aviation industry was suddenly transformed from a once proud symbol of our national strength into a scapegoat for society's shattered complacency. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, with images of smoldering rubble streaming live on television for weeks on end, the public and politicians alike clamored for Congressional action to address what appeared to a gaping hole in our national...
Several drafts of aviation and transportation security legislation were proposed to address these concerns, with some falling by the wayside in committee and others paving the way for sweeping revisions to federal and local law. By examining the language and directives found in two examples of this legislation, one of which was voted down in Congress and another which stands today as the law of the land, we can learn how the shock of unexpected tragedy can lead to rash and reactionary decision making by those in a position of power.
The controversial Transportation Security Enhancement Act of 2001, which was proposed just one month after 9/11 and eventually died in committee, planned to "amend Federal transportation law to establish in the Department of Transportation (DOT) the Transportation Security Administration & #8230; responsible for security in all modes of transportation, including: (1) civil aviation security; and…
References
H.R. 3110 -- 107th Congress: Transportation Security Enhancement Act of 2001. (2001). In GovTrack.us (database of federal legislation). Retrieved June 25, 2012, from http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/107/hr3110
107th United States Congress, (2001). Public law 107 -- 71 -- nov. 19, 2001: The aviation and transportation security act. Retrieved June 25 from U.S. Government Printing Office website: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ71/pdf/PLAW-107publ71.pdf
Law Enforcement On September 11, 2001, almost a decade past, the world was not only shocked by the events surrounding the terrorist actions against the United States, but the basic mission of law enforcement; local, regional, state, federal, and international, has dramatically changed. Since 9/11, the most basic mission of law enforcement has been to both uncover and anticipate potential terrorist targets and attacks and do anything and everything to prevent
Aviation Business Ethics and Sept. 11 Industry Implications On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists passed through several security checkpoints at three United States airports and proceeded to hijack four commercial jets. The horror began at 8:45 A.M. Two hours later, more than three thousand people were killed in New York City, rural Pennsylvania and Arlington, Virginia (Duffy, 2002). shattered the nation's sense of safety and security and forever changed the way people
September 11th shocked and enraged many people, in the United States and around the world. With that shock came a cry for change, a tightening of the open and free society in which we live. September 11th was an unprecedented occurrence, leaving many people personally affected and still others traumatized by the severity of the events and the seemingly senseless act against civilians. "What happened on September 11 is
Of course, not all of the counterterrorism methods will work, and there will certainly be changes, alterations, and even the disbanding of some of the things the government has done to help prevent further attacks. Clearly, the nation has learned quite a bit from the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The people learned the country was vulnerable to attacks never before imagined. They learned that thousands of people could die in
Terrorism After September 11, the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration ramped up airport security in the interests of preventing terrorism. One of the most controversial methods the TSA used was to implement new passenger screeners. Although X-ray and backscatter technologies had been used in high-security government agencies, they had not been used on a large scale for the general public until after September 11 (Mackey, n.d.). The
September 11 The impact of the attacks on the United States has been far reaching and has touched all Americans in some way. Life as we knew it prior to the attacks was changed forever on that morning in profound ways that mean losses for nearly everyone, with the exception of those standing to profit from "war." While the attack resulted in loss of life for some, others lost their