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From: Martin Riddle on 26 Dec 2009 18:40 "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:ol3dj5h84quqkdbn6gefuteneg7rhmqi13(a)4ax.com... > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27security.html > > So a guy tried to detonate a bomb during the last hour of a flight. > The TSA morons thus conclude that all terrorists detonate their bombs > in the last hour, so make it illegal to get out of your seat during > those 60 minutes. They are clearly assuming that the bombers are > dumber than they are; I have my doubts. > > The real issue is why they let a Nigerian, festooned with explosives, > on a terrorist watch list, onto the plane in the first place. I > suppose searching people who look like they might be terrorists would > be "profiling" or "invasion or privacy" or something. > > They did give my 90-year old father a full, very rude pull-aside > screening because he had a one-way ticket out of Louisiana after > Katrina. I once got super-harassed and triple searched because my > ticket had a "payment basis" of "A", and nobody knew what "A" meant. I > think it meant American Express. > > (If they search you three times, they seem to be assuming that the > first two searches were incompetant.) > > Idiots. Always fighting the last battle. > > John > > Great make all this public knowledge, now the terrorists are better educated. And what about Nigeria, and Amsterdam? Everything status quo? Cheers
From: Raveninghorde on 26 Dec 2009 19:36 On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:45:25 -0800, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > > >http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27security.html > >So a guy tried to detonate a bomb during the last hour of a flight. >The TSA morons thus conclude that all terrorists detonate their bombs >in the last hour, so make it illegal to get out of your seat during >those 60 minutes. They are clearly assuming that the bombers are >dumber than they are; I have my doubts. > >The real issue is why they let a Nigerian, festooned with explosives, >on a terrorist watch list, onto the plane in the first place. I >suppose searching people who look like they might be terrorists would >be "profiling" or "invasion or privacy" or something. > >They did give my 90-year old father a full, very rude pull-aside >screening because he had a one-way ticket out of Louisiana after >Katrina. I once got super-harassed and triple searched because my >ticket had a "payment basis" of "A", and nobody knew what "A" meant. I >think it meant American Express. > >(If they search you three times, they seem to be assuming that the >first two searches were incompetant.) > >Idiots. Always fighting the last battle. > >John > I agree. They are idiots. I got caught at an airport the day they caught the liquid bombers. Huge queues and utter chaos. On that morning 1 terrorist could have wiped out thousands in an over crowded airport.
From: Charles on 26 Dec 2009 19:37 "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message news:ol3dj5h84quqkdbn6gefuteneg7rhmqi13(a)4ax.com... > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27security.html According to Archie Bunker: "All the airlines have to do to end skyjackings is arm the passengers." http://www.tvparty.com/family.html
From: PeterD on 26 Dec 2009 20:03 On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:45:25 -0800, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > > >http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27security.html > >So a guy tried to detonate a bomb during the last hour of a flight. >The TSA morons thus conclude that all terrorists detonate their bombs >in the last hour, so make it illegal to get out of your seat during >those 60 minutes. I coudl be wrong, but I don't think he got out of his seat to do it, and as well, neither did the previous failure, either. > They are clearly assuming that the bombers are >dumber than they are; I have my doubts. > >The real issue is why they let a Nigerian, festooned with explosives, >on a terrorist watch list, onto the plane in the first place. See where the flight came from... >I >suppose searching people who look like they might be terrorists would >be "profiling" or "invasion or privacy" or something. > >They did give my 90-year old father a full, very rude pull-aside >screening because he had a one-way ticket out of Louisiana after >Katrina. I once got super-harassed and triple searched because my >ticket had a "payment basis" of "A", and nobody knew what "A" meant. I >think it meant American Express. > >(If they search you three times, they seem to be assuming that the >first two searches were incompetant.) Well, actually they probably were, but then again, so probably was the third... > >Idiots. Always fighting the last battle. > >John >
From: Jamie on 26 Dec 2009 21:01
Charles wrote: > "John Larkin" <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in message > news:ol3dj5h84quqkdbn6gefuteneg7rhmqi13(a)4ax.com... > >> >>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27security.html > > > According to Archie Bunker: "All the airlines have to do to end skyjackings > is arm the passengers." > > http://www.tvparty.com/family.html > > Yes, things were so much safer back when it was required by law to carry a firearm. It just leads to greater employment opportunities for police and the like so that we have to pay more taxes and still, the criminals have all the guns they need and no worries about using them, because they know the general joe has nothing to shoot back with or would be afraid to use it in fear of getting sued by the criminals. It's time to play cowboys and criminals! |