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2010-01-01 Home Front: WoT

US Scanners Went Unused At Nigeria Airport

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Posted by Sherry 2010-01-01 14:27|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Nigerian airport doesn't _need_ the scanners. It's not like Al Qaeda's going to blow up an airliner going to or from Nigeria.

These are forms of economic warfare, and they already more or less own Nigeria already. Maybe if one of the oppressed minority groups were to make the leap to blowing up airliners... in which case the government there would probably just use profiling with a vengeance on the subject tribes, and leave the citizen tribes alone.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-01 16:18|| 2010-01-01 16:18|| Front Page Top

#2 IF we recognize this as a form of economic warfare, AND if we discriminate between those who _are_ practicing economic warfare against us, and those who _aren't_, there might be a point to doing this sort of profiling ourselves.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-01 16:46|| 2010-01-01 16:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe Genghis Khan was onto something. It is said that during his reign, a woman could travel alone with a bag of gold from Persia to China and back and not have a moment's trouble.

While we catch criminals, cool their heels a while in a comfy prison and then send them back home, they continue to slaughter our people.

Maybe it is time to take a different approach.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-01-01 20:42|| 2010-01-01 20:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Another idea occured to me.

We shouldn't have _given_ the equipment to Nigeria. It should have been a loan, with the understanding that "You screw up, you don't get to keep it."

In fact, I'd have also liked to have seen something like "OK, your security screwed up, you don't get to have a direct connection with the US" put into effect.

Something to think about if we ever get a more representative government.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-01 21:21|| 2010-01-01 21:21|| Front Page Top

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