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2011-12-05 Home Front: WoT

Another Elderly Woman Says She Was Exposed At Kennedy Airport

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Posted by gorb 2011-12-05 12:04|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Bullshit on the Irish comment. It's just another half ass excuse to wipe their asses with the Bill of Rights. Security Theatre.

Israel doesnt strip search grannies, unless they are real threats. Nor do they put members of their own armed forces outbound for deployment through this bullshit either.

I know a guy who was on Bush's security detail after 9-11, not the guys who ride in AF1, but other guys, we'll leave it at that. No shit, he had a brief case with a freakin machine gun in it, which he was obviously authorized to have, and a diet coke from Macdonalds. As he went through security checkpoint to board a flight back to DC from Nebraska, TSA agent told him and i quote" Baby you caint take that drink through security, it's potentially dangerous. He says and this freggin machine gun I have here?, which she had already checked. TSA-"I dont know nothin about that baby, you just caint take that drink."
Security theatre....This justification is all complete bullshit and we all know it. Institute Israeli security procedures across the western world and we'll cut flight incidents down to zero or near it.

Posted by Ominous1 2011-12-05 14:04|| 2011-12-05 14:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Ominous1, I agree it's theater. And I do not doubt an awful lot is stopped that doesn't matter, and an awful lot isn't that does. A number of other knowledgeable people have pointed that out here at Rantburg, and I believe you all.

It seems to me, however, that the theater discourages Sudden Jihad Syndromers and other amateurs from attempting things, making the more serious attempts easier for the serious guards to see against the background. And -- and I think this is important, even if the people who really know what they're about may not -- it reminds the rest of us that there really are murderers out there, and that we civilians must also be a pack, not a herd. We've had a number of stories posted here over the years of groups of bright, young Muslims (or older ones, like that bunch of imams coming from a convention a few years ago) testing responses. Even pretty subtle behaviors are galvanizing a response these days; it was only a few weeks ago that student field trip from Oman or Dubai or wherever had to be apologized to after they were pulled from a flight and questioned.

I wish it were better handled. Mr. Wife still travels a lot for work, so he gets to enjoy the show regularly.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-12-05 16:05|| 2011-12-05 16:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Any candidate who announces:

1) We're shutting down the TSA.
2) We're handing out baseball bats to all boarding airline passengers

has my vote.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-12-05 18:20|| 2011-12-05 18:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Evening News says she's going to sue, Won't help assholes, just scream as loud as you can WHILE being scanned.

If she puts an end to scanning Old Ladies, Watch for an Influx of terrorists disguised as old ladies, thanks for nothing Bitch.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-12-05 20:03|| 2011-12-05 20:03|| Front Page Top

#5 1) We're shutting down the TSA.
2) We're handing out baseball bats to all boarding airline passengers

LOL!

Posted by gorb 2011-12-05 20:41|| 2011-12-05 20:41|| Front Page Top

#6 The solution was applied on 9/11 - Let's roll. There have been a handful of incidents since then when some 'passenger' [who'd already cleared TSA] has acted out and the crew and other passengers solved the problem immediately.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-12-05 21:47|| 2011-12-05 21:47|| Front Page Top

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