#62358 - 03/22/06 10:21 PM
Re: TSA: WHAT bomb materials?
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Geezer
Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
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Have you noticed that flight attendants place stable-looking, able-bodied passengers at the emergency exits?
Why not have regular volunteer citizens who have been trained and are experienced with pistols get licensed with hard-to-dulicate photo IDs, have them identify themselves when they check in for their seat assignment, and have the airline put them in "certain" seats that carry loaded weapons? Maybe they could wear sleeve garters or something so the rest of the passengers would know who they are, and who to go to if they saw trouble.
Personally, I would feel better if I knew there were a few people on board who could actually DO something. Then the other stupid rules about carrying multitools and Bics could be cancelled.
Didn't someone once say something like "Only a fool takes a knife to a gun fight"?
Norad, if they HAVEN'T been trained to look for certain types of explosives, what is all this Homeland Security crap been about?
Sue
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#62360 - 03/25/06 12:06 AM
Re: TSA: WHAT bomb materials?
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Veteran
Registered: 05/23/02
Posts: 1403
Loc: Brooklyn, New York
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I hate TSA. They are bunch of dumb, uneducated, ignorant, newly acquired power happy and useless people. That's usually what happenes when gov't creates an agency for public image. Sometimes I like to think of TSA as FEMA (all smoke and no fire). I think the assumption that TSA has about typical bomber is what they read in spy novels. I can just imagine TSA training center since it must be such a joke. After spending last year at the airport as a medic I prefer dealings with private sector security because they are much better and more efficient since job security if you keep screwing up is not there. You do something retarded working for private company and you get axed. You do something retarded working for TSA and they relocate you to more sensitive area.
I think I will market "TSA kit" that you can purchase from the street vendor upon leaving the airport. It will consist of nail clipper, mini SAK and lighter. Upon departing back home you can trade your kit in and get a voucher that can be used upon arrival. By the time you are done with traveling during your life span you will eventually get your stuff back. Or if you spot somebody in your city using your lighter or SAK you can ask them to trade.
Good portion of my calls? People pissed of by TSA for no reason.
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#62361 - 03/25/06 01:45 AM
Re: TSA: WHAT bomb materials?
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Geezer
Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
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"I think I will market 'TSA kit' that you can purchase from the street vendor upon leaving the airport."
You can probably get a really good deal from the TSA! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Norad, If all this TSA crap is just to "make people feel safe flying", I am even MORE PO'd than before I read that. All it takes is someone with more grey matter than a TSA agent (not difficult) to bring something on board that is instantly going to change the whole warm-&-fuzzy plans of our idiot politicians.
"It is not about actually preventing terrorist attacks. That is accomplished by spying on potential terrorists... and then arresting them if warranted."
A.The chances that the FBI even knows who a fraction of the terrorists in the U.S. are is extremely remote, &
B. I doubt they would know where to find them if they were living next door to them.
And your assurance that everything "seems to be working very well" leaves me open-mouthed with disbelief. <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
Sue
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#62365 - 03/26/06 03:28 PM
Re: TSA: WHAT bomb materials?
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Veteran
Registered: 12/12/04
Posts: 1204
Loc: Nottingham, UK
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> Then I would invite you to speculate on why we have not been attacked here in the last 4-1/2 years.
We've been attacked here in the UK. As far as I can tell, the attack came as a surprise, partly because it did not originate from a global terrorist network but from a small group of self-starters. (I know you were talking about the USA rather than the UK, but I don't think they are that different in this.)
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#62366 - 03/27/06 03:58 AM
Re: TSA: WHAT bomb materials?
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Geezer
Registered: 01/21/04
Posts: 5163
Loc: W. WA
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"Our enemies are at Guantanamo, or in other jails, and the ones who are not have the FBI crawling up their backs, tapping their phones, infiltrating their places of worship, and reading their emails."
Personally, I think that's just more feel-good mindlessness from the political PR dept. After all, weren't the FBI the ones who were supposed to be doing EXACTLY that kind of thing BEFORE 9/11? They did kind of a sloppy job, didn't they? What happened, did they just get religion and now they're actually doing their job?
Cynical Sue
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