Passengers can expect double screening (Sticking it to everyone equally in the name of security)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/10/06 | Leslie Miller - ap

[longtermmemmory]

nothing will change until Islam is properly and publicly designated the blood cult that it is.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I'm going to guess that - if for no other reason than the economy of the airport concessions - passengers will be able to purchase "cleared" sodas, waters, toiletries, etc. once past the first tier of security.

Yes. From the Black Muslim Bakery. ;)

[reformedliberal]

I have no problem with profiling, but it wouldn't mean a thing with delays and security intrusions. There are blond Muslims, Anglo girlfriends of Muslims. The mother of one of the jihadi arrested in the UK was English and his father was an Iranian
who drank alcohol.

They could waste their time examining me, because I look Middle Eastern. And I am a 63-yr-old Midwestern lady. I could be the mother of a jihadi.

I no longer fly a lot, either. But the flying I did after 9/11 wasn't the horror I had been led to believe. I have had worse delays, plane malfunctions, reroutings and lost luggage before.

The Brits and those Americans I saw/heard today were wonderful. Except for Schumer, they displayed calm and patience in the face of suddenly arduous changes in security, along with the fear they must have experienced.

That is how I believe we need to react. Getting angry and looking for someone close at hand (the government) to blame and scapegoat is juvenile, IMO.

Our enemies can at least take comfort that the Bush Administration will get blamed for the situation, instead of the terrorists.

[ichabod1]

Don't forget there are many blue-eyed/blond-haired muslims, along with blacks and Asians.

Well they haven't managed to convinced any of them to kill themselves committing an outrage, have they. Nobody's saying to *ignore* everybody else, but to spend more resources on the obvious suspects.

And the thing that get's lost every time is the fact that, assuming they're not terrorists, it's for THEIR protection too!

[ichabod1]

what happens IF the next time they try to sneak something onto a plane and have it hidden in a body cavity??

It is believed that muslim women did this very thing when blowing up two airliners in Russia at the same time.

[NormsRevenge]

I hear ya to a degree. I just find it unfortunate that we have the whole travelling nation paying the price for it and not perhaps understanding why.

Part of that fault is the public itself in not being more demanding that those who seek to endanger us are called to task for their actions or intended actions.

A side note, the latest plot was uncovered thru the use of eavesdropping, something the left is all up in arms over, so hopefully, the long term effect will be to repudiate and neuter the appeasers amongst us and their arguments that we need to be less involved in monitoring domestic and foreign communications when the need ot doso is identified.

[conservative cat]

Ok, someone answer me this..what happens..what happens IF the next time they try to sneak something onto a plane and have it hidden in a body cavity?? it's not out of the realm of possibility considering these guys will go through any lengths to blow stuff up and need ways to get it onboard..

Mr. Cat and I were discussing this today. Drug smugglers hide it in their cavities, in their stomach, etc.

[LWalk18]

Well they haven't managed to convinced any of them to kill themselves committing an outrage, have they.

The shoe bomber was half black and half English, I believe.

[NormsRevenge]

Ben Franklin correctly said "those who would sacrifice liberty in order to gain temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety".


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Both Bill Obloviator and a Civil liberties lawyer attributed that quote to Thomas Jefferson.

[philetus]

How long is this going to be tolerated?

As long as there are morons in charge of security.

[chickenlips]

Plus, must of them know how to knit an Afghan!

[FreedomCalls]

[NormsRevenge]

The irony is this occurs just as airlines are starting to show profits, even as we have a price pinch as a result of fuel costs.

[letsgonova19087]

We're hispanic-looking with very dark skin and get "profilied" all the time...get sent through special bomb machines, extra screening, whole nine yards. Doesn't bother us a bit...because, like everybody else, gets nervous when they see a shifty-looking arab guy get on a plane. I do, however, get annoyed when I see a 76 year old woman getting put through the bomb machine.

[My2Cents]

Are they not allowing toothpaste?

[lightman]

nothing will change until Islam is properly and publicly designated the blood cult that it is.

Well, I've been trying here on FR to promote calling Islam "the religion of pieces". With their fetish for homicide bombing, amputations, and beheadings it is one piece here, one piece there....

[DakotaRed]

If they don't search and scrutinize everybody, they are accused of "profiling." When we should be profiling, we cannot due to PC. So, we inspect everyone and after a bunch of the same repetitive searching of obviously safe people, a tired or bored TSA agent just may miss the one he really should be searching.

[DakotaRed]

If they don't search and scrutinize everybody, they are accused of "profiling." When we should be profiling, we cannot due to PC. So, we inspect everyone and after a bunch of the same repetitive searching of obviously safe people, a tired or bored TSA agent just may miss the one he really should be searching.

[chs68]

"Let's just all fly nude. Let's carry this to its logical conclusion and strip."

Heavens, NOOOOOO!!!!

Even the possibility of seeing someone like Rosie O'Donnell or Helen Thomas nude at an airport is enough to send me to the EDGE!

[dawn53]

Here's the link and an excerpt:

http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/threat-change.shtm

NO LIQUIDS OR GELS OF ANY KIND WILL BE PERMITTED IN CARRY-ON BAGGAGE. ITEMS MUST BE IN CHECKED BAGGAGE. This includes all beverages, shampoo, suntan lotion, creams, tooth paste, hair gel, and other items of similar consistency.