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New Restrictions Quickly Added for Air Passengers
New York Times ^ | December 27, 2009 | Micheline Maynard and Liz Robbins

Posted on 12/27/2009 7:15:46 AM PST by reaganaut1

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To: heylady
you will no longer be able to use the bathroom

Sure you can. You just have to raise your hand and hold up one or two fingers.

21 posted on 12/27/2009 7:39:25 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK (I'm waiting for the POP!)
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To: reaganaut1
I'd like to take the Christian holiday moment to thank all those cowardly US muslims who refuse to condemn and fight islamic terrorism. Thanks for making me and my family wait in long lines to have our carry-ons scanned by high school dropouts who are sleep-walking through their shifts.

Thanks for making us take off our shoes and walk barefoot around filthy airport terminals. And of course I'd like to thank muslims everywhere for being forced to be 'wanded' and 'frisked' like a criminal before being allowed to board a flight. In addition, I can now thank them for a host of new idiotic rules designed to punish me because islamic mutants from the 9th century feel a need to kill me and my children.

When you combine the brutality and murder of muslims with our leftist communist government you can see why I'm so grateful this time of year as I look forward to future decades of mindless violence against Christians and Jews as well the complete destruction of American liberty and freedom by political criminals like Barry Hussein Obama.

22 posted on 12/27/2009 7:41:07 AM PST by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: reaganaut1
Because of the “shoe bomber” we all have to take off our shoes for the security checks. Since this guy had the device concealed in his crotch I guess we'll all have to drop our trousers, turn our heads, and cough for the TSA as they wave through the guy on the no-fly list.
23 posted on 12/27/2009 7:41:21 AM PST by eggman (Grab a mop Mr. Gibbs! Your boss is making another mess.)
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To: reaganaut1

What good does it do to tighten American Security when foreign airport security are the ones who allowed this latest terrorist passenger to board in the first place?

They still won’t profile the right kind of people. Just the granny in the wheel chair and the middle aged white guy. You know, the ones who aren’t of muslim origin


24 posted on 12/27/2009 7:41:46 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: Tarpon

It wasn’t a test; he meant to do it, because he certainly wouldn’t have wanted to tip his hand and reveal this new technique by a “test run.” He just blew it, possibly because the detonation source wasn’t close enough to the explosive or some other technical reason.

That said, I have read that this might slow down Bambi’s attempt to offload the remaining Gitmo prisoners. A very large number of them are from Yemen.


25 posted on 12/27/2009 7:42:04 AM PST by livius
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To: reaganaut1

Ahhhh welcome to the country of multiculturalism and egalitarianism. Where everyone and everything is ‘equal’. We are all equally criminals & widgets. No profiling, common sense or Liberty allowed.


26 posted on 12/27/2009 7:44:01 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: reaganaut1

Dumbass governor, now running a dumbass TSA!


27 posted on 12/27/2009 7:46:26 AM PST by BlazingArizona
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To: reaganaut1
Thank you for flying Con Air.

I wonder how much the handcuffs will cost on each flight?

28 posted on 12/27/2009 7:47:04 AM PST by Flag_This (ACORN delenda est)
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To: reaganaut1

Airlines will be passing out free condoms as well?


29 posted on 12/27/2009 7:47:22 AM PST by texanyankee
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To: reaganaut1

Lets really search granny and the kids now. But that guy with a prayer rug, go right ahead.


30 posted on 12/27/2009 7:47:27 AM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: eggman

You forgot about the gloved finger.


31 posted on 12/27/2009 7:48:10 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: Altura Ct.

Of course, many of those conservatives, who now support Obama’s foreign policy of Bush II, will not object to these new invasions of civil liberty.


32 posted on 12/27/2009 7:48:56 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: livius

Yes he meant it, but my point was — You never know what the al Qaeda leaders were up to, it may very well have been a security probing mission to see how security reacts. In this case, very badly. Especially now with our CIA dispensed with in the age of man caused disasters.

Maybe my point wasn’t made that clearly ...


33 posted on 12/27/2009 7:49:32 AM PST by Tarpon ( ...)
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“What idiocy. Someone could just do their mischief with 90 minutes left in the flight.”

I agree. This is just plain stupid!


34 posted on 12/27/2009 7:50:26 AM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: reaganaut1

Rahm Immanuel “leave no crisis to waste, to do the things that normally couldn’t be accomplished”.

How about tightening travel for Americans to make us less mobile. A gentle restriction on one of the freedoms we really have taken for granted........
Checkpoints at trains will be next.


35 posted on 12/27/2009 7:51:36 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: Tarpon

>>Government responds by denying potty breaks an hour before landing. Well what did you expect from BamBam and his dumb loons.<<

Agreed in totality. All the new rule does is push the terrorists’ time table up a bit — and punish passengers in the process.

Rules like this let the administration pretend it is Doing Something while causing more harm than good.

How soon until we see the coddling of this perp by these idiots, led by our muslim TOTUS-reader.


36 posted on 12/27/2009 7:52:13 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: reaganaut1
My fly/drive cutoff for business used to be about 4 hrs. That is, anyplace within a 4 hr drive, I'd drive rather than fly. Since it now takes basically an entire day lost for travel, my fly/drive timeline just moved out to about 12 hr drive.

And they wonder why the airline industry is going down the tubes.

37 posted on 12/27/2009 7:52:57 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (obama out now! I'll keep my money, my guns, and my freedom - you can keep the change.)
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To: reaganaut1

If the terrorists were “Branch Dividians” and David Korest was with us, does anyone think Janet and Dems would come up with this solution?


38 posted on 12/27/2009 7:54:27 AM PST by GOPJ (Rick Santelli for Man of the Year! - Freeper mewzilla)
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To: freedumb2003

They are reactionary only. I, too, travel frequently enough these days to spot the incomptency from a country mile away. Most of the TSA I come in contact with are okay...but there are enough bad ones, too.


39 posted on 12/27/2009 7:54:56 AM PST by SueRae
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To: heylady

“I hope they plan on passing out Depends since you will no longer be able to use the bathroom on flights less than 90 minutes.”

There will be arguments with the flight attendants. It will progress to pushing...

I know...I’ve been there when you’re sitting on the ground and waiting for over 30 minutes for clearance to takeoff. Somebody always has to use the lavatory when you’re instructed not to get out of your seat “under any circumstances.”

Flight attendants are cringing reading about the “new rules.” This is stupid.


40 posted on 12/27/2009 7:57:34 AM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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