OT: Fight them where?

It gets worse. Couple your story with the link following, and you've got a nightmare in the making. Be sure to read all links. This is Homeland Security?

Just imagine what it was like before Homeland security, prior to 9/11!!

My guess is they think it's OK to shut down security because when it's night in Phoenix, it's daytime in Iraq, so our troops are keeping anything from happening here. You know: Fight them there so we don't have to fight them here.

Before 9/11, 75% of all test contraband got through airport security checkpoints unnoticed.

A few months after 9/11, 75% of all test contraband got through airport security checkpoints unnoticed.

A year after TSA took over airport security, 75% of all test contraband got through airport security checkpoints unnoticed.

Today, 75% of all test contraband goes through airport security checkpoints unnoticed.

We are indeed safer now.

In message news: snipped-for-privacy@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com, sprach forth the following:

George W. Bush likes dancing to contrabands.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just a likely nutty idea, but if we really, REALLY wanted to improve security, we'd discourage airline travel by increasing fares by large numbers, and at the same time rebuild AMTRAK and lower the fares on rail trips so much that people couldn't afford NOT to travel by train. And make it mandatory that ALL baggage larger than a shaving kit would have to go in a baggage car and would be returned at the end of the journey. This way the probability of major damage would be so severely limited that the terrorists wouldn't be interested in pursuing it. The upside here is that our long neglected rail system could eventually be on a par with Europe and Japan. I realize that longer trips would still be almost exclusively by air, but the midlength trips are usually not that much longer by rail, once you consider that air terminals are not downtown, security procedures in air travel are long and frustrating, and so on. If rail travel were really improved (not bullet trains but better standard speed trains) not many folks would bother with airlines for the 300-500 mile trips. Just my 2c worth.

Have you taken a good look at who is doing the checking?? Ex-welfare reciprocates. That's who. They must have a bone to pick to be so stupid.

Mark_

Excellent ideas.

Mark_

This article suggests that things were found, so apparently, someone's finding them. Not the point, though. The point is that someone is probing our security arrangements, AND THEY ARE NOT COMING FROM IRAQ.

Or it could be that those pesky terrorist are thinking up ways to slow down the economy and antagonize the fretting mothers, and do it on the cheap. Nothing a few thousand more federal employees, or contract employees can't handle.

You don't know that you damned fool.....

You have NO idea where they are coming from.

You think they ARE coming from Iraq? Look at the article and refer to the 4 specific incidents mentioned by the TSA. Refer only to those 4 incidents.

Now where do you get these figures from?

Go f*ck yourself welcher....

Well, they're not really sure that it's true there are actually persons testing the system with devious intentions. It's entirely possible the DNC could be behind this. I surely hope not, but I wouldn't put it past them. They have unscrupulous motives and much to gain showing there are still problems with the inspections.

I'd like to see high speed rail such as what Japan and France have. It would give us another option of travel. I for one would use it.

Me too. Especially if it cut across Canada to Alaska. Wow what a thought!

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The TSA has corrected the problem, but how many other airports are guilty of this and more?

And this one will REALLY bake your noodle: