You're right Val.
We should make them whip out the tit instead.
You're right Val.
We should make them whip out the tit instead.
This seems reasonable, BECAUSE, a terrorist who really wanted to smuggle some liquids onto the plane could use Ziploc bags and tape them to his or her body. So at a minimum we would need either strip searches or pat-downs for EVERYONE who gets on the plane, not just randomly.Originally Posted by imbondz
Also, I guess one of the suspects was a woman with a baby (so much for my profiling idea). Obviously you could hide a bag of liquid or gel in a diaper! So off to the special changing area for the baby's strip search.
Also the extra diapers would have to be thoroughly examined because you could conceal something in the lining of those.
Not to mention anyone's Depends.
I think I'm ready to wet my pants, as I contemplate all this.
Patti
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LOL. I didn't even think of that!!Originally Posted by Valerie
My faith doesn’t make me perfect, it makes me forgiven.
fine with me...I'd get off the plane 10 minutes faster.Originally Posted by Valerie
For all the education and practice each of us undergoes, the achievment of mastery is ultimately the outcome of a personal quest for understanding.
just ban babies as carry on items make them fly in the cargo bin with the animals
great idea coming up!
we could put all child molestors, and sex offenders (i.e. rapists, deviants) to work at airports doing strip searches. That way, they'll satisfy their deviant behavior, while earning a respectable wage, and keep them from further harming society. Since we refuse to lock them away forever. it's a win-win. These terrorists aren't going to win afterall.
Exactly. And then you can go and spend the next hour plus getting all the stuff you had to check along with the other 500 people. Fun times.Originally Posted by Ebenezer
As funny as what Patti is saying, that's the way things are heading. Once we start to become paranoid about everything pretty soon nothing will be allowed. And then, as someone else mentioned, what happens to the stuff you check? Who's to say what people won't come up with to remotely activate something in the luggage area? By continually banning things, the terrorists are just going to keep coming up with other ways to circumvent the system.
There's not a stone in my heart I've left unturned
Not a piece of my soul that I ain't searched
The only answer I found for all this hurt
Is there ain't not answer here on earth
And hopefully we will be able to stay one step ahead of them each time. These folks aren't going to just give up. They will keep trying to find ways to kill us. I'd rather we adapt to the threats rather than just throw our hands up in the air and give up because it's an inconvenience.Originally Posted by Valerie
I know with the success in foiling this terror plot, it "seems" we are one step ahead. But the way it came about gave me the distinct impression we are one step behind. The reason is that these people came under surveillance because some neighbor or acquaintance tipped off the police a while ago re: suspicious activity. So by using various means and with cooperation of other governments (including Pakistan) they were able to get a lock on what these people were up to, and move in for arrests right before they did anything.Originally Posted by ArcticWildMan
BUT! Our current annoying system of checks is unlikely to have stopped this plot at all! Getting liquids onto a plane? What system did we have in place to prevent that? None. It seems to not have occurred to us that it's possible to cause an explosion with innocent-looking liquids and gels. (As an aside, I wrote something called "Nobody Move! I'm Armed with a Rectal Thermometer" which made the point that there's mecury in those things, so a terrorist armed with one could secrete it you-know-where).
Can't a liquid or gel be hidden in anything that's solid? Can an X-ray detect gel hidden inside a hollowed out book, hairbrush or anything else?
So we'll have to ban liquids, solids...that just leaves gases. Something just stinks about all of this!
Patti
Val, that is just the point...I felt this same way (too much carry on) BEFORE 9/11...people go to the lengths they do because (business travellers at least) companies now refuse to fly people in the night before, etc...a little inconvience never hurt anybody...Originally Posted by Valerie
it's just the burrito exhaust...Originally Posted by Discotrish
Is it possible to open the emergency door mid-flight? Will extremist Muslims now start seeking this seat? Would you be willing to sit in that row next to an Arabic-looking male with loose shoes?
Patti
Nah. Bill loved sending our military to Haiti, Boasni, Serbia, Iraq (coincidently on the day his trial started!) and other places. He loved to use the military.Originally Posted by imbondz
One could speculate that he might have invaded Iraq too.
Originally Posted by mysticsoto
I am an Arabic-looking male with loose shoes...Originally Posted by Discotrish
and the Reps screamed for 8 years because he was a draft-dodger...but it is alright for their boy...hypocrites.Originally Posted by Dr.Lecter
[sarcasm] George served honorably in the National Guard!!!!!![/sarcasm]Originally Posted by Ebenezer
Isn't funny how people flip-flop on thier feelings depending on who is in the big chair.
All i have to say after wading through the pages of *****ing and moaning is this:
Who the ever told any of you that life is fair?
You have been grossly misinformed.
Life is a *****, then you marry one.
most definately...people are way too soft...it all started with hair care products for men and has been downhill ever since...Originally Posted by shelby
All this griping is a moot point since the end of the world is imminent anyway.
Sheesh....