Beware the Deadly Crucifix

[JJay]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0803/07concealed.html

 

[jdru25]

Hopefully the TSA and everyone in the industry takes these warnings seriously so another Sept 11 doesn't happen. All we can do is be vigilant and look out for our own arses. Its a shame this is what has happened to commercial aviation.

 

[Typhoon1244]

One of the concealed weapons they showed on the news tonight was a non-metal knife concealed in an ordinary hairbrush. Totally impervious to electronic search. The only way to discover it is by hand.

So what now? All hairbrushes have to be manually inspected?

How about the "cane" that contains a small sword? Is the TSA going to start hassling every octogenarian that comes in?

For the love of Pete, can we please start profiling now???

 

[FalconPilot69]

For the love of Pete, can we please start profiling now???

I agree Typhoon, but the only problem is that we still have the McVeighs out there. Granted, he used a truck bomb, but we still have the same psychotic mentality out there.

 

[WrightAvia]

Why would an ex-military man, who served his country in the gulf, come home and blow up a FEDERAL BUILDING?

AND...how does that relate to AL-QAIDA and the JIHAD and AIRLINERS?

Let me guess...they are going to put Federal GoverNment offices in airliners so that???...(I don't know...work with me here...I'm trying to connect Tim McVeigh with AL-QAIDA and I can't!!).

Not saying Tim McVeigh had a right to kill innocent people in the OKC Federal Building bombing to prove ANY point...but you are mixing apples and oranges here.

 

[Typhoon1244]

...the only problem is that we still have the McVeighs out there.

If we were talking about federal building security, I might agree with you. But we're not. We're talking about commercial aviation, which has been savaged by Middle Eastern males, aged seventeen to thirty, for the last five decades.

Besides, a proper profiling system probably would catch "a McVeigh" before he got on an airliner, anyway.

Did y'all see the headline this week about the profiling the government is going to be doing? They're going to monitor the nations "Frequent Flyer" records to watch for terrorists.

My thoughts...

(1) People in this country are already accutely aware that their civil liberties are not important to our government. Now they're telling our best customers, customers we need very badly, that their travel habits are going to be closely monitored by federal agencies.

(2) Note to Tom Ridge: in general, Muslim terrorists are not "frequent flyers," dumbass!

 

[ammodawg]

Dosn't matter what the GOV says they will do the problem will still be here. Gotta love politics. Each party will thrash the others idea for security. Then they will resort to name calling and accusations. Meanwhile we still have the original problem. I say add a third crewmember in the cockpit and let him handle the 50 cal.

 

[merikeyegro]

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People in this country are already accutely aware that their civil liberties are not important to our government. Now they're telling our best customers, customers we need very badly, that their travel habits are going to be closely monitored by federal agencies.

Ah, hit the nail on the head. Something tells me Mohammed Atta was not a FF on United...

People may be acutely AWARE of the lack of regard for liberties. However, is anyone REALLY going to DO ANYTHING about it? Probably not. There's a big difference between complaints and action. Complaints can easily be ignored. I guarantee if every tree-hugger stopped protesting and actually started letting the air out of logging companies' tires, they'd get the point across. However, it's easy to point and say "see, look what THEY'RE doing!" and then go home to your cheap cable, phone, gas, and low taxes. Until it hits people in the pocketbook, which liberties do not directly, no one will lift a finger. I have written about 15 letters about this subject since 9/11 and actually have my wife on board now. However, one voice does $hit. If you do something about it (refuse to take off your shoes at the security checkpoint -actually worked last weekend, belong to the ACLU, etc.), maybe you'll get somewhere. To talk about it at dinner will do nothing.

9/11 was the beginning of the end of commercial aviation, in my opinion. It was also the beginning of the end of civil rights in this country. No such thing as air tight security, especially at the federal level. Let's get used to it. Someone can build the system, someone can beat it. Period...