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Martin Hotze wrote:
land of the free land of the brave land of the save ridicolous ..... http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/du...n/10539621.htm --- snip --- Posted on Fri, Dec. 31, 2004 Airports to ban cigarette lighters beyond checkpoints BY BRYON OKADA Knight Ridder Newspapers FORT WORTH, Texas - (KRT) - In what could become a major hassle for air travelers who smoke, the Homeland Security Department will ban all cigarette lighters beyond airport checkpoints beginning Feb. 15. The Intelligence Reform Bill that President Bush signed Dec. 17 orders the Transportation Security Administration to review its banned-items list and to prohibit passengers from carrying butane lighters aboard planes. Legislation stipulates that the ban must be in place in 60 days. "We are reviewing the necessary changes that the Transportation Security Administration will need to make based on the new intelligence legislation," TSA spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said. The TSA may also expand the banned-items list to include matches, aviation industry sources have said. No decision has been made, according to one TSA official who spoke on condition of anonymity. But if a ban is enacted, it isn't clear how screeners would detect matches, short of a time-consuming physical search. In 2003, former TSA head James Loy determined that two lighters and four books of matches were "an acceptable level of risk" to balance security and customer service. But over the next year, Loy's decision was criticized as too lax. After all, two U.S. senators argued last year, would-be terrorist Richard Reid was one match strike away from igniting explosives in the heel of his shoe aboard a Paris-to-Miami flight. [...] --- snap --- I believe it is all window dressing. After the Lockerbe explosion, they discovered that it was caused by explosives in a radio. Then they made you turn on your radio, your computer, your cell phone; anything electronic. It did not stop 9-11. Then they discovered that 9-11 happened because of box cutters. So then they took away nail clippers because they had a sharp edge. I do believe that the re-enforced doors and the exlposive detection will stop one kind of terrorist attack, but the terrorists will think of the next flaw in the system and any TSA action today will not prevent the next terrorist attack. The terrorists have all the time in the world and the government is filled with idiots who take away nail clippers. My favorite story is of the DEA agent who had a gun with the appropriate paperwork. The TSA agent allowed him with his gun, but took his nail clippers. |
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This TSA policy of banning 'scary' items that have any
potential at all for use by terrorists is futile and if carried to its extreme, will result in only nude passengers drugged into unconsciousness being permitted airline travel. Where do I go to sign up for a ticket? At last, maybe I'll get to sit next to that cute blonde! You may have missed the 'drugged into unconciousness' part. Oh.....! BOTH of us? |
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