It is time to abolish the TSA and send all of the screeners back to their earlier jobs of cleaning out the fryolators and bathrooms at fast-food joints. You might wonder why, in the name of your Deity of Choice, would the idiot TSA screeners go through a passenger's checkbook. It's not like they're going to find evidence of dues payments to the Friends of Osama bin Ladin.
But they did indeed rifle through a woman's checkbook.
I don't see how we would be worse off if we just did away with the TSA and told people "y'all bring a gun with you, hear".
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Something is strange with either your blog settings or blogger/blogspot: My most recent blog post asserts that you cited it in seven blog posts when you didn't:
http://defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com/2010/08/us-air-power-in-perspective.html
(scroll down to bottom)
Did you recently change your settings?
Sven, I haven't changed a thing in months, other than to maintain the blogrolls.
Blogspot does some weird stuff from time to time.
Those assholes get away with stuff that even a crooked cop would be hesitant to pull. I have yet to see any reason to justify their existence.
Ah yes, as my friend Dirty Dan (who grew up in Cuba in the bad old days) was fond of saying about it: "An armed society is a polite society."
-Doug in Oakland
Bob, it's all about security theater. All this nonsense makes people "feel safer", even though it doesn't make them actually safer. And the politicians put up with it because it's cheaper than *real* safety, which would be armed air marshalls on all flights, yet meets constituents' demands that the politicians "do something". So just consider it the art of practical politics (as described by H.L. Mencken) in action. Siiiiigh!
- Badtux the Cynical Penguin
It's only been a tactic to inspire more fear from the first.
The hitmen hit us hard at the 9/11 carnival event and not a single one was from Afghanistan or Pakistan (and many of whom are still alive! See:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/
WRHARTICLES/hijackers.html?q=hijackers.html).
In September 2002, [FBI Director Robert Mueller] told CNN twice that there is "no legal proof to prove the identities of the suicidal hijackers."
So, one fact is apparent. If those who hijacked the 9/11 airplanes were using stolen identities, then we don't know who they were or who they worked for. We can't. It's impossible.
A Saudi embassy official said it was difficult to know for certain whether the hijackers used bogus names. "You cannot throw a stone in Saudi Arabia without hitting an Al Ghamdi," he said, referring to the alleged last name of three of the hijackers. [Chicago Tribune]
Now, people who are intending to commit suicide normally don't worry about whether anyone knows their real name, and it is here that some other odd aspects of this case take on a new meaning.
We are told that the group that planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks were highly trained (possibly by the CIA) experts, with knowledge of how to steal identities and forge fake IDs, yet at the same time we are being told that these men were incapable of correctly filling in US visa applications.
We are also being told that they spent the night before the attack getting drunk in bars, making noise, screaming insults at the "infidels", and doing everything they could to attract attention to themselves. They used the credit cards issued in their stolen names, allowed their driver's licenses with the stolen names to be photocopied, and used public library computers to send emails back and forth using their stolen names signed to unencrypted messages about their plans to steal aircraft and crash them into buildings, then decorated their apartments with absurdly obvious props such as a crop dusting manual to the point where the whole affair reads like a low budget "B" detective movie from the 1930s.
In short, these men did everything they could to make sure everyone knew who they were, or more to the point, who they were pretending to be.
Because the IDs used by the hijackers were phony, we cannot know who they really were or who they really worked for. But what is apparent is that those who planned the hijackings and the 9/11 attacks went out of their way to leave plenty of clues pointing to citizens of middle eastern Arab nations.
Many of the investigators believe that some of the initial clues that were uncovered about the terrorists' identities and preparations, such as flight manuals, were meant to be found. A former high-level intelligence official told me, "Whatever trail was left was left deliberately-for the F.B.I. to chase." [The New Yorker]
We don't know who planned 9/11 attacks. But we do know who they wanted us to think they were.
We do know who they intended America to blame for the attacks.
FBI Says Barbara Olsen Did Not Call Ted Olsen - The Mother of All Lies About 9/11.
And Al-Qaeda, of course, signified originally The Base of Saudi insiders put together by the CIA under one of the Bin Ladin construction boys to get rid of the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Carry on with your exposes; the exposes of 9/11 are all over the internets now.
And I'm hardly a fifth column.
S
Aren't these the same jerks at PHL that forced a kid to remove his leg braces and then would not allow his parents to assist him through the scanner ???
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