Indeed so, going through an airport yesterday the TSA screener caught the 1 oz tube of toothpaste I forgot to put in my one quart plastic bag. The screener handed the toothpaste to me to put in my handy bag once I was beyond the fence so to speak. What more could you ask? Hey, I have to give him credit for finding the suspicious article, three other airports missed it and who knows, I could have brushed my teeth right there in row 23D.
An elderly lady was also spotted with a small bottle of liquid, but she wasn't so lucky, she didn’t have a plastic bag (imagine a senior citizen without a plastic bag in her pocketbook). The screener after perusing her belongings, suggested that she would have to either forfeit the bottle or place it in her luggage to be loaded on the plane (which of course was in some other far location at the airport).
Think about it. Already through the screening, the liquid was inspected, the lady would have had access to the all contents of the plastic bag in her carry on, but she couldn't keep it because she didn't have a plastic bag.
And you have to ask if we are making progress?
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Are we making progress in the fight against terrorism?
QUINNSCOMMENTARY;866558 wrote: Indeed so, going through an airport yesterday the TSA screener caught the 1 oz tube of toothpaste I forgot to put in my one quart plastic bag. The screener handed the toothpaste to me to put in my handy bag once I was beyond the fence so to speak. What more could you ask? Hey, I have to give him credit for finding the suspicious article, three other airports missed it and who knows, I could have brushed my teeth right there in row 23D.
An elderly lady was also spotted with a small bottle of liquid, but she wasn't so lucky, she didn’t have a plastic bag (imagine a senior citizen without a plastic bag in her pocketbook). The screener after perusing her belongings, suggested that she would have to either forfeit the bottle or place it in her luggage to be loaded on the plane (which of course was in some other far location at the airport).
Think about it. Already through the screening, the liquid was inspected, the lady would have had access to the all contents of the plastic bag in her carry on, but she couldn't keep it because she didn't have a plastic bag.
And you have to ask if we are making progress?
:p
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We were just discussing this in another thread. I told my daughter to wear flip flops to the airport instead of sneakers. They will pull you aside and make you take them off, etc.
An elderly lady was also spotted with a small bottle of liquid, but she wasn't so lucky, she didn’t have a plastic bag (imagine a senior citizen without a plastic bag in her pocketbook). The screener after perusing her belongings, suggested that she would have to either forfeit the bottle or place it in her luggage to be loaded on the plane (which of course was in some other far location at the airport).
Think about it. Already through the screening, the liquid was inspected, the lady would have had access to the all contents of the plastic bag in her carry on, but she couldn't keep it because she didn't have a plastic bag.
And you have to ask if we are making progress?
:p
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We were just discussing this in another thread. I told my daughter to wear flip flops to the airport instead of sneakers. They will pull you aside and make you take them off, etc.
Are we making progress in the fight against terrorism?
Terrorism is an idea, based on an ideology not an act. In terms of combating the ideology of the current crop of Islamic terrorism we (the West) are failing dismally, as a suitably belligerent but strategically idiotic policy by the USA is wearing down its own military and bankrupting the economy, while at the same time giving sucour to the arguments of world-view of the extremists in their own lands by demonstrating that the US is indeed acting just like the all-encompassing, violent, big bad, Israel-loving superpower as its cretinously portrayed in Arab circles.
Meanwhile the Europeans doze away complacently, too timid and mean-spirited to prevent the spread of Islamic terror networks in their own countries or to reinforce the desperate fighting in Afganistan, which is where the only winnable battle is going on at present (Iraq was a lost cause from day one, this is only more obvious now). The British Army has been humiliated in Basra and will soon sound an ignominious retreat, the US army is essentially pinned down in the Sunni Triangle and will be there until some political pygmy in Washington decides to pull the plug on the ruinously expensive cost of maintaining this stalemate.
The Taliban are resurgent in Afganistan, and unless NATO reassess its strategy there, it will be beaten for the first time in its history as a military alliance, (the consequences are of course disasterous for the West and will simply embolden the Islamic extremists to go to the next step and take their war of civilization into places like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, and Egypt, and eventually onto the streets of European cities). Pakistan continues to destabilize and radicalize (a bomb went off in India last week, Pakistani Islamic radicals once again). In africa and SE Asia as well, violence, fear and terror are being used by assorted Islamicist groups against their ethnic and religious enemies, while the the West watches and slumbers, oblivious to everything except bank interest rates, and the value of their rapidly decreasing property assets. :-5
Meanwhile the Europeans doze away complacently, too timid and mean-spirited to prevent the spread of Islamic terror networks in their own countries or to reinforce the desperate fighting in Afganistan, which is where the only winnable battle is going on at present (Iraq was a lost cause from day one, this is only more obvious now). The British Army has been humiliated in Basra and will soon sound an ignominious retreat, the US army is essentially pinned down in the Sunni Triangle and will be there until some political pygmy in Washington decides to pull the plug on the ruinously expensive cost of maintaining this stalemate.
The Taliban are resurgent in Afganistan, and unless NATO reassess its strategy there, it will be beaten for the first time in its history as a military alliance, (the consequences are of course disasterous for the West and will simply embolden the Islamic extremists to go to the next step and take their war of civilization into places like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, and Egypt, and eventually onto the streets of European cities). Pakistan continues to destabilize and radicalize (a bomb went off in India last week, Pakistani Islamic radicals once again). In africa and SE Asia as well, violence, fear and terror are being used by assorted Islamicist groups against their ethnic and religious enemies, while the the West watches and slumbers, oblivious to everything except bank interest rates, and the value of their rapidly decreasing property assets. :-5
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Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Are we making progress in the fight against terrorism?
Airport security is a joke. Not the reason but the way it is carried out. Last time we traveled international we had five carry on bags going through security but it seems were only allowed four. Repacked them into four bags, cleared security and then repacked back as five again with not a word said. A pointless exercise. Rather than treating everyone as a terrorist they should be targeting their efforts not spreading them out.
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When I was leaving Spain last week, we had to queue at passport control. When the couple in front of us got to the front, the Officer in the control booth turned to say something to a colleague and as he did so, just waved the couple through without even looking at them or their passports. He did check ours though when his attention returned. I know our holiday-makers flight was fairly "safe", but this seemed a bit odd to me.
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