COMensarations
Friday, December 02, 2005
Homeland Security Relents on Small Screwdrivers
Gee....I feel so much safer, now.
The probability that a Boeing 737 will crash into my house on final approach is greatly reduced by the apparent order on the part of the vaunted Homeland Security department to disregard small metallic items of personal convenience and/or utility, e.g., finger-nail clippers and screw drivers, in their diligent screening of airport commerce. At least according to this report.
I always thought they had never really gone far enough to prevent a bunch of suicidal idiots from commandeering any large aircraft and flying it into some target of import.
Seriously. There are people who can make bombs out of Bisquick. If they can do that, there is little reason to discount the idea that there are people who can do a MacGiver with just about anything to turn it into a lethal weapon. As evidence of this, I offer the fact that the explosive of choice amongst the Islamo-Fascists is TATP; which involves Drano.
Heck, any Ranger can make a lethal garrote out of two good Bic pens and so much dental floss. Lacking sufficient Bics, they would use a bundle of the swizzle sticks that come with a good martini with olives. After enough of those, they wouldn’t care if they lived or died in the assault phase of the operation.
If the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) and Department of Homeland Security were REALLY serious about enforcement of safety, all air passengers would be required to strip, change into utilitarian, disposable coveralls and deposit their thoroughly scanned/searched clothing in provided bags. All of which would be returned to them upon arrival at their final destination.
This will require signfiicant modification of all airports to include changing and shower rooms. But heck...that’s not too important, when you consider the possilbe loss of a joint session of Congress, with the President, Vice President, all the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs in attendance. Neh?
In the meantime, it looks like the lax attitude would provide a good opportunity to our enemies.
On the other hand....
....the distaff reminds me that EACH and everyone of US is responsible for our OWN safety.
It would be better to allow everyone to carry on whatever sort of weapon, less firearms and explosives, they wanted to and run the whole thing as sort of a democracy....
...if some bozo gets up and want to cut the throat of the attractive blonde stew, in order to get the pilots to allow him to fly everyone onboard to their doom, why not everyone who doesn’t agree with this ‘final approach’, get up and ‘get involved’, physically, I mean.
Isn’t that what democracy is all about? Majority rule?
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