Governor asks National Guard to assist in airport security

AP via wrgb (CBS Albany) ^

[leakinInTheBlueSea]

Governor asks National Guard to assist in airport security

(Boston - AP) - For the first time since the September eleventh terror attacks, a spokesman for Governor Romney says the governor plans to activate the Massachusetts National Guard to assist with security at Logan Airport.

The governor met this morning with public safety and transportation officials to get a status report and consider any additional response to the thwarted terror threat in Britain.

Like other major US airports, Logan is being impacted by heightened security measures in the wake of the terror plot.

Several flights were canceled to and from Boston and most flights experienced some delays while airport security enforced stiffer regulations.

The US government banned all liquids and gels from flights, including toothpaste, makeup, suntan lotion. Baby formula and medicines were exempted.

Helen Gault of Bedford arrived at Logan early this morning for a trip to London with her husband and two teen-age children, only to find out their flight had been canceled. Gault says they'll try to get tickets for a flight tomorrow.

[trisham]

He's on the air right now.

[2banana]

Because a terrorist mechanical infantry platoon might attack an airport?

[dljordan]

"Because a terrorist mechanical infantry platoon might attack an airport?"

It's more "Security Theater".

[af_vet_rr]

Because a terrorist mechanical infantry platoon might attack an airport?

I'm a horrible person - for a second, I imagined that Romney might be doing this to try and give a little boost to those he supports in November, kind of an attention-getting "HEY, I'M LOOKING OUT FOR THE CITIZENS OF MASSACHUSETTS, AND YOU CAN EXPECT THAT ANYBODY I SUPPORT WILL DO THE SAME".

I'm so horrible though, politicians would never use tactics like this in an election year, especially when they had high-profile projects that had problems earlier in the year *cough* Big Dig *cough* where such a tactic might knock something like that off the front pages, even if just for a little while.

[Thunderchief F-105]

......agreed.....!!! it's all for show; nothing more, and
nothing less....! how stupid do these politicians/crooks (sorry; I repeat myself there...), think we are....!!?

".....about as useful as a damned ejection seat
in a helicopter.........!"