***THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD***

[Lucky9teen]

A great alternative to body scanners at airports

The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports.

It's a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with none of the whining about racial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials. Justice would be swift. Case closed!

You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system: "Attention standby passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number ____. Shalom."

Not so funny: we deserve to be called turkeys for accepting this violation of our freedoms. (By the way, Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird. Maybe he could see into the future.)

Not so funny: our government is allowed to do what we would never allow other people to do to our children. If other people did these same things they would be prosecuted






Here's a scenario:

Middle Eastern terrorists hijack a U.S. jetliner bound for Italy. A two-week drama ensues in which the plane's occupants are split into groups and held hostage in secret locations in Lebanon and Syria.

While this drama is unfolding, another group of terrorists detonates a bomb in the luggage hold of a 747 over the North Atlantic, killing more than 300 people.

Not long afterward, terrorists kill 19 people and wound more than a hundred others in coordinated attacks at European airport ticket counters.

A few months later, a U.S. airliner is bombed over Greece, killing four passengers.

Five months after that, another U.S. airliner is stormed by heavily armed terrorists at the airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing at least 20 people and wounding 150 more.

Things are quiet for a while, until two years later when a 747 bound for New York is blown up over Europe killing 270 passengers and crew.

Nine months from then, a French airliner en route to Paris is bombed over Africa, killing 170 people from 17 countries.

That's a pretty macabre fantasy, no? A worst-case war-game scenario for the CIA? A script for the End Times? Except, of course, that everything above actually happened, in a four-year span between 1985 and 1989.

[Lucky9teen]

Security Haiku, Anyone?

Welcome to DC
You need two forms of ID
But not Obama

Someone out of place
Suspicious activity
Certainly not Muslim...

Past experience
Tells us that this government
Cannot be trusted!

The pat down of you
To protect you from danger
Never mind your rights.

Yesterday Food Bill
Today disarm nucular
Welcome Nanny State

Sir, please step inside
I need to check ALL your bags
Even in your pants.

Those damn Progressives
Taking away our freedoms
We need to fight back!

We want to be safe
So our freedoms get reduced
For security

[Pan_Yan]

IBTP!!!

[Lucky9teen]

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[Pan_Yan]

Still IBTP.

[Pan_Yan]

Drat.

[fml]

Top 10 whoo-hoo

[A Cyrenian]

TGIF! Thank You.

[Monkey Face]

IN!!

[Loud Mime]

Good subject and very timely.

[ShadowAce]

Yea! Friday time!!

[a fool in paradise]

Is so silly

[a fool in paradise]

That's a pretty macabre fantasy, no? A worst-case war-game scenario for the CIA? A script for the End Times? Except, of course, that everything above actually happened, in a four-year span between 1985 and 1989.

And yet they tell us that the terrorists are attacking us because of Gitmo.

[Dacula]

I am here

[Pan_Yan]

("Borrowed" from martin_fierro)

[a fool in paradise]

[ErnBatavia]

Top twenty - Happy Friday!

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

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