Posted on 11/22/2010 11:14:45 AM PST by greatdefender
I have placed my vote to remove them! So, far it is almost a deadlock even. Help me to Freep it to "swing" the poll!
No. Domestic airline would establish and maintain their own security system and standards. And economically speaking it would seem in their best interest to do so. Too many people seem to think that the current TSA procedures will make sure you get to grandma’s on Thanksgiving in one piece. The government through TSA is interested in controlling you, not in increasing your safety. Until they address head-on the issue of terrorism in the United States it’s all a waste of time and money. Re flights that originate internationally and are bound for the U.S., I am sure that those countries pay a lot of attention to what the U.S. government says.
The other alternative is to remove both completely, in which case the first incident to occur after that will raise the cry over what could have prevented it.
And then it will get worse.
Soon, you will have to change into other garments, subject yourself to a search of your clothing and fly in jumpsuits.......like prisoners.
Think things through people.
You still don't get it do you? NYC government got you conditioned to rely on government for all answers and personal saftey it looks like. NYC the crime capitol where Government Verbodes gun carring by law abiding people.
What happened on that flight was United States Citizens taking their fate and their own security into their own hands and pputiing it into direct action. That act alone did more to stop such future attempts than any new laws or measures so far. BTW 9/11 was not a new threat by any means. In the mid 1970's a crackpot had a hi-jacked airliner circling Oak Ridge Tennessee threatening to crash it into the nuke weapons plants. From then till 9/11 peoples rights were still perserved.
The reason that people are complaining is not because we are whiners it is because the government is violating our constitutional protections. The supposed increase in security is bogus. As has been said before “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty. “
Why does everyone behave as if terror acts in the U.S. originated on 9/11? The first WTC bombing was in 1993; I remember it well because I was there and working on a very high floor. The terrorists were trying to bring down the towers by toppling one into another. Had they succeeded it would have been bigger than 9/11 because no one would have been able to escape the towers. Did the government stop that plot? No, the bomb did not work properly. Some of my colleagues died 8 years later on 9/11. Now, 17 years after the first WTC bombing, the powers that be have made us no safer and continue to fight the last war. I have no confidence that the charade of current airport procedures will prevent any attack.
So you are willing to give up your fourth amendment rights and let Janet Napolitano or any of her goons grab you or your children’s crotches or any other parts of their bodies they want, and if you resist, you are jailed or fined $11,000?
You, my friend, are a damned idiot.
“They took out two of our biggest buildings in our greatest city with air planes. Now we object to getting patted down when we get on a plane. We really are a bunch of snivelers. If they knock down another building we’ll snivel that the government isn’t doing enough to protect us. Whine, whine,whine.”
Which part of this offends you the most? Were the founding fathers “whiners,” you moron?
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” — Amendment IV, U.S. Constitution
Yes 64%
No 36%
The answers to terrorism is our military responses to offending nations. Not one of the nations where the USS COLE nor the 9/11 attackers originated from have received any military or even foreign policy retributions.
To stop terrorism the government of the United States must issue Letters of Marque and Reprisals against the heads of state which refuse to deal with or condone terrorism. That means covert ops as well as hired guns to hunt them down. It is Constitutional for congress to do so. Gerald R Ford as POTUS went against the Constitution by writing an E.O. prohibiting that very thing as did Jimmy Carter. From that state sponsored terrorism was born.
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