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To: JustAnAmerican
Thanks be to God that this did not happen in the Harbor Tunnel, which seems to be "protected" only by a sign warning that the transit of vehicles carrying flammable material or explosives is "prohibited."

The Maryland State Police, Baltimore City and County PDs, and the Baltimore Harbor Authority should be doing more than posting signs in these perilous times, but I'm not willing to wager that they will until it's too late.

Actually, given the fact that the Islamofascists no doubt already saw the yesterday's conflagration on Baltimore area and national TV, it's already "too late."

Despite the traffic mess that would cause, all trucks of all sizes should be banned from the tunnel forthwith. In addition, smaller vehicles should be "sniffed" by K-9s and chemical sensors -- and not searched, with the Constitution rightfully in mind -- as they pass through toll booths for explosives, flammable materials, and drugs (the tunnel is on the I-95 "drug superhighway," after all.

I live in this metro area and know that there are plenty of other less-dangerous ways to provide access to Baltimore -- and other locales accessible by traffic tunnel (e.g. Boston, NYC) for that matter.

And squeamishness about "ethnic profiling" be damned..... .........

157 posted on 01/14/2004 4:45:08 AM PST by tracer
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To: tracer
"...the Harbor Tunnel"

You mean "the tubes"? I lived in the area for awhile and I always heard the girl on the traffic reports on a local radio station refer to the Harbor Tunnel as "the tubes".

Okay, well, I thought it was cute...

158 posted on 01/14/2004 5:08:05 AM PST by Hatteras
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