Posted on 06/03/2005 4:33:39 AM PDT by ActionNewsBill
I wouldn't want to show up at box-cutter fight carrying a butter knife.
"Please, someone protect me from a 'terrorist' granny with a butter knife".
When did Americans become such wusses?
Thanks for understand what I was trying to say. We, the people, have the ultimate responsibility for the protection of our lives.
We have delegated some powers to the government, but at all times, our safety is always our own responsibility.
#182 was meant for you Dug.
I find it mildly amusing to be accused of being 'psychotic' and to be "absent common sense" because I realize that an American can be a terrorist, can be an unwitting pawn of a terrorist, or can be forced by threats to cooperate with a terrorist. Oh well, I guess my 'psychotic' nature and lack of 'common sense' is a cross I'll have to bear.
We'll be keeping an eye on you.
"I wouldn't want to show up at box-cutter fight carrying a butter knife."
How about with a 'butter knife' that's over five inches long with a serrated edge? Remember this lady is the one that characterized this as a 'butter knife'. You don't think that facing a criminal action, she might have some reason to understate the facts?
Giggle, I was having the same thought.
But, wasn't the Armed Pilots program pretty much smothered in its cradle by the TSA?
And one with 37 hostages, too!
I've responded numerous times to the mistatement of facts about this 'butter knife' that was, according to the article, over five inches in lenght with a serrated edge. Hardly, your typical 'butter knife'.
I've also responded numerous times to the well-known terrorist tactic of using unsuspecting or otherwise compliant persons to ferry their weapons onto aircraft. Some don't seem to realize that not all terrorists are middle eastern muslim males.
I didn't realize they have stopped looking for bombs.
Kindly provide a citation and proof, please.
I am sure you can't. It is just you exaggerating things again due to your experiencces that are not like the vast majority of law-abiding American citizens.
Paranoia. Paranoid delusions. Inability to distinguish non-threatening situations from threatening. Nutso.
Interesting!
Do you have personal knowledge of terrorists who have recently used American citizens to ferry weapons onto US aircraft in the last three years?
If so, Freepers would love to hear the details...
A whole 5 inches? That sounds like a standard size for a butter knife.
And the serrated edge has got to be really dangerous...you can't even cut a steak with one of those.
Where did he say because she is lefty she doesn't have rights?
He is pointing out her agenda because it raises doubt as to the CREDIBILITY of her report since she may be making it up to get people angry and raise support for her cause.
Could you point us to one such instance?
We've reached that weird point in our devolution as a society where we think it is better to be destroyed than to sacrifice our cherished, happy fictions.
Our family's butter knives have serrated edges, too. The serrations are small though and yet could still be classified as a "knife of over five inches long with a serrated edge."
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Imagine if the world's most notorious fugitive, Osama bin Laden, attempted to board an airliner in the United States. Suppose he were clean-shaven, sporting short hair, wearing a pinstriped business suit and looked like so many other travelers that no suspicions were raised. How far might he get?
If he used aliases such as names of family members, he would be nabbed instantly and whisked away for questioning. That's because many of his relatives are on the FBI's secret "no-fly list," according to intelligence sources.
But suppose he boldly decided to use his own name. Would he be cleared to fly? Insight recently learned that scenario was tested at a U.S. airport in the South during January. The result was troubling: America's most-wanted fugitive is cleared to fly.
According to airline-security documents obtained by this magazine, the name Osama bin Laden was punched into the computer by an airline official and, remarkably, that name was cleared at the security checkpoint all passengers must pass through before being issued a boarding pass.
The realization that Osama bin Laden made the cut sent shivers down the spines of airline-security officials who discovered the system gap.
"When the most-wanted man in modern history is not included on the list of possible terrorists there are some serious deficiencies in the system which need to be addressed," says an airport-security official familiar with the test.
In fact, Insight has learned from law-enforcement sources that at least two other names of known terrorists cleared security checkpoints when officials punched them into the computer.
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