Posted on 06/03/2005 4:33:39 AM PDT by ActionNewsBill
RIGHT ON!!!!
What causes any of us to believe terrorists responsible for the next great crime will fit any known profile?
That's the problem, isn't it? We don't know with certainty who we are looking for. And, certainty, or extravagantly good luck, is what is required.
"The blame for this idiocy lies squarely with the Bush administration."
That's absolute malarky. There have been instances of terrorists using unsuspecting passengers to smuggle items onto an aircraft. In addition, you seem to forget that there are American Muslims too. Just because some one doesn't look like a terrorist is no assurance that they are not.
You're jumping to conclusions here. In most states, teachers are forced to be members of the union although many despise it. In this case, the 'teacher' is a principal - generally seen by the union as part of the opposition administration.
My wife is a teacher and forced member of the union, but she often rallies her fellow teachers to fight the union and many do.
Having Admiral Loy as head of TSA was one of the biggests mistakes this administration has made. The tone he set with TSA and the Air Marshalls allowed his arrogance to seep to the lowest levels.
What rights were taken away?!
...and also how anyone can be considered a terrorist by an inept beauracracy.
How is she being treated like a terrorist?
She claims the TSA said those things, however, she is not arrested, has free access to the media and is card carrying NEA member. Sounds like lots of hype to me.
If this is how we treat terrorists, all is lost.
If this is how we treat citizens, all is lost.
Are you attempting to justify this insanity?
Agree. She reminds me of my 4th grade teacher, Sister Mary Redempta.
Makes my blood run cold. ;^)
The idiots on FR that want grandma left alone and only Muslims screened are as dangerous to our security as the ACLU.
You hit it right on the head that the terrorists will indoctrinate or use unsuspecting dolts for their purposes. Currently, in Iraq, they are paying men to drive cars from one location to another. The driver does not know the car is packed with explosives and is detonated remotely.
Fortunately, there is a little matter of a prosecutor, judge and a jury between these TSA punks and a felony conviction.
That's not a knife, mate.
Now this is a knife....
Or did she 'take' them with her....?
The whole thing seems asinine to me...
..I don't care if it was 37 kids.....buy a box of plastic knives for crying out loud!!.
I am not sympathetic to her.
Much ado about nothing.
She's a crabby old biddy whose job it is to make kid's (and their parent's) lives a living hell and now that she's in a bind she wants to wrap herself with those same children for protection. Afterall, it's fo' the chil'run
You think that this 57 YO grandma is being used by the terrorists for nefarious purposes?
Unbelievable.
Thank you, I now feel so much safer that people are now being arrested for having BIC cigarette lighters or table knifes.
Without outstanding citizens such as you, we could all be murdered by little old ladies with their dangerous wheel chairs.
Tonight, my wife and I can sleep soundly, since we are all safe and secure once again.
"You hit it right on the head that the terrorists will indoctrinate or use unsuspecting dolts for their purposes."
They can also use threats against family members as well. But if you're just looking for an excuse to bash the Bush administration, this will work as well as any.
bttt
This assumes that it's the beauracracy that is at fault. While I'm certainly no fan of beauracracies-- they are cumbersome, don't deal well with change, and protect the inept-- they are not what is truly at fault here.
What's at fault is a Liberal mindset: Political Correctness -- the antithesis of common sense.
Even if each airport contracted with separate security agencies, you'd still have the same problem: the security companies would still follow the same idiotic policies because not to would invite lawsuits by the ACLU.
A butter knife? Man get f'n real.
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