[4Freedom]

"PPS: All handbags are X-rayed prior to passengers boarding the plane. Now kindly explain how a terrorist is going to "easily" slip bomb components into Aunt Ida's purse?"

Erik has a point. IEDs can be made out of a lot of everyday-looking, common, ordinary stuff that would be hard to detect, if the different components were divided up into different bags and then assembled later on the plane.

TSA does have a hard job.

Somebody slick puts a 9 volt battery in this bag, some wire in that one, a watch or some other timer in another and the explosive disguised as a tube of toothpaste in yet another and then puts it all together after the plane has left the ground and we have another disaster.

The problem is modern IEDs don't look like the devices Wile E. Coyote tried to use on the Roadrunner. ;^)

[Erik Latranyi]

IEDs can be made out of a lot of everyday-looking, common, ordinary stuff that would be hard to detect, if the different components were divided up into different bags and then assembled later on the plane.

Thank you for "getting it".

The wacky liberals do not believe the threat is real and that this was made up to overshadow Lamont's win.

The wacky conservatives think we should just intern every Muslim and do nothing else.

Both groups should not be ignored.