Posted on 12/26/2009 11:55:38 AM PST by American Dream 246
“Nope, European Union is part of Islam now.”
Right. My bad, I didn’t get the pecking order right!
When I flew on a regular basis, I , along with a 6’4” Swede, was always pulled out for extra screening. The guy from Pakistan (a Christian who fled decades ago) was only searched every other time.
I asked the guys why, and they always said that it was less trouble to search two German looking guys as opposed to the Pakistani. Less legal issues.
A "troll" is someone who "trolls"...a fishing term. That is, someone who posts, waving bait or lure before your eyes, hoping for you to bite. If you truly believe someone is trolling, what does it say about you if you bite?
And the "winky smiley" indicates humor or that something is not meant to be taken seriously (or can be flirtatious...sorry to disappoint, but that was not the connotation I intended). As the link says, more of a "don't hit me for what i just said" smiley.
Cheers! :-)
bombs built right and detonated aren’t going to be detered by an alarm...pulllleeezeeee
“...if you are young, not well dressed, obviously african/muslim, you can board any plane in the workd without a passport...”
And an elderly, well-dressed caucasion American can’t get off a cruise ship in Los Angeles without a passport any more. Go figure.
I’m amazed there’s no link found yet to that Airtran flight yet a few weeks ago from Atlanta to Houston. That was weird too.
The second guy couldve been Pakistani/Bangaladeshi, which would slot into this whole story.
Maybe the “wait”...the time delay was because he was too drugged to act until he was closer to landing.
No, I'm sure that Daisie E. King looked like a young Muslim male.
</sarc>
I mean, check out her son, who put the bomb in her luggage (have to click the link, since it's a Corbis image).
You attend the same engineering school? ;-)
Seesh.
Next we'll find out he doesn't have a birth certificate either.
Whoa.... I bet Al Q did not want to WASTE the passport!! They would use it if they HAD to on this human bomb, but if they could spare it and use it for the NEXT guy...
BE SCARED.
I doubt the father warned the embassy. Probably disinformation.
yep...newby...only been involved w/ the web for 15 or so years.
of course you’re right...the only definition of a troll is associated with fishing...never with someone who lives and makes his living from under a bridge, deviously.
what does it say if i bite? that when you purposefly make satements that people read/react to them...even with your cutsey emoticons.
yep...the “it was a joke” argument is very useful to the PC crowd...it won’t surprise me to see the latest crotch-bomber claim it was just a joke ;)
Then they attempt to find accomplices of the terror suspect(s) and thus everyone undergoes interviews and/or interrogations.
I am quite surprised that you are surprised about this SOP.
I can't recall all the specifics or the exact terms, but precisely where he had a ticket to sit is a super dangerous place to have a bomb go off, MUCH more dangerous than the airplane bathroom.
I’m sure he got on board with a passport. I just think that his handler there would have liked to KEEP the passport if possible. After all, they are expensive and this one was going to become confetti over Michigan. His ploy didn’t work and the guy got on the plane.
However, this was a RED FLAG, Dutch airport security! When they tell you he’s a Somali refugee and then his passport says he’s Nigerian, that should alert you.
my point about the bathroom that has gotten lost in the discussion is that the NEW requirement to have your ass in your seat now for 1 hour PRIOR to landing is STUPID!
We are to say that a terrorist isn’t willing to travel with a pound of explosives up his ass...couldn’t go into the bathroom at 1 hour and 5 minutes before landing to assemble the bomb, strap it on his person and go back to his “wing seat”.
NOW everyone is being held to the same “keep your ass in your seat for the next 60 minutes”...that means the HEROS who may lunge at a terroist who now pulls out a syrine and tries to secretly detonate the bomb.
MY point is that we are treating ALL passengers as terrorist with the 60 minutes in your seat requirement which will HINDER heros from head locks, wretling, punches etc.
I can’t believe we haven’t heard more people state that the 60 minute keep your ass in your seat RULE is actually “helping” the terrorist to work unhindered!
HMMM terrorist buys 3 tickets gets 3 seats together and or course the other 2 seats won’t be occupied...so he has space and cover to do his dirty deeds and any person who might get a glimpse will have to yell...ITS A BOMB instead of tacking the creep.
shaking head that no one is seeing the bigger picture...we are handing the terrorist yet another win.
“all passengers will be treated like terrorists”
If I ever HAD to fly, I'd sure hope that I could take El Al.
What is... even worse to me... that all the crazy horrid screening procedures is (what appears to me to be) the fact that PASSENGERS are considered to be expedible.
I mean... who would want to use an industry where the Congress HAD to pass legislation that it's against the law to leave passengers trapped in planes on runways overnight without food & water or bathrooms.
I mean... this is INSANE, and I don't understand why anyone trusts ANY airline, with of course the possible exception of El Al.
For instance, in the matter discussed by Candor7 above, the FACT is that the airlines want to RETRIEVE EVIDENCE - evidence is important; if the passengers are on a plane rigged with bombs, well geeeez, what will happen to the evidence?
They DON'T care about the people on the plane, and this is SOP; the humans are dispensible disposable useless eaters; but the evidence to convict an islamist muslim terrorist is crucial.
I won't discuss what I think of the airline industry with friends of mine who fly all the time, because they consider me silly & naive, but I don't see how any sane individual would trust any of our airlines.
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