Airport Deems War Hero Security Risk

The Denver Channel ^ | Posted: 11:33 a.m. EDT May 31, 2002

[Kaslin]

Obviously you do not know what common sense is

[ArrogantBustard]

tick, tick, tick...

I've more than once had to restrain myself from employing stooge-fu upon some blinking idiot bureaucrat. (Must... not... poke... &#@$ing... idiot... in... eyes)

[ArrogantBustard]

If you think that treating intelligent adults like mentally unstable retarded children has anything to do with common sense, I can only say that I think you have a very strange notion of common sense.

[T. P. Pole]

So far only one or two airports have actual Government employees working as screeners. The rest are still the idiots who were there before.

Umm, aren't they just taking the "idiots who were there before," making them attend a four hour class, giving them a pay raise, and making them federal employees?

[tbird-james]

airport supervisor is just as whacky and supports this whacky behaviour by saying that he could have checked it with a cabin attendant.
Problem starts at the top.
Replace him for such thinking that there was a problem here to begin with. Get a new supervisor with reality in hand and watch how quick those at the gates get the message. People are changed for idiocy.

Sincere apologies to the all our servicement that get such treatment and many thanks for being on the firing line for us.

[Kaslin]

Are you trying to convince me that those morons that conviscated the wire cutter from Lt.Greg Miller were using common sense? Sorry but you fail. I am sure he told them why he had them and probably even had it in writing to prove it. It has nothing to do with being intelligent, you can be a college graduated idiot. To have common sense you don't need a diploma

[Kaslin]

The person that insisted that the wire cutters be taken from LT Greg Miller obviously didn't use common sence, hence he/she is a moron

[ArrogantBustard]

What the Fu#$????? Is English your native language? Please read my posts again. Since it has clearly eluded you, although I put it very plainly:

I strongly oppose disarming airline passengers. The current so-called security measures are predicated on the idiotic and false notion that everyone is a potential terrorist and must be disarmed. I don't give a rat's behind why Lt. Miller had the pliers, or even that he's in the Army. It's all irrelevant. The complete morons at the FAA shouldn't be trying to take away people's pliers etc. in the first place.
GET IT???

AB

[ArrogantBustard]

The person that insisted that the wire cutters be taken from LT Miller wasn't the complete and utter moron at the gate, it was his boss (several times removed), who is also a complete and utter moron. The stupidity goes all the way to the top. The gate-moron didn't invent the idea of disarming everybody. He just agreed with it, and carried it out.

AB

[Kaslin]

No English is not my native language, and I am proud that I speak it better then some Americans that were born here

[Kaslin]

I strongly oppose disarming airline passengers.

No wonder the hijackers got on the planes. Now if you mean that you oppose that the pilots could not carry guns with them I agree with you

[ArrogantBustard]

I mean the passengers, a category from which I have removed myself since 09/11/2001. The morons at the TSA, and their equally decerebrate compatriots at the FAA, FBI, and INS have some sort of morbid fixation on disarming everyone, instead of identifying and eliminating actual terrorists. I suppose the lazy, small minded little creeps find hassling honest people easier than doing real police work.

AB

[Marine Inspector]

Close. The idiots have to speak English, be a citizens and stay wake during the 4 hour class.

That should eliminate 75% of the current idiots, and make room for the smarter idiots.

[Kaslin]

You might be interested in this.

thread

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/692692/posts

Miller, who lives in College Station, Texas, had flown to the Bay Area to visit his mother. He said he was told at his local airport that the clippers weren't prohibited on the plane. Security personnel there even gave him a sticker saying they were allowed.

But when Miller wanted to fly back home, he said the sticker didn't convince security screeners. He said San Francisco airport security personnel told him the tool, with a rounded blade less than one-inch long, was dangerous and confiscated it.

Once aboard, Miller said flight attendants told him there was nothing on board to open his jaw if he became sick.

"What I think it is, is a lack of common sense," he said.

[Ajnin]

Yes they did state they were armed.

[Swordmaker]

I wonder how long it will be before some outraged traveler clearly demonstrates the folly and futility of disarming passengers down to the level of tweezers -- by smacking and seriously injuring a bullying Fed-fool with an open-handed or elbow blow to a vital spot (e.g. Adam's apple, bridge of nose, cervical spine, kneecap) -- or perhaps even a Three Stooges-style two-fingered eye gouge.

They will just prohibit carrying of anyone's Black Belt...