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To: Dada Orwell
I think this guy missed the basic point of the manicurist protest. No one has ever been killed because of lax licensing in manicure. Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of lax security at airports.

This guy will be arrested and look like an idiot in the process.
5 posted on 05/22/2005 7:34:41 AM PDT by Moral Hazard (Most people are morally ambiguous, which explains their random dying pattern)
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To: Moral Hazard

"No one has ever been killed because of lax licensing in manicure"

Killed, perhaps No, but I suggest you look at stats that show the number of injuries and infections cause by both licensed and non-licensed manicurists. Do you see any reason to license physicians, nurses or healthcare professionals? Do you see any reason to license drivers?


13 posted on 05/22/2005 7:40:22 AM PDT by politicalwit (USA...A Nation of Selective Law Enforcement.)
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To: Moral Hazard

1000's of people were killed because terrorists crashed airplanes into buildings. For that to happen the attackers needed to get thru' flight school, plan the attacks, get financing for the attacks, get US visas, get past the US border, get past airport security, overpower pilots, etc. These attacks didn't happen just "because of lax security at airports", lax security was one of the elements that allowed them to happen - huge difference.


15 posted on 05/22/2005 7:40:58 AM PDT by Murtyo
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To: Moral Hazard

"Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of lax security at airports.
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Wrong. Terrorists could still do the same thing today. This strip searching of grandma has done NOTHING to prevent another attack.

while you are being fondled by the TSA, there are illegals on the tarmac with no American loyalty servicing your aircraft. Anyone one of those people could aid a terrorist. Besides, a terrorist could go on the plane butt naked and still pull off a 9/11 if that cockpit door can be made to open.


34 posted on 05/22/2005 8:19:47 AM PDT by shellshocked (They're undocumented Border Patrol agents, not vigilantes.)
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To: Moral Hazard
Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of lax security at airports.

I would stress it this way: thousands were killed because we did not comprehend the nature of a suicide mission. Prior to 9/11, if a plane were hijacked, pilots and cabin crew were trained not to resist. The underlying assumption was that the hijacker wanted to live. Better to land the plane safely- no matter where than potentially causing a problem in flight.

9/11 changed that paradigm.

36 posted on 05/22/2005 8:29:27 AM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel
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To: Moral Hazard
Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of lax security at airports.

Thousands were murdered because 1) hundreds of Americans on planes had been indoctrinated to "not fight back" against violence; and 2) gov't policies which encourage unchecked immigration.

It had nothing to do with "lax security". That is a lie propagated by statists who fantasize about turning America into a totalitarian police state.

41 posted on 05/22/2005 8:36:10 AM PDT by Mulder (“The spirit of resistance is so valuable, that I wish it to be always kept alive" Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Moral Hazard
Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of lax security at airports.

Nonsense.

114 posted on 05/22/2005 11:26:24 AM PDT by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: Moral Hazard
Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of lax security at airports.

While you are absolutely right in what you say, it doesn't absolve the lax security on many occasions, at many locations by many agencies and individuals charged with security, before it even got to the airport.

Focusing strictly on the airport boarding procedure is a diversion from more serious security deficiencies.

119 posted on 05/22/2005 12:00:26 PM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: Moral Hazard
"This guy will be arrested and look like an idiot in the process."

I don't think he should be arrested. The TSA folks can keep him off the plane and after it has departed just ignore the guy.

132 posted on 05/22/2005 1:54:21 PM PDT by lstanle
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To: Moral Hazard
Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of lax security at airports.

No, they were not.

Thousands of people were killed on 9/11 because of a self-defense free zone in and around airliners and a "let them hijack" policy dating from the early 1970s.

153 posted on 05/22/2005 4:42:37 PM PDT by B Knotts (Viva il Papa!)
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