Posted on 09/16/2001 1:14:30 PM PDT by jern
My sister is worried now that these murderers might try to release toxins in the Capitol, and was astounded that tourists are still being allowed in the building! So we're all keeping Brian in our prayers, as well as all who live and work in our nation's capitol.
So our great airport security is somehow not catching the old "vest bombs" .... amazing.
Having just flown back from Minneapolis on Friday, after being delayed two extra days and having to reroute, I am very disappointed in the "spotty" airport security that is being rolled out.
In Seattle, you can't even get a plastic butter knife at the airport, in LA you can't come near the airport to pickup or drop off passengers. But in Minneapolis? After being scanned three times, twice via walkthrough and the third with a wand, I got through and went to the restaurant for a three hour wait for my flight. I was given a steak menu. I asked the waiter if I get a steak knife with the steak? He said certainly. And then he laughed knowing how absurd that was based on what we are going through and said "Yeah, one day they took all our knives away and the next they gave them back after running them through the x-ray." Like that makes the steak knifes safer or something.
Then, before getting on the plane, I went to the rest room and for the first time in any airport I see a plastic bio-waste disposable container stuck on the wall full of used hypodermic needles from Insulin users I assume. Now, if I was a terrorist, it sure would be an easy backup weapon to claim that this hypo containes AIDS tainted blood or something.
I just don't feel that the airports or the FAA has a clue on how to make us safer ... they seem to be doing everything to slow the airports down but seem to be missing a lot of "thought processes" of what they should be doing.
So our great airport security is somehow not catching the old "vest bombs" .... amazing.
Having just flown back from Minneapolis on Friday, after being delayed two extra days and having to reroute, I am very disappointed in the "spotty" airport security that is being rolled out.
In Seattle, you can't even get a plastic butter knife at the airport, in LA you can't come near the airport to pickup or drop off passengers. But in Minneapolis? After being scanned three times, twice via walkthrough and the third with a wand, I got through and went to the restaurant for a three hour wait for my flight. I was given a steak menu. I asked the waiter if I get a steak knife with the steak? He said certainly. And then he laughed knowing how absurd that was based on what we are going through and said "Yeah, one day they took all our knives away and the next they gave them back after running them through the x-ray." Like that makes the steak knifes safer or something.
Then, before getting on the plane, I went to the rest room and for the first time in any airport I see a plastic bio-waste disposable container stuck on the wall full of used hypodermic needles from Insulin users I assume. Now, if I was a terrorist, it sure would be an easy backup weapon to claim that this hypo containes AIDS tainted blood or something.
I just don't feel that the airports or the FAA has a clue on how to make us safer ... they seem to be doing everything to slow the airports down but seem to be missing a lot of "thought processes" of what they should be doing.
I burst out in sobs when I read this line. American men are so great, so strong, even after decades of being slammed by feminazis. God bless our brave, heroic men!
Does anyone know what happened at OEB? I heard reports that there was black smoke coming out of it around 10:00am that morning. I've talked to two people who said they saw this on TV. Have heard nothing since the 11th.
This is the key and crucial point and moment in this report...after learning that they in all likelyhood would die, and that many others would die as well...without hesitation, calmly, and with certain death before them they acted...the paradigm had shifted, they were able to think out of the box...now most of America will think this way...and this, like Imperial Japan, was Bin Laddens fatal mistake.
It is safe to assume that all 4 planes contained individuals cut of the same cloth...that had they known...wouldnt have hesitated to attempt to regain control of the airfcraft, in an effort at the very least to save innocents on the ground, if not themselves...I have no doubt
"At my signal, unleash hell." - Maximus in the movie Gladiator
And this reminds us that there are no ordinary people. Each one was extraordinary long before they ever boarded that plane - we just never got to know them until they showed us just how far from ordinary they were.
That's something I'm reflecting on, anyway.
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