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BeaForoni was claimed to have wrote: On Jan 11, 11:37*pm, (Dennis P. Harris) wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:05:00 -0600 in rec.travel.air, (Geoff *Miller) wrote: Back atcha: How many commercial aircraft in the security- rife industrialized West have been hijacked by terrorists since these procedures were implemented? Faulty logic. *The bogus procedures have NOTHING to do with REAL security. *They are just window dressing, and ineptly conducted. The 9/11 hijackers used box cutters to gain control of the airplanes. Very few box cutters have made it through the TSA checkpoints. Maybe not box cutters specifically, but I work with several other remote employees, several times a year we get together at HQ, we've traveled in total with more knives then were used in the hijacking simply due to the fact that each of us have forgotten to pull small knives out of our laptop toolkits, and once you fly two or three times with an item without getting noticed, it just isn't worth the hassle even if you remember. Lotion though, that they are good at. The one thing that could have prevented the tragedy of 9/11 was locking fortified doors to the cockpit. Have they done that yet? Of course not, it's all about theatre. |
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"DaveM" wrote in message news On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:38:55 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote: If Americans even a few decades ago were the cowards that they are today, they'd all be speaking German now. I doubt it. Every older generation thinks poorly of the younger. I've seen similar comments made just before the first world war on the British youth of that time. DaveM Doesn't mean that the observation is any less true. |
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"DevilsPGD" wrote in message ... In message BeaForoni was claimed to have wrote: On Jan 11, 11:37 pm, (Dennis P. Harris) wrote: On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:05:00 -0600 in rec.travel.air, (Geoff Miller) wrote: Back atcha: How many commercial aircraft in the security- rife industrialized West have been hijacked by terrorists since these procedures were implemented? Faulty logic. The bogus procedures have NOTHING to do with REAL security. They are just window dressing, and ineptly conducted. The 9/11 hijackers used box cutters to gain control of the airplanes. Very few box cutters have made it through the TSA checkpoints. Maybe not box cutters specifically, but I work with several other remote employees, several times a year we get together at HQ, we've traveled in total with more knives then were used in the hijacking simply due to the fact that each of us have forgotten to pull small knives out of our laptop toolkits, and once you fly two or three times with an item without getting noticed, it just isn't worth the hassle even if you remember. Lotion though, that they are good at. The one thing that could have prevented the tragedy of 9/11 was locking fortified doors to the cockpit. Have they done that yet? Of course not, it's all about theatre. Betcha assholes who make that kind of a comment vote DEMONrat/LIEbrawl. You are obviously supporting terrorism. |
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:52:03 GMT, "Sharx35" wrote:
"DaveM" wrote in message news On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:38:55 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote: If Americans even a few decades ago were the cowards that they are today, they'd all be speaking German now. I doubt it. Every older generation thinks poorly of the younger. I've seen similar comments made just before the first world war on the British youth of that time. Doesn't mean that the observation is any less true. Sure. A stopped clock is right twice a day. DaveM |
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