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Judah writes:
What I'd like to know is what happens to the people who get the armed escorts out of the security line! http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/monahan1.html I love the one about the cell phones. A cell phone in your luggage is less likely to trigger a bomb than a cell phone in your carry-on? Doh! You missed the funny part. They're banning mobile phones because they could be used to trigger explosives. Uh...aren't *explosives* banned?! I hope to go at least another decade before subjecting myself to airline travel. --kyler |
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You mean I have to tell them about
the heart transplant? =) "G.R. Patterson III" wrote: No, they insist that pilots don't NEED them. If they catch you lying, you will never be PIC again. |
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"Greg Burkhart" wrote in message
news:JHf_a.129888$o%2.56515@sccrnsc02... I have found the few times that I have flown on the airlines recently that security is inconsistant. To put it mildly. Yesterday, three people accidentally beached a fishing raft at JFK and then walked for a mile along a runway without being noticed! (The airport is "concerned" about the security lapse.) http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast...ers/index.html |
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"Newps" wrote in message et... Gary L. Drescher wrote: "Greg Burkhart" wrote in message news:JHf_a.129888$o%2.56515@sccrnsc02... I have found the few times that I have flown on the airlines recently that security is inconsistant. To put it mildly. Yesterday, three people accidentally beached a fishing raft at JFK and then walked for a mile along a runway without being noticed! It was nighttime. Just how were they going to be noticed? Runway light? |
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It's a lot like the "tough on crime" insanity which took away judge's
discretion and caused a host of problems. Everyone wants to out-do each other on how Tough On Terrorism they *appear* to be. This is unfortunately another one of those uncontrollable government spirals which will waste our money and cripple our economy and there is very little we can do about it. It's almost better to just let it run its course and get so horrifically bad faster, so it affects more of the public sooner, and some brave leader stands up and asks why we are hurting ourselves like this. "Aloft" wrote in message ... We're approaching an election year; time to make this an issue for the politicians. If they get enough voters asking them where they stand on restoring passenger rights and dignity, it WILL become important to them. |
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I heard that the tower noticed them and called the police dispatcher several
times and no officers were dispatched, so a lot of questions about security supervision are being asked. "Newps" wrote in message et... Gary L. Drescher wrote: "Greg Burkhart" wrote in message news:JHf_a.129888$o%2.56515@sccrnsc02... I have found the few times that I have flown on the airlines recently that security is inconsistant. To put it mildly. Yesterday, three people accidentally beached a fishing raft at JFK and then walked for a mile along a runway without being noticed! It was nighttime. Just how were they going to be noticed? |
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Ted Huffmire wrote: You mean I have to tell them about the heart transplant? =) I think that's one of the deadly questions, yes. George Patterson Brute force has an elegance all its own. |
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Peter Gottlieb wrote: It's almost better to just let it run its course and get so horrifically bad faster, so it affects more of the public sooner, and some brave leader stands up and asks why we are hurting ourselves like this. That strategy didn't work very well for the "war on drugs" insanity. George Patterson Brute force has an elegance all its own. |
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote: Peter Gottlieb wrote: It's almost better to just let it run its course and get so horrifically bad faster, so it affects more of the public sooner, and some brave leader stands up and asks why we are hurting ourselves like this. That strategy didn't work very well for the "war on drugs" insanity. George Patterson Brute force has an elegance all its own. I think they've given up on the drug war thing as a losing battle as appears to be chronic alcoholism and so the new culprit i which to go to war is .... tobacco products. Now before any nasties drift in from smokers [ciggs, pipes [*albeit 'sans' the rubber band and tin foil with the pin holes on the bowl thing...;-)...] or cigars] , I'm still a smoker as carried over from my former military days many moons ago [no lectures please!] but our governor is going literally ballistic about the thing. An ex-smoker himself [the worst kind! Their standard motto: "I did it so you MUST do it!"...] and notwithstanding his ongoing jihad of sorts with the Native American sovereign nation and internet tobacco product vendors [the gov wants his cut!], he pulled a sort of analogous Mayor Daley II King of the Universe move and issued an Executive Order forbidding national motor carriers [UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.] from delivering tobacco products within the state of NY at the risk of a $5,000 fine per occurrence although his authority does NOT extend to the federal post office. So too, a law was passed just weeks ago that forbids smoking in any NY bar --or-- restaurant whether they have separate smoker rooms or facilities or not! Whew! Suddenly, the smoker [including pipes and cigars] folks are akin to social pariahs, crack-heads and heroin addicts on a par with Charlie Manson and Osama bin Laden! I've never seen anything like it YET the gov' is literally gagging on his "Well, I'm greatly concerned about 13 year old Johnny and Janey ordering and using tobacco products" while he concurrently desires big time that tobacco tax and surcharge [upon surcharge upon surcharge] revenue! Who is kidding who...or is that 'whom'.... Doc Tony |
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message ... Peter Gottlieb wrote: It's almost better to just let it run its course and get so horrifically bad faster, so it affects more of the public sooner, and some brave leader stands up and asks why we are hurting ourselves like this. That strategy didn't work very well for the "war on drugs" insanity. So what's to be done? Have we become a nation of sheep to be herded my manipulative "leaders?" |
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