The joke called TSA

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"Gary Drescher" wrote:

Pilots also figure prominently among the group that committed the 9/11
atrocities. In fact, the percentage of pilots in the US who carried out the
9/11 attacks is greater than the percentage of Muslims in the US who carried
out the attacks. So if you were to have selected a pilot at random for
screening (without regard to religion or ethnicity), you'd be more likely to
have selected a 9/11 hijacker than you'd be if instead you were to have
selected a Muslim at random for screening (without regard to pilot status).

how many of the 9/11 pondscum were pilots?

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Bob Noel
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"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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how many of the 9/11 pondscum were pilots?


Ohh!! Ohh!! I think I know this one! NONE!

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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:03:39 -0800, wrote:



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depends on whose ox is being gored.

I suspect there would have been a hue and cry from young white
christians if we had singled them out as terror suspects after McVeigh
and Nichols bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City.

"White" is a racial group. "Christian" is not.


So?

I think the profiling advocates favor the singling out of young Arab
Muslims, because they once acted as terrorists.

Once? I guess so in this country if you discount the 1193 attempt to bring
down the WTC. Otherwise, they are known to as a group (not all by any means)
to be Hell-bent on following the creed of Bin laden.



So why not young white christians when they do the same?

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

No, I'm teaching.

Steve,

It must be really cold in Green Bay now, because you are here more.
Have you gotten the snow plow and shovels out to take care of first
things first, and thus keep the wife happy?

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"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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how many of the 9/11 pondscum were pilots?


Ohh!! Ohh!! I think I know this one! NONE!

"FAA records show that four of the 19 hijackers-one aboard each
flight-possessed FAA certificates as qualified pilots."
--9/11 Commission
(http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_...tatement_4.pdf)

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"FAA records show that four of the 19 hijackers-one aboard each
flight-possessed FAA certificates as qualified pilots."
--9/11 Commission
(http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_...tatement_4.pdf)


FAA records indicate that none of the hijackers were qualified in the
aircraft they were flying.

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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how many of the 9/11 pondscum were pilots?

Ohh!! Ohh!! I think I know this one! NONE!

"FAA records show that four of the 19 hijackers-one aboard each
flight-possessed FAA certificates as qualified pilots."
--9/11 Commission
(http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_...tatement_4.pdf)

FAA records indicate that none of the hijackers were qualified in the
aircraft they were flying.

Nor were they astronauts, or neurosurgeons. I merely noted that several of
them were pilots; you mistakenly asserted above that "NONE!" were pilots.

--Gary

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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FAA records indicate that none of the hijackers were qualified in the
aircraft they were flying.


Nor were they astronauts, or neurosurgeons. I merely noted that several of
them were pilots; you mistakenly asserted above that "NONE!" were pilots.


They weren't engaged in space travel or performing neurosurgery. They were
flying 757/767s, none of them were 757/767 pilots.

"C Kingsbury" writes:
Objectively speaking, the #1 job of the TSA is to prevent another 9/11-style
hijacking. While we can argue that Thousands Standing Around is at turns
rude, inefficient, and as kafkaesque as every other bureaucracy, we have not
had another 9/11. I've traveled ~300k miles commercial since 9/11 so I know
what a pain it is. Perhaps the TSA has nothing to do with the fact that we
haven't seen another suicide hijacking here.

There haven't been any elephant stampedes in Central Park,
either...

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Irrelevant.


Actually, it's completely relevant.



His point was that if you profiled pilots instead of Arabs, you would
have had a greater proablility of a hit on a 9/11 hijacker.


Would we? What fraction of worldwide terrorism is perpetrated by Arabs and
what fraction is perpetrated by pilots?