Horses and barn doors
After an attempted attack, more air marshals are flying.
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December 28th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Maybe the air marshal is supposed to shoot the guy while they’re both plummeting earthwards after the bomb detonates.
Talk about your security kabuki.
December 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
It has nothing to do with terrorism. It’s to deal with the passengers who start to fidget after being forced to sit and stare at nothing but the seat in front of them for an hour before landing (which will inevitably turn into an hour and a half, or more, as the landing is delayed), and can’t even read a book because they can’t have anything “in their laps.”
They can’t stop the terrorists without doing the politically unacceptable (targeted profiling), so they have to do more to control the innocent so it looks like they’re doing something productive.
December 28th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
The dude got on a plane with explosives. Lets focus on making sure that people don’t get onto planes with explosives on their person, no matter what religion they might be. Instead we have this whole bit about locking the plane down near the end of the flight because thats when the guy made his move. Lest we forget that the 9/11 hijackings occurred near the beginning of those flights.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
“Lets focus on making sure that people don’t get onto planes with explosives on their person, no matter what religion they might be.”
Bring on the cavity searches! Because flying just isn’t fun enough yet.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
The last I checked, they couldn’t keep people in the air marshal program. Boring. Too many rules including a crazy dress code. Etc.
I doubt it is much better under the new regime.
December 29th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Pretty soon, there will be anal probulation. Count on it. And, for those of y’all of the xx persuasion, yup, they’ll look up there, too. As somebody said at Bruce Schneier’s blog, ” I’ve seen whole people emerge from _that_ cavity, so a bomb would be no problem.”
(I did outrageously paraphrase what he wrote, but I think I preserved the sense of it.)
December 29th, 2009 at 2:20 am
P.s. I wonder what’ll happen the first time a, say, 25-year-old virgin female who’s never done any gymnastics, or horseback riding, or even curious self-fingering comes up against a TSA total cavity search?
December 29th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Justthisguy, she’d lose it to Uncle Sugar.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
The chances of getting on a commercial airliner with a bomb on it are something like 10,000 to 1. The chances of getting on a commercial airliner with two bombs on it are more than a million to 1. Therefore any time you fly you should carry a bomb and increase you chance of safety by a factor of 100. Providing, of course, you have no intention of detonating your bomb.
I can see that idea gaining favor with Napolitano.
January 1st, 2010 at 1:40 am
“I can see that idea gaining favor with Napolitano.”
Certainly. We could just hire people to do this job for us. As a matter of fact, to increase realism, we could hire nothing but Arab immigrants to do this job. No way that would… err… blow up in our faces, right?
/DHS announces this project in 3… 2… 1…