Comments on: Whole-body scanners can’t detect hidden explosives, so why have them anyway?

By: jbellies

jbellies — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:19:32 +0000

#12 +1

But couldn’t work here. Most any high school graduate in Israel (or, not to be racist, Scotland or Hungary or …) could be trained to do any of the six levels. Here in North America, people that competent are busy writing themselves million dollar annual bonus checks.

As G. Gordon Liddy said to Vicky Gabereau, “What would I need a gun for? I could kill you with a ball-point pen.” It’s for show.

By: Tomas Estrada-palma

Tomas Estrada-palma — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:59:37 +0000

Don’t kid yourselves. You will be totally naked like this unsuspecting young woman.

If you see this woman please tell her she is naked on the Internet.

By: Cherman

Cherman — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:44:27 +0000

#9, it has never been tried.

By: nowickisrj

nowickisrj — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:05:25 +0000

And if they turn up the juice it can act as an “active denial system”!

By: pedro

pedro — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:09:23 +0000

#35 No, I think he’s right. Rushdie would have avoided all those problems if he refrained from publishing the Satanic Verses. The Danish cartoonist is just a moron and deserves death for lampooning Mohammed

By: deowll

deowll — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:00:19 +0000

“Oh, and the solution for stop being attacked is simple: (1), stop bombing the sh** out of the Middle East, and (2), let the airlines do the security.

Simple, huh?”

Simply ignorant. Let me explain the rules again. Convert or die infidel.

Yeah I know. You can’t believe anyone would kill somebody else for religious reasons despite the millions of people that have been killed for religious reasons.

By: amodedoma

amodedoma — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:13:35 +0000

So what are they gonna do when the terrorist decide to have explosives surgically installed, if you’re suicidal I imagine that it wouldn’t matter. Xray every passenger? No that’s no good. I guess one solution would be to heavily sedate every passenger and stick them in specially designed life support capsules then load them up like so much cord wood, no meals, no stewardess, no movie, no drinks, no peanuts. They could even wait to wake you up once your past customs and security. The way things are going I’d say the future might be like that.

By: RSweeney

RSweeney — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:52:53 +0000

Since doctors can’t cure all disease, why have them?

By: LOWER CASE SCREEN NAME

LOWER CASE SCREEN NAME — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:35:52 +0000

After the Whizzinator incident, Simply seeing a guys junk on a screen isn’t going to be good enough. The TSA needs to hire a ton of women to give a full handjob to every male flyer to make sure he’s functional and not just sporting an explosive prosthesis. Same thing goes for boobs, they could be fake and need to be fully massaged and checked out.

By: pedro

pedro — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:27:05 +0000

#23 What an excellent job you’re doing. You’ve been promoted to Corporal Sheeple.

#24 Ah, a lefty loon trying to be sarcastic pointing at the other extreme of absurdity. Close, but no cigar.

#26 Get in the same bag as #24.

By: Dr. DoLittle or not much anyway

Dr. DoLittle or not much anyway — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:00:25 +0000

Wanna deter terrorist and bod explosives, circulate a picture of that asshole naked who just burnt his dick and balls off.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:39:29 +0000

So… what is a reasonable description of the terrorists we are looking for? We do have an idea of what to look for you know. Why don’t we concentrate our efforts on those suspects and give the majority of statistically safe passengers a break?

Read the link in post #12. The Israelis can teach us a thing or two about effective security.

By: HeeHee

HeeHee — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:55:07 +0000

How boring. The “usual suspects” show up with their ridiculous, hateful, ignorant, bombs cure everything, bulls–t.

How nice to see other people post today. Some seem to be able to actually think. They must be here because they’re off from work due to the holiday.

I do agree with the comments about useless, expensive equipment, though. Dogs are much cheaper and do an immensely better job, and if they get tired or bored, get more dogs.

A happy and healthy new year to all, even the jerks.

By: amodedoma

amodedoma — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:03:48 +0000

There’s never going to be a 100% effective security measure. It all comes down to how you want to live. If you fly there’s a better probability of dying in an accident caused by improper maintenance, than in a terrorist attack. It has always been true, even back in the 60′s and 70′s when hijackings were commonplace. The US government needs to maintain a context of fear to keep it’s citizens motivated to fight unjustifiable wars.

By: Reason

Reason — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:37:04 +0000

Dear Cretins (esp #3),

Let’s kill everybody but you and your friends. That’s the logical conclusion to your solution, right? You certainly are the enlightened future of the world. Christ calls you up for advice.

Violence begets violence and does not solve it.

But that fact escapes both you and the simple minds who blow up other people thinking it solves something.