A senator has called for a “no-ride list” for Amtrak trains after intelligence gleaned from the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound pointed to potential attacks on the nation’s train system.
Sen. Charles Schumer said he would push as well for added funding for rail security and commuter and passenger train track inspections and more monitoring of stations nationwide…
Schumer, citing U.S. intelligence analysts, said attacks were also considered on Christmas and New Year’s Day and following the president’s State of the Union address.
Obviously, we should stop having holidays.
He called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expand the Secure Flight monitoring program, which cross-checks air travelers with the terror watch list in an attempt to prevent anyone on the “no-fly list” from boarding, for use on Amtrak.
Such a procedure would create an Amtrak “no-ride list” to keep suspected terrorists off the U.S. rail system, he said.
Let’s spend every possible penny on fear and trembling unto death.
#37 would rather have conservatives violating our freedoms because conservative hands on your genitals seems much more natural.
Regarding Reagan I’ll just quote Gil Scott-Heron
“But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the year from Shogun to Reagan, I remember what I said about Reagan, meant it. Acted like an actor Hollyweird. Acted like a liberal. Acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted like a republican. Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for president. And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate. We’re all actors in this I suppose.”
McCullough–make the record: what would you DO?
Nightstare is on record showing his good humor and irrelevant “do nothing” stance.
Can you come up with anything better?
And nightstar–given your humor, I will “assume” by nothing you mean a locked cockpit door and metal scanners and even maybe bomb sniffing sensors? The kind of pre-boarding protocols that people can just line up and go thru?
Or do you really mean “nothing?”
Blah blah progressives blah blah statist blah blah regulations blah blah non Christians are evil blah blah lame insults blah blah progressives blah blah birth certificate blah blah McCain/Palin/Trump/Cain/Paul will save us blah blah torture is good blah blah
You guys are too serious about Chuck Schumer. This is the Senator who once said the three branches of government are House, Senate, and President. He’s as confused as Nancy Pelosi.
The majority of Amtrak riders are the indigenous populous and I’ll bet we’ll see some caps popped in TSA’s ass.
/although the majority of TSA is the indigenous populous.
When does this crap end? When the phrase “papers please” becomes the norm. The way I see it it’s not far off the track we’re going down.
#41 Satire fail as the definition of conservative is to conserve (hold, believe) what went before:
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.-Benjamin Franklin
The TSA should be disbanded, not expanded.
Progressives laid to rest, not empowered.
#47 Even more ridiculous, the ONLY times progressives don’t want to see your papers is when you vote, or run for office.
Securing airports, the terminus points for air travel, is actually much easier than securing railroads, where the entire track must be secured at all times as well as the trains themselves.
One things for sure, at no point during your flight do you have to worry about the air not being there. (The perceived need for the “Grand Guignol of the TSA is because of the potential damage to the countryside caused by your falling several thousand feet, or several hundred feet in town, but into buildings.)
If they are seriously thinking of implementing an airport type security theatre for rail transit, they are seriously delusional because of the same track vulnerability pointed out in my first paragraph.
No self-respecting terrorist (or Resistance fighter during WWII,) wants to go out in a blaze of glory when he can plant some IEDs under a track potentially anywhere and stay alive instead. If he drives in some Bangalore torpedos and sets up a tremblor detonator, he can be well away and planting the next bomb while the first one goes off unattended.
I suspect that Schumer is an idiot or has a line in to a full body scanning outfit.
#43. It’s about money and control, as some have stated. But, if you wanna play.
Planes: You have already said it in the past. Air Marshalls, armed pilots and hardened cockpit. Passengers can take care of the rest. Just keep the metal detectors in place.
Trains, suck it up. There is nothing a passenger can do that can’t be done from the outside, with almost zero risk to the “evil doer”.
If we are going to be in war forever, maybe we need to take a few casualties. That’s what happens in War. We give collateral damage, gotta be willing to except some blowback. After we lose some people, maybe the warmonger-in-charge will stop trying to police the world.
We are our own worst enemy.
McCullough==you should be embarassed: we agree.
Now, let’s see if Nightstare will join making a happy band of three?
Just to keep things fair and balanced, here is an idiot Republican saying parents who have fat kiddies should not get a tax deduction for them.
Ha, ha. Power breeds fascism–regardless of party.
“It’s the parents’ responsibility that have obese kids,” said state Sen. Shane Cultra, R-Onarga. “Take the tax deduction away for parents that have obese kids.” /// In a followup, douche uses the “out of context” defense. Ha, ha–yah sure.
http://stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/article_ce1a393c-7b4e-11e0-b418-0019bb30f31a.html
#53 bobbo
Don’t be silly, that wasn’t intended as a factual statement. =)
By the way, is you want to know what a Bangalore torpedo is, is a bunch of pipes which can extend the reach of a demolition expect to subtly place an explosive charge under or next to the object he is trying to blow the fuck up.
#54
Damn browser cache. I need to save that name for riling up TeaDud
BTW, all the grandstanding after the OBL hit isn’t helping anyone except Obama’s numbers. If he had been smart, they would’ve been better off to say NOTHING about this hit, and when (if) Al Queda or the Pakistanis screamed about it….a wry smile and a shrug of the shoulders would have been more effective.
Better yet, since he was unarmed and there was no firefight, a capture (clandestine) might have also yielded much better results. But then Obamas poll numbers would still be in single digits, and we can’t have that.
Bobbo, you suggest taking other modes, but you see here it is the other modes being stamped out. Next people will take more buses, and the buses will be restricted. And of course automobiles will be restricted as well, through other means because checking IDs is too impractical for now.
#57 That’s accepting the premise they aren’t lying, that his bodyguards didn’t kill him as the seals arrived, and that’s why WE get no photo, or autopsy…
Rush Limbaugh has produced a T Shirt heralding our fearless commander in chief, extolling his kills:
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