How come no mention of cavity searches?!?! What a frickin’ joke.
Please don’t give them any ideas.
What hacks me off the most is that from all reports we knew who this guy was? And for all these new security measures, it seems like the only thing that will really stop these guys is their own retardation and other passengers willing to open a can of whoop-ass at a moments notice. I guess no more Ambien on international flights for me, I might have to go Charlie Sheen on Sudanesse goat herder next to me at a moments notice.
Now I can’t play blanket bingo with the bimbo next to me! There goes the fun of interenational travel. I’ve heard that they can’t divorce the maps from the movies yet so have fun running a laptop for 17 hrs.
Plus it sounds like the guy hung the explosives from a sack hung from his midsection. Having someone palpate me trying to figure out if there are two huevos or three does not make up for the loss of blanket bingo.
To reduce costs with the socialized medicine, you’ll just get your rectal exam at the airport from now on.
Can we at least get some strippers to do the pat downs? They seem to be able to tell with just a glancing touch how many 20s I have in my wallet. I’m tired of being screened by TSA agents that look like the people we are trying to keep off of airplanes.
Screw Gitmo with its sleep deprivation, stress positions and physical abuse, I fly Delta.
Some pretty stupid steps being taken and I say this as a .gov worker. No movement 1 hour before arrival? So that means if I’m Johnny Terrorist, I just need to detonate the bomb 1.5 hours prior to arrival…No hands concealed under blanket 1 hour prior to arrival, so I just need to get myself warmed up before then?
And I read on a news site this morning that some dumb ass in Nigeria is pinning this on TSA. Did the dude not get on the flight overseas? I know in some places (the Bahamas for instance), TSA has folks PCS who are part of the security process before you board the flight to the U.S. Not sure if that’s the case here, but the dude transited two countries before reaching U.S. airspace. Flying was already a pain after 9/11. It’ll be a complete cluster after this shit.
The Terrorists keep winning.
Security theater…nothing more. Although this new stuff is probably getting close to the point where a hell of a lot more people are going to start to see through the curtain of ridiculousness.
Homeland Security is the most dysfunctional politicized organization in govt. It gets a huge budget, some of the best pay, and has some of the biggest idiots working for it.
Your tax dollars at work!
The one thing that needs to be done WILL NOT be done. Honestly, at this point we need to have a Walter Conkite moment and just admit “The war is now unwinnable.”
8 years of this nonsense and ‘we’ haven’t learned a damn thing.
Great, and now they get to run our healthcare!
I hope this is BS.
No hands under blankets. I feel safer already. Can we use snuggies?
Dude… I can not stop laughing!
Im all for the Stripper Pat-Down… Hell if they get some hot chicks with nice fake Double-D’s Ill change my name to Muhammad Al-Muhammad just so I can get them to pat me down some more!
I had just gotten my pilot’s license when 9/11 happend and I swear… I was harassed more at the airport than a guy wearing a towel from Howard Johnson on his head and his mother’s nightgown… 19y/o white boy being searched because I am able to fly a plane. TSA is ass backwards…
How about you don’t let these retards on the plain in the first place?
I forsee the airlines going bankrupt over all this crap.
Pretty soon you are going to have to submit to a body cavity search and then vomit your stomach contents into a bag to get on the damn plane.
Here is a pretty interesting writeup about Israel’s airport security.
I heard a really effective technique described by one of the guests on the news yesterday. Apparently, they send uniformed officers to the gate area to stand around. Then they observe the reactions of the people in the gate area.
Presumably the bad guys are unable to keep a straight face when confronted with such laughable techniques.
M_P
The 1 hour prior to landing in your seat requirement was already pulled, it was in effect for like 48 hours, I guess even the TSA realized it would do nothing. They also pulled the disabling of on board entertainment and communication systems thing as well. The not making announcements of where you are is still in effect though.
I don’t get the “Grand Canyon on your right rule”. I guess it might help US based terrorists whose crappy education doesn’t allow them to identify landmarks from an airplane window. I think foreigners would be educated enough to know where they were by looking out the window.
The person to the left of me has swine flu, the person to the right has injested condoms full of heroin, and the guy in front of my is massaging his 'taint with 100g of PETN, the waitress is too fat to fit down the aisle and too short to put bags in the overheard and learned customer service at Ed Debevic’s. Lock and Load, this is going to be a fun flight!
When do we start carpet bombing Yemen? Just once I’d like to see us go old school and carpet bomb someone. Just a square mile of craters. Get Cartheginian on someone.
I don’t know Ed Debevic but you sure nailed the rest of that statement!
There is cloud cover over a lot of the US all the time. So some guy cant see Wash D.C. out the window due to cloud cover(or sitting in the middle seat and cant see out the window), but the pilot says “our route of flight today will take us over Wash D.C. and down into Savannah, GA”. Any terrorist that knows anything about airplanes(and it has been proven time and time again that they know a lot more than we think they do) can plan(already has planned), and probably get close, time wise from say NYC down over Wash D.C. and be close enough(even though at 35k feet) to rain airplane parts down on the National Mall. Same would go for any city in the USA from any international destination. That is why they dont want us giving our route information to the passengers any more. If they dont know what route we are taking(even though we fly almost the same route all the time) it is much harder to go “ok 37 minutes into the flight we should be over XXX city, time to blow up my underwear bomb”.