> I've said it before here; I'm convinced that heightened > airport security would have thwarted the attacks.
Oh, for Christ's sake. I didn't even think you'd come up with something as lame as that. I fly quite a bit. I'll give you this: increased airport security is a complete waste of time by the Bush administration, and it's only being done to make the flying public see the visible face of Homeland Security. Might as well give us all happyface not-a-terrorist stickers on our foreheads for all the good it does. I'm so sick of taking my shoes off and pulling out my laptop. They don't even make me turn on my cell phone and pager anymore like they used to. I travel with a dead laptop battery from watching too much porn in the terminal, since they never make me turn that on either anymore. Since I learned the proper ways to genuflect and walk around in my socks, it's been months since they pulled me out of line. And my bags always have so much suspicious electronics that they should be surrounding me with machine guns. Once I got my attitude right, no problems. Too bad about that poor geezer in the wheelchair crying over there in the corner because they're stripsearching him to make quota. Trust me, if I wanted to blow up a plane, it would get blown up. If I wanted to take one over, it would get taken over. It does a lot more good to tell commercial pilots that if they wander out of where they're supposed to be, and don't answer the phone, they're going to die, than it does to pretend to seach me. Here, you want to prevent terrorism on planes? Put a little card in the seat pocket along with the "how to put your oxygen mask on before you help your baby" card that says, "If this plane is hijacked, you have about 5 minutes to take care of the problem before the Air Force does. Don't be a pussy if you want to live." By the way, can you quote me the Gore speech where he said he would beef up airport security if elected to prevent terrorist attacks? > We know > that Ashcroft quit flying commercial because of a threat > assessment. If it was enough of a threat to keep Ashcroft > off the planes, why wasn't it enough to increase security? I love it when people say, "We know..." The best cable shows about UFOs say "We know..." a lot. Maybe they kept Ashcroft off because they knew that Americans would hijack the plane just to get the porcine bastard killed. Hell, it would tempt me. I don't love the Bushies. But they get it right on the only issue that matters right now, so screw the gays, screw pornographers, casino owners and people who have been stupid enough to get within shouting distance of a terrorist cell. We'll make it up to you after we deal with Islam. Trust me. You're better off being denied a marriage license than being blown up on the BART. > We also know that while under Reno, anti-terrorism was a > "tier one priority" Yeah, too bad she thought it was all going in in Waco and Ruby Ridge. All I can say is what an incompetent Frankenstein-looking junkyard refrigerator if it was her #1 priority and she didn't do a damn thing to help. What exactly did her making it a #1 priority make turn out better, pray tell? > while under Ashcroft, it didn't make the > top seven. You know, despite my personal distaste for Ashcroft, I'll bet he gets more done with #7 on his task list than Reno did with #1. > It doesn't seem to far fetched to me to assume > that a field agent throwing up flags about suspected > terrorists taking flying lessons and asking about airport > security would have been taken more seriously by an > administration that had made anti-terrorism a priority. You've never worked for a large corporation, have you? Or if you have, you're one of those people that everyone shakes their heads about. Of course, you don't know about the head shaking, do you? Or you wouldn't be so enamored of Janet Reno's Powerpoint slides with terrorism as #1. Let me leave you with this: Condi Rice versus Janet Reno. Pick your venue. Thunderdome. Celebrity Death Match. One two three four I declare a thumb war. > And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Oh, whatever. I guess the John Birch Society had to be reincarnated somewhere, and the left this year is a huge petri dish anyway. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
