Ohhhhh, they are gonna get us one way or the other...

[madmatt]

Implanted bombs: TSA warns of possible terrorist threat of bombs implanted in people - latimes.com

Afraid to go outside yet?
I have to admit them pesky terrarists are persistant. They are gonna blow up a airplane no matter what.

[knumbskull]

i saw this in the documentary Dark Knight

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Just saw that. Not for nuthin, but my insides explode, daily, to the chgrin of my family, friends and co workers.

[MatticusMania]

Whats TSA gonna do about it? Ask me to take my shows off and put them on a conveyor belt?

On my way home from Maui I got "randomly selected" for an inspection. Some lady put some card on my carryon, took it off, and put it in some machine that goes Bing. She then said I was alright. Guess they determined my tiki statue was not a bomb.

[Stinsok]

What's going to happen to some poor bastard with a pace maker? The TSA (Thievery Society of America) will go nuts.

[CDweller]

More fodder for the massive reduction in civil liberties we, the citizens of the United States, are enduring. "Let's make people more afraid, and then grope them and subject them to even more cancer causing body scans".

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/3...agents-cancer/


TSA= thousands sexually assaulted.

[jmattbassplaya]

Like I've been saying for years now, if terrorists want to cause us harm then they will do so no matter what. There are no amount of security measures that we can put in place that will stop every attack. We can either live in fear and allow ourselves to be stripped of our freedoms or we can choose to acknowledge that this is simply the world we live in and be a free people.

[Cabazon]

George W Bush mentioned how the terrorists hate our freedom and want to destroy it...
They're doing a pretty good job so far.

[stratovani]

This was one of the first stories on tonight's NBC News. I think it's a government conspiracy to make us even more afraid and surrender more of our freedoms in order to be more secure. One thing they did mention was the difficulty of finding doctors to perform the surgery and what possible side effects there would be from having explosives in the body for any length of time.

[Jay Ralston]

I remember the good ol days when Americans protected themselves not the Govt. Why isn't it that any law enforcement officer can't carry his firearm on a plane? Here is a simple solution. As a peace officer, I have taken an oath to protect the public 24 hours a day, even when off duty. You simply notify the pilot you are an officer, show I.D. and weapon and let them know should anything go wrong, you are trained to protect them.

[fourstringdrums]

I've heard of people (musicians, actors etc..) hoping to blow up, but this is taking it a little bit too far.

[Stinsok]

Originally Posted by fourstringdrums

I've heard of people (musicians, actors etc..) hoping to blow up, but this is taking it a little bit too far.

It is possible.

YouTube - ‪Farm Film Report2‬‏

[Strat-Mangler]

I'd be interested in seeing stats for how many bombs the TSA found with all of these precautions put in place.

Chance of us seeing these numbers? Zero. The TSA would be ashamed of admitting indirectly that these precautions saved almost nobody and that the tradeoff has been taxing on everybody for nothing.

[Stinsok]

Another way to distract you while they steal your stuff.

[jmattbassplaya]

Originally Posted by Stinsok

Another way to distract you while they steal your stuff.

And cop a feel on your junk

[Hawaii Islander]

Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

Like I've been saying for years now, if terrorists want to cause us harm then they will do so no matter what. There are no amount of security measures that we can put in place that will stop every attack. We can either live in fear and allow ourselves to be stripped of our freedoms or we can choose to acknowledge that this is simply the world we live in and be a free people.

I agree with your sentiment. Hand wringing about what disasters lay around the next corner is no way to live. IMO

[TheSuzie]

Originally Posted by Jay Ralston

I remember the good ol days when Americans protected themselves not the Govt. Why isn't it that any law enforcement officer can't carry his firearm on a plane? Here is a simple solution. As a peace officer, I have taken an oath to protect the public 24 hours a day, even when off duty. You simply notify the pilot you are an officer, show I.D. and weapon and let them know should anything go wrong, you are trained to protect them.

So you have been trained in on-plane scenarios, have selected your weapon and load such that it is less likely to take the plane down if you are forced to discharge it and studied the structure and other engineering features of the various models of airliners such that you can use them to your advantage if needed and your actions are less likely to impair the operation and control of the plane and its' eventual safe return to earth?

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by TheSuzie

So you have been trained in on-plane scenarios, have selected your weapon and load such that it is less likely to take the plane down if you are forced to discharge it and studied the structure and other engineering features of the various models of airliners such that you can use them to your advantage if needed and your actions are less likely to impair the operation and control of the plane and its' eventual safe return to earth?

+1

Exactly what I was going to say.

Originally Posted by MatticusMania

Whats TSA gonna do about it? Ask me to take my shows off and put them on a conveyor belt?

On my way home from Maui I got "randomly selected" for an inspection. Some lady put some card on my carryon, took it off, and put it in some machine that goes Bing. She then said I was alright. Guess they determined my tiki statue was not a bomb.

Happened to me last time I flew too. Took less than a minute to be told what they were doing, swipe and read from the machine. They can show tiny traces of chemicals/drugs/traces. Hardly an inconvenience.

[bassrique]

We're just going to have to keep coming up with counter measures. Those that say this isn't a problem are wrong. If a few planes go down, our teetering economy goes down the toilet.

[i_got_a_mohawk]

If any other planes were to go wrong, I wonder how many would blame the government . . .