Thank God these idiots didn't try to hide explosives up their asses.

If the response to a group of british/pakistanis plotting to hide explosives in drink containers on US bound flights is to make EVERY person throw away all their liquid items on every flight in the US (despite no evidence there were people in on the plot in the US) and UK, imagine what the response would have been if they decided to hide the explosives in a tube up their own asses...

Terrorists! Don't go there! Please!

Now THAT'd be one heckuva dirty job.

I was a parole officer for 5 years, straight outta college. My job frequently took me into various prisons. At our state's maximum securty prison, there is an intake hall where new prisoners are processed in.

"The Hall" had 3 rooms.
#1 - Disrobe
#2 - Cavity Search
#3 - Rerobe

Some poor correctional officer sat on a stool in Room #2, with a small maglight and did what no person should be asked to do.

Even if they got caught, every traveling American would get screwed from then on.

Damnnnnnnn

They are so expert at kissing Bush's sphincter they'd be pros!

:evilgrin:

(from "South Park").

Or we will surely die

:spray:

They're just getting us used to more and more intrusive searches, ever more outrages committed in the name of "security" Today, it is throwing away liquids, next year it could very well be "assume the position, turn your head and cough".

They have no intention of making us safer because they know there's little or no threat to the average American. Easier to hit the lotter than get vaporized by a terrorist.

Railways & bus travel because a whole lot of people would stop traveling on planes.

1 - Bojinka was planned and an actual airplane bombing that cost one Japanese passenger his life had already been carried out mid-90's with a liquid explosive brought aboard in a contact lens solution bottle. So the idiots in Bush Admin, HS and TSA already knew this was freakin' possible - so why didn't they put this ban in effect on Sept 12th, 2001?

2 - If I'm a terrorist and now I know I can't bring the liquid aboard in my carry-on, what do I do? Well I either tape it to my body or I do what inmates do, I hide it in a body cavity. Ask any prison guard what inmates manage to hide in body cavities. Hell I've seen stories of inmates hiding knives in their rectum. So 99.9999999...% of the flying public are now going to be inconvenienced cause these idiots in the UK who got themselves infilitrated and apparently had to stay in touch with their superiors couldn't stay off the freakin' electronic communications which they know had to be monitored.

3 - And if I'm a terrorist and I don't want to go the liquid smuggling route but I still want to take some airplanes out I go to Plan B - I put the explosives with a timer or altitude trigger in my freakin' checked luggage.

TSA and their counterparts in the UK are freakin' idiots. Look for terrorists not for freakin' weapons by banning everything liquid from every freakin' passenger.

So unless we're all going to fly naked w/o luggage and undergo cavity searches or they get machines that can scan bodies (I wouldn't object to the latter personally, I'm not that shy about my body) they need to get some common sense. I'm more afraid of flying in bad weather than I am of being the unlucky passenger on a flight that a terrorist picks to bomb. Figure my odds are about the same as getting hit by lightning or winning the Powerball.