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(AP) Silly 10000 people placed on the No-Fly List in 2011. Take that, really lousy terrorists who didn't have a backup plan   (hosted.ap.org) divider line 14
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rubi_con_man
2012-02-02 10:05:48 AM
I'm just going to say this once :

Just take all the fair-haired blue-eyed, fair-skinned people out of the whole security thing. I mean LOOK at me. you still want me to take my shoes off (how often do they disinfect those floors?!) and put everything through the scanners! There is no way that I would do that. Think of how much cheaper and faster it would be if you did that!? You already intimidate the brown people enough. Having to shift your focus to us whites only distracts you from consistently analyzing their brown-person body language vocabulary in their evil cultural milieu.
 
Duke Slater
2012-02-02 10:05:49 AM
I have a fairly common name, and a few years ago it became a giant hassle to fly because that name was on the no fly list ( I fly a lot). Then a gate agent told me to book with my middle initial - Duke J. Slater instead of Duke Slater. Haven't had a problem since.

So presumably Osama Bin Laden could have flown hassle free if he had booked as Osama B. Laden. Feel safer America?
 
Xenu's Giant Pink Replicock
2012-02-02 10:12:13 AM
You don't need a backup plan when: Mission Accomplished.

Destroy America's way of life: check
Die a martyr: check
Get your death photos released so your followers rage: we're working on that for him
 
watson.t.hamster
2012-02-02 10:26:26 AM
If they're dangerous enough not to be allowed on a plane arrest them and give them a trial. If they aren't dangerous why are they being punished?

It makes no sense. We suspect you might try to kill thousands of americans so you're free purchase a gun, rent a van, buy tons of nitrogen based fertilizer, and so on and even to move about without supervision BUT NOT ON A PLANE! There, foiled your nefarious plans.
 
Wyalt Derp
2012-02-02 10:39:09 AM
 
Guidette Frankentits
2012-02-02 10:56:53 AM
Terrorists can still own matches, gasoline and cars right?
 
FormlessOne
2012-02-02 11:01:18 AM
watson.t.hamster: If they're dangerous enough not to be allowed on a plane arrest them and give them a trial. If they aren't dangerous why are they being punished?

It makes no sense. We suspect you might try to kill thousands of americans so you're free purchase a gun, rent a van, buy tons of nitrogen based fertilizer, and so on and even to move about without supervision BUT NOT ON A PLANE! There, foiled your nefarious plans.

It's not about protecting us. It's about intimidating us. We are no longer free to move about the country.

There has been talk recently of extending the TSA's authority to buses, trains, subways, and ferries - basically, to any form of public travel. VIPR has been extended to private travel, too, as they're performing searches on private vehicles.

They're not looking for terrorists - they're confirming citizenship. They're not worried about bombs. Given that TSA employees apparently can't find a bomb even when one's presented to them, this isn't about your safety. They don't care about your safety, just your obedience.
 
watson.t.hamster
2012-02-02 11:35:57 AM
FormlessOne: watson.t.hamster: If they're dangerous enough not to be allowed on a plane arrest them and give them a trial. If they aren't dangerous why are they being punished?

It makes no sense. We suspect you might try to kill thousands of americans so you're free purchase a gun, rent a van, buy tons of nitrogen based fertilizer, and so on and even to move about without supervision BUT NOT ON A PLANE! There, foiled your nefarious plans.

It's not about protecting us. It's about intimidating us. We are no longer free to move about the country.

There has been talk recently of extending the TSA's authority to buses, trains, subways, and ferries - basically, to any form of public travel. VIPR has been extended to private travel, too, as they're performing searches on private vehicles.

They're not looking for terrorists - they're confirming citizenship. They're not worried about bombs. Given that TSA employees apparently can't find a bomb even when one's presented to them, this isn't about your safety. They don't care about your safety, just your obedience.

I was actually kind of hopeful that Obama would do away with this. Not necessarily out of principle but to win votes and in distance himself from Bush.

Instead he expanded it.

I guess we're stuck with it from now on.

/any program that makes it through both a republican and democratic controlled regime isn't likely to disappear.
 
Don't Troll Me Bro! [TotalFark]
2012-02-02 12:00:18 PM
Guidette Frankentits: Terrorists can still own matches, gasoline and cars right?

And fertilizer and drano and ammonia and propane and acetylene and all kinds of other fun things. However, the rocketry club at the local high school wanting to journey beyond class C engines is right out. You want a nice chem-set for your budding scientist? That's suspicious. After all, you could buy 1000 of those sets and have enough of a compound to do something bad.

The terrorists won bigger than they ever dreamed they could.

I'm off to put 15 gallons of volatile flammable liquids in a piece of heavy machinery and drive past a school now. (fill up the tank and run errands, passing Madison East High along the way, for all you alarmists.)
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2012-02-02 12:39:34 PM
Looks like all those stone killers out to bring down our civilization will have to use Alamo (the miles are free).
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2012-02-02 12:43:20 PM
Duke Slater: Then a gate agent told me to book with my middle initial - Duke J. Slater instead of Duke Slater. Haven't had a problem since.

That's a complex search program those guys are using there.

/I think this thread just violated the patriot act.
//I keed, I keed.
///I hope.
 
Surool
2012-02-02 01:17:48 PM
You won't be laughing when they start flying busses into buildings subby!
 
groppet
2012-02-02 06:20:24 PM
Wow they still use the no fly list illusion of securty BS. Glad I dont have to fly anymore it was sucking enough when I did.
 
pastaboy
2012-02-03 05:36:05 PM
I wonder how many people were taken off the no-fly list? Unless I am wrong and Homeland security is infallible.
 
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