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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
No. When the problem rears its head, deal with it. But its not realistic to ban everything that can be made a weapon. Taken to its logical conclusion, under your reasoning, we'd have to fly naked. There is a certain amount of risk in anything. You're using an unrealistic standard to try to make our govt's efforts look bad. Suppose we discover bombs can be fashioned from cotton due to some Islamist chemist's brilliant discovery of some ion that turns the fiber to an explosive. Given that info, whould we then bar cotton clothing on planes?
I don't think its the best thing since sliced bread at all. Like I said yesterday, I recognize the govt can only protect us so far. Like I said yesterday, I don't expect it to be my guardian angel, as so may of your Democrats do. Life's terminal, Ty. Uncle Sam cannot save you all the time.
But fuck all that. You understand the govt's limitations. You'll attack our GOP admin right now on anything - even if it forces you to hold it to absurd standards - because you'd rather chew shale than give up an opportunity to take shots at it, or worse, concede its doing an ok job on some fronts.
I know what you're doing, and its pretty toolish. Just drop this one. You're beginning to look like me arguing with Fringey about ERISA.
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What Penske said about Israel. DHS is a mess. It's been a mess for years. I have said this for years. In particular, it drives me nuts that they can't hire smarter people who can exercise some judgment. I have said this before, and it's still true. The fact is, it's a GOP administration and a GOP Congress that have let this happen for five years since 9/11. Now we find ourselves talking about it this week, again, for obvious reasons.
If liquid explosives are a problem, then either we should have been preventing people from carrying them on for years -- Ramzi Yousef was experimenting with them in the Phillipines before 9/11, as I recall -- or we should do something else, like make people stand in a small lead-lined room and shake their baggage vigorously before they carry them on (the liquid explosives are pretty volatile). But there is simply no fucking excuse for doing nothing for years and years and then having this fire drill this week.
And you're not even trying to defend them.
