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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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See we sort of agree on this, although one problem is the lack of willingness on the part of the American people to suffer some sacrifice. When intelligent people can bithc and moan about regulation related to bringing hand lotion on, that is indicative of a problem with perceptions and priorities. Even if some of the regs are overkill, so what?
If people are upset over a hand lotion ban, then the real security measures thsat need to be put in place will never fly. NPI. LOL.
