DHS' Answer To Liquid Explosives Threat Is Nonsense

[JABBS]

Click here to read the latest stupidity from the dunderheads at the Department of Homeland Security.

Lipstick and baby food are in, mascara and baby teething rings are out. Will the plan thwart terrorists? Who knows. But it'll do a great job of confusing new mothers.

[librechik]

1. and no more shampoo at Granma's Punkin Patch in Wootchihoo Iowa

that's a major terror target you know. (or someplace very much like it)

[MindPilot]

2. Has anyone stopped to think that just maybe the plot itself

is the terrorism? All they have to do is concoct some scheme with a "Snakes On A Plane" level of probability, get themselves caught, and then sit back and watch the fun. The west is perfectly capable of wrecking their economy and giving away their freedoms we are supposedly hated for on nothing more than a perceived threat.

It's political and economic terrorism and we are falling for it hook, line and sinker.

[JABBS]

3. as the linked article says

Allowing nothing is easy to understand. This is B.S.

If you only need five ounces of something to blow something up, then why would you allow baby food, which comes in jars bigger than five ounces? And how is that different that allowing a baby teething ring, with a couple of ounces of gel inside?

Do the people at DHS actually think about these rules, or do they just keep changing them in order to keep us all confused and afraid?

[kestrel91316]

7. They keep changing things to keep us (their real enemy) off balance.

The people are the enemy of the fascist dictatorship. They are behaving like Big Brother in 1984 - this month we are at war with Eurasia. Next month it's Eastasia. Keep the masses confused.

[JABBS]

8. well, no

the enemy they give us is the amorphous "terrorist." we're fighting them in Iraq. we're fighting them in Afghanistan. We're fighting them when a plot is thwarted. We're fighting them potentially in Iran and Syria.

I don't know if the problem is that they want to keep us confused, or if they themselves are confused. DHS hasn't been right very often since it was formed -- might be a lack of brain power from the top on down.

[lgn19087]

10. Indeed

but I don't know what it will take to make the people rise up against the evil currently in power. What else is it going to take? surely, the majority of America isn't so stupid as to think that something as silly as "liquid explosives" could really be a threat...I mean, it's not even that GOOD of a lie, it's stupid!

[KKKarl is an idiot]

4. I have always said that

The 9/11 attack caused so much mayhem in our economy that we have still not recovered from it. We spend hundreds of billions in Iraq. Our freedoms are taken away because of this threat. That is what they want. So far I believe the terrorists are winning the so called "war on terror" because of the "fear factor".

[snappyturtle]

5. I think what you propose could in fact be the truth.

It certainly gives the administration "legs" to further obliterate our freedoms. I wonder if the whole sky terror thing will turn out to be a wet dream by those involved but it results in Mission Accomplished.......herding the sheeple and getting them to go along with more regulation. Deregulate everything else but keep those damn people under control! I bet Tony and * got quite a chuckle over the havoc they created this past weekend.....power, more power over the people.

[JABBS]

6. also note that Chertoff

said yesterday that DHS needs more power.

C'mon. The problem isn't power. It's not money -- $200 million of R&D money was unspent, and taken back by Congress. The problem is competency. Whether it's Katrina, making Indiana the top terrorist target, suggesting that mass transit doesn't deserve as much attention as airports (after London and Madrid) ... the problem is these guys are one, two, three steps behind.

Japan HANDED US THE TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT LIQUID EXPLOSIVES (see other thread), and DHS did nothing for seven months. Now that liquid explosives almost blew up a bunch of planes over the Atlantic, DHS will finally test the technology -- which has been used in Japan for a year.

[snappyturtle]

9. I understand completely what you're saying.....

I grew up in Indiana until I graduated from I.U. Couldn't wait to leave even though my family is still there. There is only one thing I can think of that needs protection in Indiana. It's a communication project my father worked on when he was the SAC for the F.B.I. in Hammond. Other than that it's a joke. The once grand refineries and steel mills are all but gone and the rest is basically rural stuff......my mother is still on the family farm. Not that it isn't important but not as important as SO many places along our coastal areas and Chicago----can't help that one.

Edit: the communications project is probably way of of date by now!!! So, there's nada.