Who cares about the security of passengers?  They're dead when they board.  You know that.  If the plane is hijacked and the passengers can't recover it, it's going to be blown up.  You know that.

Airport security is about the security of people on the ground, who'll never see the threat coming until it's too late to run.   The whole "civil rights" argument about airport security misses them, somehow.  When exactly did the population of the USA who is not flying on an airplane, agree to be totally vulnerable to a terrorist attack, so 400 people could get across the country faster with less hassle?  I maintain WE didn't.  I sure didn't.  Again, if air is free, I'm going to go use it for storage without asking you for permission.

A lot of the complaining is ridiculously extreme.   I got sucked into a thread on a guy who brought a boat from Canada, and there was an error on his paperwork, and he refused to sign it, and get this: they didn't let him go home and mail in the customs declaration!

They stole his boat!  He got it back when he signed the corrected paperwork, but they stole it!

Nineeleveneses!! Nineelevenses!  Curse you DHS, we hates it, we hates it forever!!!

The fact that US customs works that way on the Canuck border since forever, is just not the point!

BTW I was not Ridiculously extreme, I was absolutely right: the ban on air travel violated nobody's rights.

If I have the right to an easement over your head without asking you or fulfilling government conditions, I'm gonna get some weather balloons and sell storage space in floating lockers.  Imagine the advantage I'll have over traditional storage facilities that have to rent land.  I'll just hover in the free air that nobody has the right to interdict, and if you don't like it you're a fascist.  Thbbpptt.

"Robur's Hawkmen Storage Kingdom" has a nice ring

I know exactly the opposite.
Did the CIA fake the Daniel Pearl video?  Or the Mumbai bombings?  Or the bombings of the Khobar Towers? 

Newsflash: Big Business wants to inflate the dollar to nothing.   They're going to secure a set % of GDP in "stimulus" and bailouts regardless of the value of the dollar.  They openly say we can do so because the rest of the human race is too stupid to stop buying American bonds.  Bloomberg said it last week, we have an infinite money supply.  They mean the US govt does, and they're going to be paid directly by the govt because they're too big to fail.  OPEC screwed up by not using inflation as a weapon wehn the US govt gave a damn aobut inflation of the dollar.  Too late now. Been too late since Bush got elected in 1988.

Maybe you're just dumb.  I mean, I tell you right out I want to bomb on extremist populations til they submit - I estimate 33% of military age males as casualties will do it, based on the collapse of the Central Powers / Axis / British Empire after 2 world wars.  I tell you that flat out, and you're still talking about what I really ought to want.  Why would I trade the security of war crimes for a gamble?  Why would I do that?   And yet, with that in front of us, I'm still agog you can't find Al Waldo wearing his stocking cap and his black jihad flag.  My bad.

Bush had it right when he banned air travel, nobody's rights were violated by searches during that month.

People who take the trouble to brand themselves "Al Qaeda" are asking for it, just as if they go and embrace the swastika.

Nope. I said to bomb them with gas, back on page 2.

You're still dancing around the question.  Apparently Al Qaeda is no threat to us anywhere. We shouldn't attack Al Qaeda anywhere.  Syria. Yemen.  Afghanistan.

Again I'm asking you for a concrete example of what should be done, and you can't even consider it.  You're trapped staring at America's navel.  You can't begin to complain about foreign terrorists.

Should we bomb Al Qaeda in Syria? Yes or No?  Without any talk of what we ARE doing.  Should we bomb Al Qaeda in Syria? Yes or No?

He should spend it across the street from school, eating Doritos and skateboarding.

Yes.

or

No.

I'd point out that if you think leaving Al Qaeda alone instead of bombing them and trusting they won't be a threat, is pretty damn offensive.  I mean, if I had joined a We Hate America fan league, and America cut us off from $60 million, I'd be PISSED.

Me I say bomb them.  With gas.

I didn't say we were though I'm sure we will.

YOU admit Al Qaeda's in Syria, making it one  of the few places you admit Al Qaeda is at.

Should we bomb them?  Yes or no?

what kind of check works like that?  They ask the chief of police if he heard of you?

He also told colleagues at America's top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.
Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.
It was the latest in a series of "red flags" about his state of mind that have emerged since the massacre at Fort Hood, America's largest military installation, on Thursday.
Hasan, armed with two handguns including a semi-automatic pistol, walked into a processing centre for soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he killed 13 and injured more than 30.
Fellow doctors have recounted how they were repeatedly harangued by Hasan about religion and that he openly claimed to be a "Muslim first and American second."
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One Army doctor who knew him said a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim soldier had stopped fellow officers from filing formal complaints.
Another, Dr Val Finnell, who took a course with him in 2007 at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland, did complain about Hasan's "anti-American rants." He said: "The system is not doing what it's supposed to do. He at least should have been confronted about these beliefs, told to cease and desist, and to shape up or ship out. I really questioned his loyalty."
Selena Coppa, an activist for Iraq Veterans Against the War, said: "This man was a psychiatrist and was working with other psychiatrists every day and they failed to notice how deeply disturbed someone right in their midst was."
One of Hasan's neighbours described how on the day of the massacre, about 9am, he gave her a Koran and told her: "I'm going to do good work for God" before leaving for the base.
A civilian police officer who shot him, bringing the rampage to an end, said Hasan appeared "calm" during the massacre, hiding behind a telephone pole and shooting fellow soldiers in the back as they tried to get away.
"He was firing at people as they were trying to run and hide, said Sgt Mark Todd. "Then he turned and fired a couple of rounds at me. I didn't hear him say a word, he just turned and fired."
Hasan flinched after he was shot and slid down against the pole still clutching his gun, which had a laser sight on it. The officer kicked away the weapon and handcuffed him.
He said: "The guy was breathing, his eyes were blinking. I could tell that he was fading out and he didn't say anything. He was just kind of blinking."
Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security, said there had been "strong warning signs" that Hasan was an "Islamist extremist".
The committee would ask "whether the Army missed warning signs that should have led them to essentially discharge him, he said. He added: "The US
Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone."
But General George Casey, the Army's Chief of Staff, said it was "speculation" that military authorities failed to pick up on warning signs. "I don't want to say that we missed it," he said.
Asked if military authorities had missed warning signs Gen Casey, the Army's Chief of Staff, added: "We have to go back and look at ourselves ,and ask ourselves the hard questions. Are we doing the right things? We will learn from this.
"It's too early to draw conclusions but we will ask ourselves the hard questions about what we are doing and the changes we should make as a result of this."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne … s-cut.html

Yeah it was totally coincidental this radical Muslim chose to write to an Al Qaeda cleric about the right and wrong of working in the US military.

" They use a service that advertises themselves as an escort, and men either call or email them. Then they request your name, number (if they don't have it), and place of work. They use this information to verify a client's identity and do a background check. They may also request references from other prostitutes. Alternatively, prostitutes are also creating services that do the background checks for them, and clients pay a monthly fee to be white listed by the service."

smells like identity theft