Believe me, the terrorists don’t need any fresh new ideas, they’ve got plenty of their own…
Tracklayer
Why isn’t Homeland Security concerned about parked SUV’s at shopping malls? After all, some Al Qaida affiliate might steal one, fill it full of an IED, then return it and set it off. Just the fuel in the gas tank, properly dispersed, would make an impressive fireball!
Reality check time. There is no such thing as perfect safety! Ever since our pre-human ancestors started walking upright life has been full of dangers. The real difference between then and today is the distance at which we perceive danger. Until fairly recently, it was limited by human sight, hearing and (extremely limited) sense of smell. Now, if somebody bombs a night club in Indonesia, the media make a big to-do and people in New Haven and Memphis cancel their plans for a night out.
Unless we all move into enclaves designed like Cheyenne Mountain we will continue to be exposed to danger. I, personally, am more concerned about a possible asteroid strike than I am about a potential hazmat problem on my friendly, neighborhood railroad, terrorist-caused or not.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Never happen. All terrorists are stupid. They would NEVER think of these things on their own and they can’t read english.[:P][:-^]
Hm … that makes as much sense as believing that all of the disneyland feel good solutions of government will protect us from the bad guys.
I wonder what this measure will cost the private sector and if it will have any measurable positive result? [soapbox]
There. Now I feel better.
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Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety - Attributed to Benjamin Franklin
[banghead] Please see the following post about the rules of this forum by Bergie. It’s stuck permanently at the top of the forum, so you can’t miss it. NO POLITICS!
Ah, I was wondering who took the ‘a’ out of ‘too stupid’.
I always supected Planned Parenhood to be an Al Qaida affiliate. Never thought they’d propose ballistic implantation of IUDs, though.
Reality check time! There is no way a train can be guarded 24/7 whether it’s stopped or en route. It’s too danged big! Plus, a group or a very determined individual wouldn’t have to attack the train. They can attack the tracks. It is not hard to conceal an explosive device in all that gravel. And as to how would someone know how to do it? Geezz, I was trained how to do it almost thirty years ago! The same training would apply today.
I would think that result in lots of folks not getting pregnant. Sorry, too good to pass up!
If you hadn’t I was about to.
you’re way more likely to be killed by some idiot driving his SUV while talking on his cell phone than by any terrorist blowing up anything . think about that the next time you cross a busy street
i’m not against some saveguards to protect people , but at this point HLS is just making new rules up so they look like they’re busy
[#ditto]
-George
That’s exactly what it’s about ereimer, exactly…
Tracklayer
From what I’ve seen, homeland security couldn’t close an umbrella.
Hi Jeffrey.
They won’t just come out and tell the people of this country the real truth of the matter - which is because of our constitution and all, they really can’t impose the restrictions it would actually take to make us a lot safer, as in completely closing the borders, coast lines and air space over the US, impose all kinds of travel restrictions on people, etc. I couldn’t believe some of the stuff they came up with after 9-11 that they tried but found they couldn’t get by with because of the constitution… If HLS could have their way, none of use would be allowed to leave our homes except to go to the grocery store, doctor, school and church, but even then would have to go through all kinds of security check points and strip searches…
Tracklayer
I’ve lived in countries like that. NO THANKS!
“Those who would sacrafice freedom for security deserve neither.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
A paraphrase of a famous quotation from a speech made by Patrick Henry to the Virginia House of Burgesses at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, March 23, 1775.
Hey there, WOverdurff;
You liberals really get incensed when you get upstaged, don’t you? Yes siree Bob! You really get incensed when your ox gets gored, don’t you?
Would you like to talk about the largest illegal political contribution ever made in U.S. History. Wasn’t made to the Republicans; it was, of course, the $152,000.000.00 made to the 1996 Clinton reelection campaign by the Red Chinese? Would you like to talk about why not one penny of that was ever sent back? Or, maybe you would prefer to discuss the three and a half million dollars in cruise missiles it took to wipe out an aspirin factory thirty-one miles northwest of Khartoum, the Sudan, in 1997. We conservatives refer to actions like that as Monica Lewinsky Specials. And how, pray tell, did Newt Gingrich get associated with school buses and evacuations. That was, of course, the responsibility of that worthless mayor of New Orleans; he handled it in true Democratic style; he tried to pass the buck.
Good arguments, RT
tomikawaTT;
I-E-D, you idiot!!! Not I-U-D. I will admit, however, that I’d love to see Al-Qaida set off an IUD in a parking lot at a shopping mall!!!
That’d stop some woman from getting pregnant![:o)]