The Liquids Thing
Luckily, I am not flying anytime soon. I was cooking dinner last night, and listening to the news. I hadn't actually been keeping very close track on much of anything in the last few days. So I find out about the people the Brits arrested for plotting to blow up planes. The plan was to blow up the planes with liquids, which, apparently, is a threat that has been known about for years. So, now they are banning liquids on planes? Smell anything fishy here?
Further, it turns out, that when the TSA people get banned liquids, they dump them into garbage cans in the airport, or give them to homeless shelters!! Um, weren't they possibly explosives? Why take them in the first place?
I think we can safely assume this is has nothing actually to do with passenger safety, and everything to do with continuing to make people in this country afraid of something that is less likely to kill them than a lightening strike, and that we are increasing the likelihood by our actions in the Middle East. And, Bush acted fast, so he must be doing something.
Time to wake up.
technorati tags:liquid, explosives, tsa, airplanes, terrorism
Michelle, you're a bright
Michelle, you're a bright person. When did you start falling for wacky conspiracy theories?
Hmmmm. Wacky conspiracy
Hmmmm. Wacky conspiracy theory? I'm not talking conspiracy - I'm simply talking politicization of the terrorist threat - something this government's been doing for years now. And it's really, really hard to imagine that the war in Iraq, and the support of Israel's actions in Lebanon isn't making terrorist threats in this country more likely.
That's all I'm sayin'. Keith Olberman of MSNBC seems to agree with me: http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/08/14/olbermann-the-nexus-of-politics-and-terror/
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