DDZ: The shoe bomber was a white dude. If he had cut his hair he would have looked just like you or me. Yet he was willing to die to kill a bunch of people on a flight. So unfortunately your idea don't have merit.
Also with the new explosives they have out where a couple of drops could blow a hole in a plane. For that matter all someone has to do is swallow a large capsule, that could hold enough explosives to blow the plane apart. Detonation is all that is lacking. When they get hold of detonators small enough to fit into the capsule, watch out.
These items exist, and the terriorist know it. Just fortunately they have not been able to get hold of them yet. One day they will, and I hope I am not on that flight. You laugh? Before we heard about it who would have thought about a shoe bomb? Before we heard of it, or saw it in the news paper, who would have thought about the underwear bomb? Having personally seen the drug and gem smugglers use the surgical method, I have felt it was just a matter of time till it was tried with a bomb. Think back about a year to a year and a half ago. There was a youtube link on this very forum about an explosive so powerful one drop would blow up a water melon. While some said that video was a hoax, and there was debate on wheather it exist or not. Notice the hype just died, no one ever admitted or denied it exist. My view that stuff is real. May only the people that laugh and scoff be on that plane when it blows.
Sorry Richard Ried was not exactly a white dude. His father was a Jamaican immigrant of African decent. Why do you think he was willing to die to kill a bunch of people on a plane. Could it be because he was a self admitted member of al-Qaeda? With alias's like abdel rahim, abdul raheem, abu Ibrahim, and tariq raja. Nice American white guy names huh? The guy was also a possible co-conspirator on 911. His buddies claimed he was to board a fifth plane on 911 and crash it into the white house. How did a guy like this get past security? Maybe they were to busy checking out what white guys had in their shorts. Or checking 12 year old girls bras. Or maybe checking under grandma's wig.
Why can't we follow what the Israelis do? They profile and have very good success at it. I'll never buy the idea that because one so called white guy tried to blow up a plane, the TSA should body search every whit person that boards a plane. Personally I think its kind of stupid to do so. Especially since the majority of guys that try to blow planes up, are middle aged Muslim males that look like Muslims.
The big problem is, while the average white American with an American name is being detained, and given the third degree, an obvious middle eastern will stroll through unchallenged as a result of political correctness.
Gypsyman, yes I know, its very difficult for our government to use any thing that resembles common sense anymore.
So its the cool aid that causes a loss of common sense? There must be a lot of it being passed around. I'll have to be sure to stay clear of any cool aid, because common sense has gone by the wayside, and it isn't just a loss of it in our government.
