The faux news put out by the government looks worse and worse on examination. Can we pour a couple of liquids together in the airplane lavatory and create an horrific explosion to bring down and airplane in flight? Apparently it is a lot more difficult that you might think. In fact, it is only the stuff of action heros and not real at all. Think about it. If this was a problem in 1995 when the last "plot" was broken up, why have the terrorists not been able to bring down a plane in the past 11 years using this method, before the liquids were banned!?
You see now don't you? There is no magic solutions instant explosive.
Maybe you never click on links to read articles, but you should read this one.
Luckily the JonBenet case came along and we don't have to think about reality for a week or two. The bushwhackers are heaving sighs of releif.
The liquid ban is totally bogus. It is fear mongering at it's worst. The only purpose of the ban is to affect as many fliers as possible in a negative way, hoping to scare them into one more Republican victory. I suspect that they have a backup plan that is related to diebold. Republicans are planning to yell "fix" at every close election that they lose.
Time to vote the bums out for good.
posted by Dr. G. @ 7:32 AM
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2 Comments:
I haven't heard anything about two magic chemicals. The bombs they had success with in the past were simply nitroglycerin (which was carried in a contact lense case in 1995) ignited by a small spark (from a battery).
It's true this hasn't succeeded in a decade, but then it was nearly a decade before they tried for the Trade Center a second time.
That said, most likely the banning of liquids is an over-reaction. If we disrupt our entire economy (80k people missed flights) it seems like they have already succeeded in terror to me.
Carter, nitro has not been a problem. Planes are not falling out of the skies. Nitro is too unstable to work for them. All this is about carrying on stable liquids which when combined can be used as an explosive. And this too is not working for them. There is no easy binary liquid explosive at this time.
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