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A young muslim-african male with no passport who is on the preliminary terrorist watch list pays cash for a single one-way ticket to a destination half way around the world and shows up for this 8000 mile 1-way trip with no checked luggage and ends up sailing right through security with a f'ing bomb sewn in his jockey shorts. Twice. He later ends up burning the crap out of his johnson trying to blow up the plane as it was nearing its final destionation. It was a complete and total screw up of the intellegence and pre-boarding screening. So how does DHS (Department of Homeland Security) react? With a whole new wave of ridiculous restrictions on passengers for international and even some domestic flights:
-Nobody can have anything on their lap for the last hour of a flight. No computer, no magazine, no blanket, no pilow.
-Nobody can use any internet or GPS capable device in the last hour.
-The entertainment systems that show a graphic representation of the plane's location on a flight will be disabled for the last hour. That means no movies on most flights for the last hour.
-Limits on carry-on luggage. You can bring one bag if you must but you have been warned they WILL go through your shit with a fine-tooth comb if it is an international flight. (Conversely, the Airlines are doing everything they can to DISCOURAGE people from checking any baggage).
And my personal favorite: -Nobody can get out of their seat for the last hour of a flight, even to use the restroom. That'll be pleasant, especially when that "last hour" turns into two and a half hours because you can't get a landing clearance for the arrival airport due to weather or other delays.
Here's a thought: None of these restrictions are going to help if the TSA and their counterparts overseeas keep letting terrorists who trip more than a half-dozen of the rather obvious red-flags get on board airplanes with no questions. WTF! Now flying will be more miserable than ever and the terrorists who should have a full body cavity search just to be able to get within a half-mile of an airport but who somehow manange to get through security for a US-bound flight with a bomb on their person without anyone batting an eye will just move up their time-table and blow the planes up right after take-off instead of shortly before they are scheduled to land.
I'm actually surprised they haven't come out and declared that everyone must take their underwear off at the screening point and run it through the X-ray machine along with their shoes.
-Nobody can have anything on their lap for the last hour of a flight. No computer, no magazine, no blanket, no pilow.
-Nobody can use any internet or GPS capable device in the last hour.
-The entertainment systems that show a graphic representation of the plane's location on a flight will be disabled for the last hour. That means no movies on most flights for the last hour.
-Limits on carry-on luggage. You can bring one bag if you must but you have been warned they WILL go through your shit with a fine-tooth comb if it is an international flight. (Conversely, the Airlines are doing everything they can to DISCOURAGE people from checking any baggage).
And my personal favorite: -Nobody can get out of their seat for the last hour of a flight, even to use the restroom. That'll be pleasant, especially when that "last hour" turns into two and a half hours because you can't get a landing clearance for the arrival airport due to weather or other delays.
Here's a thought: None of these restrictions are going to help if the TSA and their counterparts overseeas keep letting terrorists who trip more than a half-dozen of the rather obvious red-flags get on board airplanes with no questions. WTF! Now flying will be more miserable than ever and the terrorists who should have a full body cavity search just to be able to get within a half-mile of an airport but who somehow manange to get through security for a US-bound flight with a bomb on their person without anyone batting an eye will just move up their time-table and blow the planes up right after take-off instead of shortly before they are scheduled to land.
I'm actually surprised they haven't come out and declared that everyone must take their underwear off at the screening point and run it through the X-ray machine along with their shoes.
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