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Your joking right?
May as well say that the terrorist have won right now and be done with it. They are restricting our free lifestyle. People are scared to travel and do normal everyday things they did in years gone by. Let them go i say. Blow a few planes up and cause chaos and destruction. Kill a heap of people but you can never take away the spirit of those people. Life does go on. If they see that it doesnt work what they are doing they will soon stop.
Matt
Matt,
I believe that Al-Qaeda's intent was to cause economic disruption and each and every person who boards a plane now pays for the knee-jerk reactions of those that impose security theater.
I once was at the final boarding terminal booth getting a seat changed and I was making small talk with the woman and I mentioned it was "...a waste of time for the security people to check an Apple laptop computer for explosives because no Apple user would ever blow up an Apple laptop."
The point of the joke being Apple laptop owners are so protective of such a coveted computer that even a dedicated terrorist would not cross the line of harming an Apple computer.
Nowhere in that is the type of joke that could be construed as inappropriate and crossing the line in a hyper-sensitive scenario, but you guessed it, she almost came apart at the seams.
The only airline that has any meaningful security are the Isreali's who in defense of their citizens engage in profiling.
The opening post sign is real.
"They that would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin, United States Founding Father
Zero,
I could not disagree more! To mockingly joke or reference illegal or illicit behavior in front of the very individuals charged with the protection of you and your fellow passengers is just juvenile. I have witnessed an individual joke about having illegal items, and the local authority search every article in his (and his parties) possessions. Note: lest you think the Yanks have lost all sense of humor, this was in a third world country. We walk into a airport/train,etc. terminal, EXPECTING to be safe, and when the unthinkable becomes fact, look about and and demand accountability from those charged with our security.
We live in world where our very existance is reason enough for another to seek to eliminate it. Intolerance has become common place. A little restraint is not an unreasonable expectation.
In October 2001 i was on a plane back from The Solomons when on final approach the young guy next to me that had been quiet the whole flight bumped my shoulder and says excuse me, while reaching into his pocket and pulling out a pocket knife, what should i do with this? Before boarding this same flight i was pulled up at the xray booth and told to show the contents of my carry on bag. They had seen a film canister in it that id put all my 20 cent coins to stop them rattling around. They made me open it and pull all the coins out then let me put them back and on my way. The whole point is the security arent going to stop someone that is determined to get something on a plane. Ceramic knives are available and undectable to just about everything but a pat down. Chemicals are available that can be turned explosive as they pass through your digestive system. Some nut case with enough money could even charter or hire a plane if they wanted. Where does it all end?
I might not agree with what you say but id fight to the death for the right for you to say it.
Matt
These signs have been around for a number of years. If a person is stupid enough to joke about bombs or blowing up a plane, I don't want them on my flight anyway...
And should he charter his own plane, he takes himself and whom ever he brings on the plane with him. That would include the flight crew, if the aircraft was large enough. That, is not really part of this issue.
Freedom of speech is another matter all together. It's purpose is to allow others to critical of the sitting goverment, with out the fear of reprisal. For an individual to make a threat, in jest or not, is not exercising free speech. It is rather, demonstrating irrational speech or just stupidity. Endangering anothers life is not our right or privilege.