Security Theater documentary

[flyingcheesehead]

http://www.pleaseremoveyourshoesmovie.com/

Maybe now the rest of the country will wake up, just a little. Hope this gets some major-network airtime.

 

[t0r0nad0]

I wonder if it will be screened (no pun intended) in Houston any time soon - I'd love to go see it!

 

[mikea]

I hope anyone associated with the movie doesn't "want to fly today."

 

[SteveR]

I hope it gets big publicity. Creating the Homeland Security Department was one of the biggest government mistakes in the last ten years. $56 billion a year and growing, and it'll never go away (thanks Bush...what happened to Republicans being for smaller, more efficient government). In '99, the annual federal airport security budget was something like $300 million. TSA alone is over $8 billion. All this, and we still have unsophisticated individuals getting on airplanes with bombs.

 

[mikea]

We just had an actual dry run with actual terrorists from Alabama testing out using actual liquid explosives with detonators in checked luggage on actual US airliners and were spotted and passed by the TSA gate agents. They were only detained thanks to a call from Holland.

The result of this of course, is going to be to give the TSA another $10 billion and to ban passengers checking luggage and any changes of itinerary. How about if you book the flight you have to get on it. Maybe they'll put leg shackles and handcuffs on every (naked) passenger.

 

[mikegreen]

Mike,
Uh, what? Are you referring to the arrested dudes in Amsterdam?

Regards,

-Mike

 

[mikea]

Mike,
Uh, what? Are you referring to the arrested dudes in Amsterdam?

Regards,

-Mike

Yeah. Correction. Holland.

A search of Mr. Soofi by airport security screeners in Birmingham, Ala., as he waited to board a flight to Chicago on Sunday found that he was carrying $7,000 in cash and that his luggage contained a cellphone taped to a bottle of Pepto-Bismol, three cellphones taped together and several watches taped together, officials said.

“The items were not deemed to be dangerous in and of themselves,” said Amy Kudwa, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, and Mr. Soofi was permitted to fly on to Chicago.

Investigators later considered the possibility that the objects might have been part of a test run for a terrorist plot.

But Omar Sufi of Detroit, who said he was a cousin of Mr. Soofi, said his relative’s actions did not sound unusual.

He said that his cousin had most likely been trying to take medication and phones back to his family, and that it was common to bind together items meant for the same recipient. “This is our culture,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/world/europe/01plane.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Yeah. We always give our foreign cousins empty Pepto Bismol bottles.

 

[Missa]

Yeah. Correction. Holland.


Yeah. We always give our foreign cousins empty Pepto Bismol bottles.

Where did you get that the bottle was empty? It was in checked luggage so it could have been full.

 

[mikea]

Where did you get that the bottle was empty? It was in checked luggage so it could have been full.

They had a shot of the stuff on the TV news, which I'm assuming were the actual stuff. Couldda been that enough was used that it looked empty.

I'll leave open the possibility that this is another "Lackawana 6" and the dumbest air travelers in a while, but unless all of the hysterical reports were untrue, there was a lot to 'splanin to do.

The report was that they made a last minute change in planes after their luggage was checked so these bags went to DC while they went to Holland on another jet. Again that could all be bogus. We'll see.

 

[mikea]

They had a shot of the stuff on the TV news, which I'm assuming were the actual stuff. Couldda been that enough was used that it looked empty.

I'll leave open the possibility that this is another "Lackawana 6" and the dumbest air travelers in a while, but unless all of the hysterical reports were untrue, there was a lot to 'splanin to do.

The report was that they made a last minute change in planes after their luggage was checked so these bags went to DC while they went to Holland on another jet. Again that could all be bogus. We'll see.

It's been debunked. http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=1936953&spid=

I fell for it again.

Maybe they tape up the stuff to help prevent theft, like how they put merchandise in package too big to pocket easily. That wouldn't stop the TSA teefts.