Originally Posted by
JSmith1969
Really? Are you saying that there WAS a successful shoe bombing somewhere that no one noticed?
No Jim. I’m saying that there is intelligence that a shoe bomb is still considered a viable method of introducing an explosive device on to an aircraft by those wishing to do us harm. You don’t have to believe that, and I suspect you wont, but there you have it.
And yet there were no shoe bombings in the United States before August 2006, when the shoe carnival was made mandatory. Why is that, Ron? And what would a country being the US or not being the US have to do with anything, Ron? Are you suggesting that the US is the only country against which acts of terrorism could possible happen?
There was an attempt Jim. Richard Reid.
9/11 targeted US airlines, with US citizens on board, and buildings in the USA. Richard Reid targeted a US airline with US citizens on board. Bojinka targeted aircraft flying to the USA. The London Liquid Bomb plot targeted aircraft flying to the USA. Do you see a theme here jim?
It remains incontrovertibly true that you are incapable of admitting to equally incontrovertible facts about the pointlessness of TSA's mandatory shoe carnival.
Opinions vary Jim. You will note that I try to keep my opinions to myself, and only occasionally slip. You and others here prefer opinions to fact.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams (1735 - 1826)