Originally Posted by
VelvetJones
And this is exactly the kind of mentality the TSA and DHS love. Your point would be valid if everyone in the world had an IQ of 80, but is otherwise laughable. These were not random people entering from different destinations. These were retirees from the UK traveling on a very expensive cruise. The odds of one of them being a member of a sleeper cell, secretly plotting a suicide attack on some target in the great LA area were about as great as a giant meteor striking the continental US at the very same moment. Continuing this charade that everyone must be treated as mad bomber is becoming tiresome. If you really believe this is true then how do you leave your house on any given day? Maybe the old lady next to you at the super market is a suicide bomber, or perhaps that baby in the stroller is packed with C4. After all, if anyone entering the US is a danger, even after already being screened at their departure point, then what about the 300 million people already here that were never screen. Oh, the horror.
Without the references to peoples IQ's, you either do not have a full understanding of the US entry process, or are ignoring large parts of it because it doesn’t fit in with your agenda. You are aware that the entry process to the United States is about more that terrorism. It is about enforcing US Customs, Immigration, and Agricultural laws that have absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. It is about enforcing laws and regulations from 22 other US agencies that have nothing to do with terrorism. The traditional mission of the former US Customs Service and Immigration and Naturalization Service did not go away because of 9/11. Contrary to what you believe elderly, well to do people on a tourist cruise still have a capability to violate any number of US laws that have nothing to do with terrorism. The fact that they are elderly and well to do does not mean they are excused from the laws and requirements that apply to everyone else.
FB