Originally Posted by
Schmurrr
My first thought on reading this was, "He should've known better than to joke about bombs at the airport."
Then I remembered how much I hate having to be civil when I'm getting groped--how fear of retaliation keeps me from speaking out against it as forcefully as I would like. TSA is attempting to quash my freedom of speech, and that angers me! I am angry on Mr. Friesema's behalf, too. What does it matter if he says the word "bomb" in an airport? As long as he's not bringing a bomb on board, what harm does it do to say that word? There was more harm in the terminal dump than in him saying "bomb." Also, would there have been a terminal dump if he'd suggested his friend's bag had "something illegal" or "a surprise" in it? I want to go to an airport now and just chant "bomb" over and over until it loses its power.
Now yelling "bomb" is a different story.
Not to give al Qaeda any ideas, but they don't even have to bring a bomb to an airport. All they need to do to so as to disrupt the entire air traffic system is send 20 operatives to strategically chosen airports and have each utter the word "bomb" at some point within the space of an hour.
Due to the insane reactive policy of our security theater actors, they can practically make the skies over America resemble how they were on 9/12/01 - empty.
(My conscience is salved by the fact that if AQ has a brain cell working, they have already considered this strategy).