Originally Posted by Djlawman
Absolutely not what he has said. He apparently said (in a closed congressional briefing, repeated then by one of the Congressmen, Peter King) that, in connection with the current plot, there was no evidence that there were any other participants in the U.S. Does that mean we should throw the gates wide open? Are these the only 23 people in the world capable of, or interested in, doing this? Of course not. It is ludicrous to take a statement like this as justification for a position that we don't need reasonable security screening in the U.S.
Even granting that there could be some other terrorist somewhere in the US hoping to exploit a threat of liquid explosives, please explain to me:
- Why this threat has been known of for over a decade, yet the TSA's knee-jerk plan shows no signs of being thought-through more than 15 minutes?
- Why we got the entire ban in one draconian swoop rather than easing in place restrictions alongside realistic security measures, like better explosives detection at checkpoints?
- Why we STILL ignore air cargo, the security of ramp and catering workers, etc., which are at least as significant of threats as this one?
And, FYI, the current water ban does not strike me (and I think I speak for many of us in saying this) as a "reasonable" security measure.