Originally Posted by studentff
And pre-mixed liquid explosives (e.g., nitroglycerine) are so notoriously unstable that in large enough quantities they would be likely to blow up in the carry-on bag well before the bad guy ever reached the plane.
So you're counting on the fact that some of them might get caught and seve *up to* seven years in prison in the EU? Or that they might blow up on the bus on the way to Heathrow - are they afraid of being called copycat by other dead terrorists?
Originally Posted by studentff
Notice the conspicuous absense of government sponsored demonstrations of the potential threat. If it were a realistic threat, don't you think they'd make a nice video of someone quickly mixing to harmless-looking flasks and then placing them next to a harmless looking cell-phone before exploding a nice simulated aircraft cabin?
God, I hope not. Can you imagine the number of d*mn fool high school students that would try to figure out how that would work?
What does amaze me is that the MSM haven't shown half a dozen ways to blow up a plane or fill it with poison gas using common household chemicals. Perhaps they have a remaining scintilla of good sense because they fly a lot?
Originally Posted by studentff
I am still not convinced that the "liquid threat" is credible outside minds of the paranoid risk-averse nervous nelies making decisions in the TSA.
Dude, if they gave you the job of risk assesment at the TSA you'd be just as nervous inside a week.
Originally Posted by studentff
And if the bad guys have someone on the inside in the airport, none of the passenger restrictions matter, because the inside guy can just give the terrorists whatever they want including much safer explosives like dynamite and C4.
Heh, "safer explosives," that was good. My wife will be horrified when I use that expression. Employee screening terrifies me, actually.
Originally Posted by studentff
TSA: reprogram your ETD machines to detect these so called explosive precursors, screen liquids/containers instead of banning them and encouraging thousands of travelers to smuggle them anyway, and let us get on with our lives!
Wonder if they have thought of that?
I've flow seveal times since the ban inside the country and my life is just fine, thanks.