Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much
Bart -- Agree 100%. I can't help thinking that this baggie thing is like what happened in WWII. The government invented all sorts of ways for the civilian population who weren't in the military to "do their part" and "participate" in the war effort. There were initiatives like women not wearing nylons in order to make parachutes, dismantling wrought iron fences to be melted down and turned into tanks, etc. Hindsight reveals that very little of this had any military utility other than to assure that the civilian population bought into the war effort.
If the government(TSA) is trying to engage people in a positive way, they should comeup with some logical plan to do so. Things you have mentioned
may have looked useless/stupid in the hind site, but what we are going through is just plain stupid to begin with.
I think people are already doing their part. Like the shoe bomber incident..
and the united flight on 9/11/01 and countless other incidents
when passengers
stepped in to stop some out-of control passenger from disrupting the flight.
the shoe carnival, the liquid ban and the quart bag and 3oz container makes
absolutely no sense. Rules are not consistent and they cannot be enforced.
If they come up with a ban, they should be able to enforce them... else not
have them at all.