What will it take to lower the Alert Level?
 

Raised in August in direct response to the London Boiz.

Mister Chertoff announced that they were instituting these restrictions with the words: "There are [no other] known plots ..."

London Boiz foiled shortly thereafter.

Here we are dickering about saline solution for contact lenses (an Rx item in themselves) and getting all het up about 6 oz of toothpaste and 4 oz of "gel" deodorant.

Just asking ... what will it take?

Frogmarching Comrade Hawley out of TSA Headquarters and then pitching him into the Potomac.

A new dumbell set as a retirement gift would be most appropriate. :D

Does he really make these decisions himself? If he were no longer there tomorrow, everything would be completely different? That's all there is to it? :rolleyes:

He's the buffoon who claims that the x-ray helps him see explosives and he's also the jackass who touted the liquids ban and subsequent "relaxation".

It begins with him. There's plenty of room in the Potomac for any others who continue this nonsense.

Here's the deal: The threat level is a political tool. As long as the TSA and Homeland Security can make people feel scared, they can justify large budgets. As long as TSA employees search through our luggage, the TSA can make people feel like security has improved. The fact that it is largely for show is irrelevant. For many infrequent travelers, appearance is reality.

Mike

If play-"security" gives people piece of mind, I'd rather give them Xanax or Valium. It's cheaper, just as effective, and doesn't destroy my civil liberties at the expense of their insecurity and stupidity.

Short of exterminating everyone, there can be nothing that can take the "threat level" to its lowest. Even if there were only two people on the planet, at least one of them will feel threatened by the other in some way.

So how does one make the threat level lower? Get rid of the threat level and live life like it was before its introduction.

Absolute majority in the house and cngress by the GOP. ;)

-A

Now that's a cause I'd contribute to.

Mike

I was thinking of getting things back to Aug 9th levels.

Sept 10th 2001 for me, please.

bin laden in a body bag

Not enough. It would have to be all Muslim extremists exterminated, but then white, radical militiamen may become the new threat, or maybe it's 80 year old war veterans. I can't remember who's next in the pecking order. :D

1. Terrorists in US government jobs who destroy civil liberties in the name of "security".

2. All others.

I had a TSA supervisor tell me last week that "once the threat level is back to Yellow or Blue, we won't be required to remove our shoes any more" :rolleyes: