Are you deliberately trying to avoid understanding what I said? Both Boston bombers where from Chechnya. Both were Muslim. Both were known to DHS, which had been warned about them by the Russians. NOTHING WAS DONE. Still, neither put a bomb on a child or other family member with the intention of blowing themselves and their family up. Neither the Fort Hood shooter, who was a known radical Muslim (and again, NOTHING was done, and the administration is calling his attack a workplace shooting, not terrorism), or Padilla (who didn't carry out any terrorist acts btw) attempted to board a plane with their their families harboring a bomb on one of their children.Cedar Park Dad wrote:VMI77 wrote:What does Boston have to do with an American family blowing themselves up with their children? How are terrorists going to get an American family to blow themselves and their children up? And how on earth is the kind of check they do going to result in anything but the supposed "terrorists" detonating themselves on the spot? I'm afraid your logic just doesn't work, since the "next" thing is walking into an airport with a suitcase bomb. What you going to do about that? Ban people from carrying luggage on a trip? The fact is, the probability of the wheelchair and grandma threat is so remote that TSA takes NO PRECAUTIONS when making these checks --it's not security, it's security theater.Cedar Park Dad wrote:Prior to Boston I would have said no American would do that.Checking the wheelchair in this case is nonsense, and based on a ridiculous assumption: that an American family traveling with a handicapped child is going to blow themselves up. Pure hooey.
If you exclude it the terrorists will use that next. However you can make a very easy, quick, and polite search.
One of the Boston bombers was an "American Family" member.
I believe the Fort Hood shooter was also a US citizen (I could be wrong there).
Wasn't Jose Padilla also a US citizen?
Women have been used as homicide bombers. Why not rig something that goes through a scanner, or firearms for a hostage situation.
If there is a weakness, if they have the power they will attempt to exploit it.
I understand the need to check, but the check itself is easily minimally invasive and consumes almost no time (same time as quick frisk as you're "frisking" the wheel chair as it were).
A woman is not a FAMILY. A Muslim woman in full garb could have a bomb strapped to her body and she wouldn't even be checked. What American female has been used as a suicide bomber? This supposed security is all theater and it's farcical theater at that.
The border with Mexico is wide open and the country is full of millions of illegals. We don't even look at foreign born Muslims when other countries warn us about them.
The authorities don't scrutinize those most likely to carry out an act of terrorism....even in their training the supposed terrorists are US citizens who want to restore the constitutional Republic.
DHS doesn't monitor mosques.
The method of checking for bombs is absurd, and would not be used if the threat was considered a real possibility. You hear of babies, the handicapped, and old ladies subjected to invasive searches. Have you heard of even one case of a Muslim woman in traditional garb being subjected to such a search?
There are many ways to attack airports besides a handicapped child in a wheelchair and NOTHING is being done about them.
There is NO WAY to completely prevent a terrorist attack, the only thing that can be done is to shift attacks from a harder to a softer target, as in Boston. So every bit of freedom you give up to the government will ultimately make you life worse and less free without providing a scintilla of security.
This government considers US to be the enemy. We're the targets of their snooping, searches, and training. "Terrorism" is a tool for imposing control on US to benefit TPTB.
