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2011-11-22 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 "Security phobia sweeping America" > The Lefties will be dancing in the streets, until such time our future Commie-Socialist Govt has then righteously arrested + gulagged for public Personal, Group? behavior in contrary to being a proper Socialist.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-11-22 00:24|| 2011-11-22 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 1. "that large" is being borked by the filter.

2. The text is repeated in the body.

Posted by gromky 2011-11-22 00:51|| 2011-11-22 00:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Or you say"Fuk It" and don't ship either to or from that area.

Shouldn't take too Long of being cut off to make the People wipe out your Taliban, to the last man,woman or thing.
(Or is that being redundant)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-11-22 06:36|| 2011-11-22 06:36|| Front Page Top

#4 For some reason the computer I posted that one on threw up. Post is fixed. Computer is being punished by having Windows installed on it.

Posted by Fred 2011-11-22 08:59|| 2011-11-22 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Profile profile profile!
Do the full security test if Mo's name is anywhere in the person's name.
No air freight - hell no freight - on muz origin stuff into the USA.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-11-22 09:06|| 2011-11-22 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Profiling works, and despite cries of "racism", the response is to point out that European airports use profiling, and it works. And no, limiting profiling to just "behavior" is stupid.

Profiling must be "holistic".

Second, America must reach the conclusion that the problem is Muslims, so the solution must be about Muslims. And I didn't say the solution must be with the agreement of Muslims, but enforced on them as a group.

America must say to Muslims that their beliefs *can be* a threat to our people, so ALL Muslims *must be* and *shall be* under scrutiny.

Yet this *might* be mitigated by Muslims "cleaning their own house" of those individuals who promulgate violence and extremism. They must not embrace them, support them, encourage them, or give them money or solace. Instead they must reject them, and support society by expelling them, and turning them over to the authorities as repulsive and dangerous criminals, that harm Muslims as much as non-Muslims.

A people is not stereotyped by their best and brightest, but by their worst and most repugnant. A people are appreciated by society if they encourage their children to succeed and contribute to society, and reject and expel its members that take from and offend society.

There is no racism in any of this. And if these truths are embraced, America can give up a vast amount of its paranoia and police state apparatus as unnecessary and abusive, and return to a state of freedom and liberty.

Which we lived with comfortably when faced with far worse threats.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-11-22 09:34|| 2011-11-22 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't buy this. It would be far easier to inspect each and every package than to deal with protecting against passangers. Increased security at airports has numberous effects for Al Queda such as an annoyed population who blame TSA and the ability of Muslim travelers to create scares that eventually wears us down.

If they were to target cargo planes the cost of shipping would go up $1 a package which few would notice or gripe about and if one got through it would be the loss of a small crew. Hardly the big even Al Queda tries for.

Rope-a-dope is right. I don't buy this.

On the other hand, for someone like Saddam it would have been brilliant. Cause the US to build up in Kuwait at enormous expense and then comply until we draw down. Then repeat and eventually the cost becomes so high the US would back off.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-11-22 10:14|| 2011-11-22 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Cutting off freight traffic from selected countries might be a useful tool to punish countries that overtly support terror, but it doesn't remove the threat since the potential perpetrators aren't limited to those countries.

What al-Awlaki didn't quite understand is that packages, unlike people, don't mind being a little delayed and can stand much more robust sensor probing. Yes, there are delays, costs and technical challenges involved, but those are being worked and in many cases have been solved.

Deployment takes time and money.

International agreements that allow packages to be scanned at point of origin are preferable to scanning on arrival. However, such agreements need to protect critical technologies and information re: operational limitations. Those issues, too, are being worked.

Moreover, the resulting technologies have other potential uses which may in time make the investment quite profitable for us.

We just need to outlast these sons of b1tches and not be afraid to use our strengths to defend ourselves.

Posted by lotp 2011-11-22 14:18|| 2011-11-22 14:18|| Front Page Top

#9 To bad, at least for al-Awlaki, that the United States had its own air delivery for him.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2011-11-22 15:26|| 2011-11-22 15:26|| Front Page Top

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