"Shoes for industry!"
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Mon Dec 24 09:41:43 PST 2001
On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 04:45 AM, measl at mfn.org wrote:
> This just gets better and better...
>
> "Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Sunday all
> U.S. airports are required to add random shoe checks of passengers to
> the
> already established practice of random baggage checks."
>
"Shoes for industry!"
The general point is that it is going to be very difficult to stop
persons willing to die in their acts from carrying them out. Planes are
very fragile things and explosives can be formed into ordinary-looking
objects (cases of computers, coffee mugs, belt buckles, etc.) and with
very little vapor emission (smell).
Chemical timers even let bombers get away (acid eating through something
in a sealed ampoule...).
An attacker who opens an aircraft emergency door in flight could also do
a lot of damage (to the airline and travel industry, if nothing else).
Fact is, soft targets abound.
There are solutions, but not necessarily the police state measures now
unfolding. We talked about this a lot after 911.
--Tim May
"If I'm going to reach out to the the Democrats then I need a third
hand.There's no way I'm letting go of my wallet or my gun while they're
around." --attribution uncertain, possibly Gunner, on Usenet
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