Comments on: GAO: Bomb Parts Snuck Past Airport Checks

Investigators Got Through Passenger Checkpoints With IED Components

[lel2007-2009]

I think PROFILING would go a long way in narrowing the field of possible TERRORISTS.

[meatpieandta]

At what point do we throw the investigators in jail for smuggling bomb parts? The TSA are so busy stealing shampoo, skin cream and tooth paste how can they focus on bomb parts?

[hdpataxia]

Though a report like this ought best be an internal TSA circular, I''m sure the terrorists were already aware of our security shortcomings; so why encourage them to give the administration more ammo for a continued war on terror? Instead of supporting terrorist intelligence requirements at home, couldn''t the media just stick to betraying troop movements in Iraq?

[glaswolf]

In the end, it will be some few passengers or few personnel who act as in flight 93. Afer the wall fell, I was told by a Soviet academic that the reason they never did anything in the contiguous 48 is that they thought anyone on the street could kill them. Think about, the reason they didn''t just shoot or blow people up was because they believed all those stories about violent American Yanquis blasting folks away. My father thought everyone should carry guns, ie be armed, and it would be peaceful. Our enemies are afraid of being killed by our martial street people. Consider a Terrorist standing next to a Crip in Regalia, the Terrorist starts his movement to damage next to a guy conscious that his life is fleeting, unless he is quick and deadly in his recognition of danger and quashing it. Chicanos and Crips live in different Universes of Awareness, we are not aware of them in our environments, they retire among us as peaceful people. Yet I dare say I would expect that Crip to demonstrate by actions an American nationalisma and pride any Terrorist would prefer to never encounter. Our "Bad Guys" keep our "Good Guys" safe in reality.

[glaswolf]

One checker complained about the lack of variation in training material. I thought the way education worked was you are introduced to how to relate to a subject and then you study and ponder as an act of interest and not as a Pavlovian Response to the sound of coins rolling in the gutters of reality''s intent. The first requirement should be a driving interest to study relevant possibility and resolution. Internet is an extensive mental space accessible to all most everyone in TSA. Anyone familiar with grain silos has observed the raw power of aerosols. The problem is not to remain ignorant, the problem is to know what to fight immediately to prevent implementation ... someone has to take damage as it were, someone must act.

[samrensho]

What kind of performance can one expect from the minimum wage benthic organisms employed as airport screeners. I''m more concerned about them ripping me off than I am about terrorist acts.

[megaprophet]

YOU''RE A FROG IN A POT
My fellow Americans need to open their eyes to the fact that our Republic, along with The Constitution upon which it was founded, is being flushed-down the toilet by our nations'' bought and paid for politicians and media. While the Oligarchs warn and incite fear in the sheeple about the prospect of terrorism, they at the same time leave our borders wide open, and then conduct illegal wars overseas that do nothing but incite the terrorism which their Orwellian Laws like the Patriot Act and the John Warner Defense Authorization Act pretend to protect us from. Wake up America! It''s not about protecting you from terrorism, or Global Warming, or any of that other fear-mongering garbage the sold-out, mainstream media feeds you 24/7. It''s about feeding the bankers and the military industrial complex, and facilitating the global elite''s ability to ratchet-down control over the American people, placing us into a total control grid where they can surveille, track and control everywhere we go and everything we do. It''s the groundwork for tyranny. It''s the New World Order plan of Bush, Clinton, Edwards, McCain, Giuliani, et.al., being executed quite beautifully. You''re a frog in a pot: In order to cook a frog, you don''t throw him into a pot of boiling water. If you do, he''ll resist and jump-out. What you do instead is, you turn the heat-up REAL SLOW, and by the time the water is boiling, he won''t be able to jump out anymore, because it''s too late--he''s already doomed.

[megaprophet]

CBS NEWS CONDUCTING RIGGED POLLS
Most people can see right through the prejudice CBS News obviously has towards Ron Paul. In the few times they''ve covered him at all, I''m suprised they didn''t have one of their graphics artists Photoshop some devil horns on top of his head in that worst ever photograph they always use of him. CBS obviously thinks that if they pretend Paul isn''t a top-tier GOP candidate, then their readers and viewers will eventually think so too. Whenever they are forced to do a story on Paul, because some other mainstream source is covering him for some reason, the fact that their editors work overtime to slant their stories in such a way as to either marginalize his accomplishment, or present Paul in the most negative light possible, is obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence. "What about their polls?," you ask? As far as the CBS News poll is concerned, they don''t even include Paul on the list of GOP candidates which pollees can choose from, and then afterwards, report to you that Paul doesn''t even rank in their final tally. Ron Paul is getting major grass roots support nationwide. He has over 62,380 meetup group members in 1,175 Groups from 1,004 cities nationwide, with another 7,197 people more folks just waiting to hear when a new meetup group will start-up near them. He''s won ALL of the viewer phone-in polls in ALL of the GOP debates he''s been in, and has raised more money ($4.2 million) in one day than any other GOP candidate ever. Go Ron Go!

[megaprophet]

POLLSTERS ARTIFICIALLY SKEWING RESULTS
Ron Paul breaks fundraising records, wins phone-in and Internet polls, yet why are his national poll numbers so low? A Zogby pollee recently revealed what happened to him when he took part in their national, 2008 presidential election poll. Upon confirming Ron Paul as his choice for President, the poll then branched out into a myriad of bizarre and intrusive questions which would discourage most people from completing the process, and thereby making their vote for Ron Paul null and void. "The first part of the poll was about which candidate one prefers, with candidates from both parties being available as choices. Great! However, after I finished answering positively for Ron Paul, the poll got very interesting," he writes. "As anyone who is familiar with how polls work is aware, polls are branching in their structure. Answers you give to one section of the poll will determine what questions you will receive in the next section of the poll." The pollee then relates his confusion about the fact that the poll threw up 20 questions about cooking rice before another extensive set of questions regarding personal sexual behavior. "This went on for a number of pages and was rather intrusive," he said. "It dealt with sexual positions, sexual fantasies, sexual preferences and similar intimate subjects. Of course neither rice cooking or sexual behavior have anything to do with presidential elections or politics in general. Or at least it shouldn''t!"

[megaprophet]

WERE HAVING A TEA PARTY! YOU''RE INVITED
As we all know, freedom isn''t free in this country. Therefore, in the wake of our successful fundraising event of November 5th, in which we all came together to raise $4.2 million dollars for Ron Paul''s campaign, we''ve set yet another date for an even bigger fundraiser. This one will take place during on December 16th: a very important date for people who love freedom and hate tyranny to ring the Liberty Bell, and let our sold-out, globalist, political ****** and their mainstream media enablers know that good Americans are mad as hell, and that we''re not going to take it anymore. December 16th is the 224th aniversary of The Boston Tea Party: an act of protest by the American colonists against the tyranny of Great Britain where the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped crates of tea overboard into Boston Harbor. It was a key event which helped to spark the American Revolution, and we hope this event will, likewise, add additional spark to our own 21st Century political revolution to restore peace, prosperity and freedom to our Republic by helping elect a President whose record of adherance to The Constitution is unmatched by anyone in American politics. Please join us this December 16th for the largest one-day political donation event in history. Our goal is to bring together 100,000 people to donate $100 each, creating a one day donation total of $10,000,000. The time to act is now. The time for Ron Paul is NOW! TeaParty07.com

[famulla-2009]

Sir
Why do we leave the NASA going to moon? There is no water. Tackle this first. Alternatively, do we still hope to find water in moon and Mars after the global warming has devoured the mother earth by the emissions and the terrorists? No, I do not ask because I am in the Dark Continent trying to wake but I also see the French transport on strike that has crippled many travelers. With this, new technicians promised to come in future; we are paying with the sweat and money now.
I thank you
Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD
P.O.Box 6044
Dar-Es-Salaam
Tanzania
East Africa

[jetranger7]

NO Different than all the ILLEGALS sneaking across the border somewhere, bringing with them who knows what or how much !!! Till we get serious about protection for our country, this lip service we''ve been getting from our elected leaders, nothings going to change much !!

[nikkel_j]

I tip my hat to CBS.

Once again, you''ve done a great job of letting our enemies know our weak spots.

If you really want to help:
Step 1) Do your investigation.
Step 2) Make your knowledge know to the proper authorities.
Step 3) Publish a story about the fact that you found gaping holes. Do not broadcast to the world specifics of said holes, but offer to make the info available through a series of gates.
Step 4) Wash, rinse, repeat.

I fly a lot. You are making me feel less safe.

[nikkel_j]

I tip my hat to CBS.

Once again, you''ve done a great job of letting our enemies know our weak spots.

If you really want to help:
Step 1) Do your investigation.
Step 2) Make your knowledge know to the proper authorities.
Step 3) Publish a story about the fact that you found gaping holes. Do not broadcast to the world specifics of said holes, but offer to make the info available through a series of gates.
Step 4) Wash, rinse, repeat.

I fly a lot. You are making me feel less safe.

[tdryther]

This happens every year. Someone sneaks bomb parts or fake bomb parts past the security guards, just to prove that it can be done. They don''t supply the proper chemical analytical equipment at the airports to find all the threats anyway. Until they do, security there will not be secure.

Isn''t TSA part of the Department of Homeland Security anyway? That department was created by congress after 911 based on fear of another attack. They are not much better than the old security system. They also sit around parking lots and guard unmarked Fema sites.

They worry about someone taking a picture of the decal on their truck that says "Homeland Security" on it instead of neutralizing real threats. I was run through the 20 questions for taking a picture where Homeland Security has no business anyway. All because I bruised the ego of some security schmuck that works for them. They pay them good money to stand around and do nothing. At least the TSA people have to do something to earn their money. Homeland Security is a bad joke. Even the name of the department is stupid. What happened to the Coast Guard and the National Guard? Oh wait a minute, they are all in Iraq now. Wasting our money.

[tdryther]

This happens every year. Someone sneaks bomb parts or fake bomb parts past the security guards, just to prove that it can be done. They don''t supply the proper chemical analytical equipment at the airports to find all the threats anyway. Until they do, security there will not be secure.

Isn''t TSA part of the Department of Homeland Security anyway? That department was created by congress after 911 based on fear of another attack. They are not much better than the old security system. They also sit around parking lots and guard unmarked Fema sites.

They worry about someone taking a picture of the decal on their truck that says "Homeland Security" on it instead of neutralizing real threats. I was run through the 20 questions for taking a picture where Homeland Security has no business anyway. All because I bruised the ego of some security schmuck that works for them. They pay them good money to stand around and do nothing. At least the TSA people have to do something to earn their money. Homeland Security is a bad joke. Even the name of the department is stupid. What happened to the Coast Guard and the National Guard? Oh wait a minute, they are all in Iraq now. Wasting our money.

[nikkel_j]

I tip my hat to CBS.

Once again, you''ve done a great job of letting our enemies know our weak spots.

If you really want to help:
Step 1) Do your investigation.
Step 2) Make your knowledge know to the proper authorities.
Step 3) Publish a story about the fact that you found gaping holes. Do not broadcast to the world specifics of said holes, but offer to make the info available through a series of gates.
Step 4) Wash, rinse, repeat.

I fly a lot. You are making me feel less safe.

[andor3]

"When have you ever gone into a government office and seen anyone working hard?"

Often. Most people do not get access to government offices. The idea that government is bloated and inefficient is a lie planted by those who want to destroy our power to regulate big corporations by getting people to slash their own throats--convincing them to weaken the only protection they have.

As for government workers--ever see the moon landings? images from Mars? get a social security check? use the Internet? use a calculator or computer? drive on an interstate highway? watch "Sesame Street" or "NOVA"? Wonder who developed those cool technologies on C.S.I.? All governement projects. The governement can do great things when properly funded and allowed to thrive.

Government workers are not all the best and brightest, but many are-- and they are there because of love or dedication, because we don''t pay them so well.

"...wait until Hillary trys to put the government in charge of your health care!!"

Yes! I think we all know that will be a big improvement over letting private companies make health care decisions based on the bottom line and not patient health.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by privatize

Obviously you are just kidding, so then we put up with corruption, kickbacks and slacking? Even worse security, because there is no accountability.

I can see it now, "Blackwater security, get shot for your cup o noodles" Or "Enron Security", or "Arbusto Security", or "Merril Lynch Security".

No security is better than that.

[brianbwb-2009]

to MegaProphet

No.

No more Republicans,

Period.

Even those who pretend to be Republicans.

And spamming multiple topics won''''t help either.