The Anonymous Widower

Two Protests Against Airport Security

There are now two web-sites in the United States protesting about obsessive security at airports by staging protests over Thankgiving.

They are :-

1. OptOutDay.com
2. WeWontFly.com

It would appear that the protesters have a point, but what is going to happen on that day if several burqa’ed women turn up and just walk straight through the scanners without a protest, whilst a group of red-blooded American males are refusing to pass.

But isn’t it a case of too little too late?  If the United States had had some minimal security in place ten years ago, then the terrible attacks of September 11th, 2001, would not have been so catastrophic.

The terrorists were given an immense victory by American incompetence and do you wonder that they keep trying.

The United States has suffered masses of hijacks since the 1960s by Cubans and others and surely they should have taken steps to prevent them then! Or am I being simplistic? But compare the number of hijacks there has been in Europe over a similar timescale!

So tell me, why is it, Irish terrorists have never succeeded in hijacking an airliner?

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November 19, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Flying, Terrorism, United States