Oh, Brother!!

[ravan]

Well, now they've gone too far - the "official" word is: NO LIQUIDS OR GELS OF ANY KIND WILL BE PERMITTED IN CARRY-ON BAGGAGE. ITEMS MUST BE IN CHECKED BAGGAGE. This includes all beverages, shampoo, suntan lotion, creams, tooth paste, hair gel, and other items of similar consistency.
Well, until they stop this silliness, I won't be flying unless

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[shrikefeather]

You can't stop it.

In this, and every us vs. terrorist situation, the terrorists will Always Win.

Unless they sabotage their own plans by getting caught or doing something equally stupid.

Why? Because they have the upper hand. 100% anonymity until they ruin it for themselves. We don't know who they are. Even if you could safe guard the airlines (unlikely), what about the water supply? What about cars? If I went outside and disabled the breaks of every car on my block, which I probably could do unnoticed, who many people would I kill/injure?

What about our food?

What about our roads? How hard would it be, really, to shut down a segment of freeway?

What about college frat parties? How many aspiring students could you axe in a frat house?

What about telephone poles? Sewers? Aqueducts?

What about just plain old mass murder, emulated serial killer style?

What about sheer Visceral carnage? These guys are willing to die, why not do a crapload of pcp in a grocery store and see how many 6 year old girls you can kill by disembowelment with a quality knife before you blow yourself up? The idea is to terrorize, and killing 6 year olds might not do squat to the economy, but it'd really really screw us up as a nation. Ensure enough hate to keep this war on terror going forever, thereby siphoning considerable wealth and respect for our country away over time.

Can you prevent all this?

You need to make a choice... treat everybody like a potential terrorist, or accept that you cannot stop one fuckhead from killing a whole lot of people if he's cunning enough.

And, trust me, until he tells us who he is, you cannot. You have to hope that he screws up in planning (as these fundy idiots tend to do), or that in execution of the plan, somebody steps forward and stops him. Which may happen in a well armed, intelligent, population with something that resembled actual values... but not often in our's.

Not now that we're mostly a society of afraid cowards.

--flutter

PS: I'm still driving wherever the hell i need to go. Screw the airlines.