I like how the authors at Debka summed it up:
“The horrendous sight of another Western airline crashing over the US on Christmas Day 2009 was averted by a fluke and the resourcefulness of passengers and cabin crew – not by the anti-terror agencies’ high-tech gadgets, vast budgets and airport security measures.”
Now let’s look at this next posting, this time from Slashdot:
“”Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing. The regulations are a response to a suspected terrorism incident on Christmas Day.”
Further discussions that I’ve had with people on this subject suggest that the “regulations” even include small children, and definitely prevent anybody from using the lavatory. You see, now the terrorists can dick with us without actually killing or even hurting anybody. Now I’m sure that very few people on the planes nowadays have enough backbone to openly question this new policy, such as “how is this supposed to actually prevent somebody who has 80 grams of PETN from attempting to blow up this plane?” Everybody in the flight is probably just too scared that if their 2 year old child acts up, that they will end up on the no-fly list and arrested upon arrival for daring to question an authority that has obviously no logic or reason to back it up. They’d also probably be very likely to shout “terrorist” at anybody else who dares to question this authority so that they themselves will not be noticed by the authority. (The best defense is an offense no?)
I surely hope that such retarded regulations are not in place when I am on a flight. I have flown El Al multiple times, and I know what real security is like. I also know what it is like to have several places that I frequented blown up by suicide bombers – from the Purim bombing at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv to the trampiada at Tsrifin to any number of public buses. In spite of all this, I go about living my life like I normally do. I do succumb to bag checks and metal detectors at public places in Israel, but you can be sure that I would raise my doubts and demand to be allowed to take a piss if any ridiculous regulation such at this was passed in Israel. So I am here disapproving of this idea. The USA has gone back to making women drink their own breastmilk. What a very pathetic society we live in today.