Babies are 75% water, why are they allowed on the planes?

August 11, 2006

Regarding the terrorist plot brouhaha over in the UK recently, attentive blogger xopl points out:

“Because the plot involved taking liquid explosives aboard planes in carry-ons, passengers at all U.S. and British airports, and those boarding U.S.-bound flights at other international airports, are banned from taking any liquids onto planes.” Sir, I’m going to have to take this bottle of water away from you since it might be a liquid explosive, and I’m going to have to mix it with all of these other bottles of possibly liquid explosive, and I’m going to have to dump them all in this trash can… together. Nevermind that the plot specifically mentions mixing chemicals and/or nitroglycerin… which explodes if handled too roughly.

(via boing-boing, via xopl)

An unusually somber Ze Frank had some excellent opinions on terrorism as a whole:

As long as a small group of people can inflict mass panic across a large population, the tactic itself will remain viable. One way to deal a blow to the effectiveness of terrorism is to deal with the terror itself.

(via the show)

Terrorists don’t need to actually blow anything up so long as our elected officials persist in spreading the fear around for them, in the name of freedom. I’m glad these terrorists were stopped before they caused any deaths. But I hate that, in this “new world”, we’re all suspects. And worse, it’s accepted as the new norm, without question. You want to defeat terrorism? Quit allowing our civil liberties to be erroded because of fear.

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