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Have Airport Screeners Caught Any Terrorists

Yes, I believe there are terrorists that really want to kill as many Americans as they can, but I really don't understand why Airplanes seem to be their preferred method of mass murder - maybe it has something to do with having a captive audience, or maybe Americans traveling by plane represent everything these terrorists hate about us - "We go where we want to go, and we do what we want to do" - I swear those words inside the quotation marks sound strangely like words to a song I've heard before... I'm thinking maybe The Monkeys (Oh this is such an ugly flashback...) "Hey Hey We're the Monkeys (I think I'm going to be sick...)

But my point about the following article about the liquid and gel ban on airplanes is - "It was ridiculous from the on set, and it sounded like FEAR MONGERING to me.

Banned items fly past security
Liquids, gels getting past airport screeners
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14807713/

I wish our government officials would quit taunting the terrorists... yes... I said TAUNTING... with statements like "Why do you think there has not been another terrorists strike on American soil since 9/11? These government blowhard braggers stand there in front of the PRESS and pat each other on the back while answering their own question with "Because we're doing a Hell-of-a-job!" Er, excuse me... the only real guys working are the airport luggage screeners. JUST who are these super men and women who are keeping our sky's safe for the flying American PUBLIC...

These Airport Security Screeners and the multitude of their bosses who stand around observing them as they scan and search carry on luggage, purses, and various other bags are the same guys who were collecting unemployment just a few months ago when they lost their other high paying job.

Yep... now these glorified Airport Baggage handlers are our governments First line of defense against terrorism. Airport Baggage Screeners have POWER over the people... these guys even search each other... just as routinely as they search the rest of us.... I've watched them.

I wonder if they've adjusted those employment apptitude tests to identify those among us who would make ideal Airport Baggage Screeners.... (I'm hearing the tune "Mamas don't let your kids grow up to be Cowboys"... but instead of Cowboys it's Baggage Screeners... somebody save me, please)

Who makes sure these Baggage Screeners are washing their hands after they go to the bathroom before they go digging around in everyone's baggage?

And after they dig around in JOE BLOW'S bag, I'm not sure I want them touching my stuff without first having washed their hands.

I don't know about the rest of ya'll but the more I think about what I've seen of how these baggage security screeners at the airports perform their job the less safe I feel.

But ask yourself, how many terrorists... real terrorists have these highly trained baggage screeners caught?

I can't see an end to the necessity of having baggage screeners, but it seems like a dead end job. Can you imagine doing that for thirty years? To me, being employed as a baggage screener makes any job at Wal-Mart have more appeal.

Are there people out there who still remember what it use to be like to fly before 9/11? Things will never be like that again, and it's really sad. (and the words to the tune reverberating in my aching head now goes something like "you don't know what you have till it's gone")