Reply #1: What I find extremely distressing.... [View All]

[wadestock]

Is the general acceptance of "security failures"....and even today on TV people saying...hey....we were in a "mode" pre-911 that if you were hijacked, you would simply fly to a Havana or someplace safe.

Bullcrap.

The warning of terrorist threats were there and everyone was asleep at the wheel.

I got on a plane 2 weeks after 911...won't tell you details...but I had to take a LOT of food with me. Took on carry on a backpack of about 30 large beef stew cans and so forth...each had a razor sharp flip lid with them....and NOT ONE person querried anything in the backpack.

I was so completely unnerved when I went out of my way and ASKED people why they didn't care and they just looked at me stupid. It was hard to keep their attention off my boots. Now at 6'1", 250lbs and built to benchpress 325, with a beard and looking rather upset I could have been considered a likely source of concern.

Here's the thing at this point...with the election so close and our wonderful spineless representatives already missing the ball on all of this...it wouldn't make sense for them at this point to raise the flag.

Anyway...I hope if Kerry gets in....and we pick up seats and momentum....that we'll flush this type of crap out....