Tuesday, July 14, 2009

If you're one of the people who's been harassed and threatened

by TSA for not properly acting like a peasant, you'll love this about a possible second 9/11-type strike being stopped:
The FBI immediately cast doubt on questions that the two were part of a terrorist plot or even connected to Alsaif.

“This investigation represents an isolated incident, involving only these two individuals,” the FBI press release following their arrest states.

I don’t know what’s more frightening: the fact that the FBI so readily dismissed the remarkably similar arrests as unconnected, or the fact that in the latter case, the handgun actually made it on board the aircraft and the suspects were only apprehended after another passenger reported them as engaging in suspicious behavior. The aircraft was then turned around and brought back to the gates.

Luckily, the FBI does appear to have common sense and the tone has changed. A spokesperson has said, “We don’t know if there is a connection, but we are checking it out.”

1 comment:

Windy Wilson said...

"The suspects were only apprehended after another passenger reported them as engaging in suspicious behavior."

And a very brave passenger, too. Had it been a practice run without the handgun he would be a defendant now and his name and reputation would be dragged through the media as an intolerant racist evil person.