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Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#31
The real travesty here is that "General Aviation" flights (private aircraft) face no such TSA screening as we see in "Commercial Aviation" flight terminals.

So anyone who has the money to charter a private jet is also able to carry whatever they want onto an aircraft, which illustrates the double standard inherent in most tyrannical systems.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#33

> All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats. The threats that the TSA itself admits are non-existent? ( http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/tsa-admits-... ) The best I can see coming of this is that the TSA will start to ban braided leather belts and condoms.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start putting severe limits on all non-food shops in the terminals now. There seems to be no end to the ridiculous measures they'll take, no matter the inconvenience to flyers.

No, that's not the point. If you ever been through checkpoints enough times you will see TSA agents going back and forth skipping detectors all the time. If any of them can not smuggle hazardous stuff then we are living in a word where no cop is a bad cop.

Its all a show and unfortunately past examples shows that those who try to terror or did terror an airplane were either working with, willingly or not, the FBI/CIA or other gov agencies. And why wouldn't they? You take a mentally ill men, drug him big time, tell him government is bad and then you "catch" him on the plane with bomb behind his waist. Result? Another billion bucks spent on "terrorism" and Chertoff making $300MM on his radiation scanners.

So long story short; no, they are not interested in messing around with airport smallbusiness shops, even if this would stop a terrorist attack, because their mission is not to prevent one, but rather get american people used to deep searches, submission on demand and checkpoints everywhere.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#34
post #5

The BLUNDERBUSSness Class is by far the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsem22DkIjw TL;DR: AXE body spray is super combustable!

I love how he takes great pains to emphasize that it's "reloadable" and "break action" but when he fires it it just explodes.

it's actually sitting right here beside my desk. completely functional. ;)

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#36
This is simultaneously an excellent hack, culture jam and an expose of the security theater that is the TSA.

There was also the people who were successfully able to get through with decoy explosives without a hitch, but this is much more whimsical.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#37
post #31

The real travesty here is that "General Aviation" flights (private aircraft) face no such TSA screening as we see in "Commercial Aviation" flight terminals. So anyone who has the money to charter a private jet is also able to carry whatever they want onto an aircraft, which illustrates the double standard inherent in most tyrannical systems.

Onto any aircraft?

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#38
post #31

The real travesty here is that "General Aviation" flights (private aircraft) face no such TSA screening as we see in "Commercial Aviation" flight terminals. So anyone who has the money to charter a private jet is also able to carry whatever they want onto an aircraft, which illustrates the double standard inherent in most tyrannical systems.

have no fear - our theater is 100% reactionary. when an attack like this is carried out then we'll put in onerous theater procedures to slow things down there as well.

Then... we'll wait for an attack on sea vessels. After people die that way, we'll put more security theater there, without ever reducing or removing the decade+ old theater imposed in other areas.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how he takes great pains to emphasize that it's "reloadable" and "break action" but when he fires it it just explodes.

it's actually sitting right here beside my desk. completely functional. ;)

Wow, it definitely looked like the person holding it would have been maimed.

Re: Terminal Cornucopia

#40
While this is all interesting, none of these videos show any actual lethal potential. I'm not saying that there is any, but there is no target and no way to show whether these tools inflict any meaningful damage.
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