Posted by Bill Fright on 01/12/31 11:55

Bill wrote:

> According to some experts, including Senate committee members
> responsible for transport safety in Canada, the new regulations are
> there to make passengers feel like the government is doing something
> useful. Tens of thousands of airline and airport workers are still able
> to put whatever they want onto a plane with absolutely minimal, if any,
> security checks. It's like the heat-detecting body scanners during the
> SARS crisis.
>
> But passengers go home and say, "Gosh honey-- I feel a lot safer flying
> now because the government took my hair gel..."
>
> When a government spokesman announced that they had known about this
> type of plot for ten years, a reporter asked why, then, the new
> regulations were only imposed in last few days, the spokesman was at a
> complete loss.
>
> You might or might not actually be safer, but let's be prudent about
> assessing the effectiveness of the government's response.
>
> Bill Farnsworth wrote:
>
>>
>
>> absolutely no problems complying with emergency conditions, that even
>> though they are at the very most an inconvenience, they are there for
>> the safety of all crew members and passengers.

It's not easy running a government with slight of hand! It's going to
take years to get the American up to speed on this fiasco!

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