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JoeyT

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10. If they were concerned with security, they'd be

Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Mon Aug 13, 2012, 08:50 PM

Aug 2012

giving him a medal instead of charging him. After all, they now know there was a hole a terrorist could have gotten through without anyone getting hurt.

Of course they're not concerned with security, they're concerned with using the illusion of security to grab assloads of money, and people wandering through high end systems without actually trying to sneak in kind of ruptures that.

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JFK security is breached by man who swam ashore [View all] bemildred Aug 2012 OP

Whoa, just like Darryl Hannah did with Statue of Liberty security back in the 80s Bucky Aug 2012 #1

First they came for the Mer people..... DeSwiss Aug 2012 #7

I have that happen in a novel I wrote only it was off a ship. nt valerief Aug 2012 #2

Did he swim back from the Olympics? liberal N proud Aug 2012 #3

He walked across two runways! Pilotguy Aug 2012 #4

Yes, I am impressed. bemildred Aug 2012 #6

Just imagine the damage he could have done. OMG! Incitatus Aug 2012 #20

When I hear phrases sulphurdunn Aug 2012 #5

+1 Blue_Tires Aug 2012 #22

And yet Paul Ryan has elder-security..... DeSwiss Aug 2012 #8

Yep. At the Boston airport, I didn't remove a thin belt that had NEVER set off security before but spooky3 Aug 2012 #12

This man was charged because the airport's security system did not work, not because 1monster Aug 2012 #9

Yes, that is what he was supposed to do. ManiacJoe Aug 2012 #16

No. The security system was supposed to work. Had it, he would not have need to climb the 1monster Aug 2012 #17

Exactly! blackspade Aug 2012 #19

If they were concerned with security, they'd be JoeyT Aug 2012 #10

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner. Scuba Aug 2012 #21

All I have to say is, Athena66 Aug 2012 #11

Airports are Massive Moran1D4 Aug 2012 #13

Well, if that's true, and that jumpers would escape any detection routinely, spooky3 Aug 2012 #14

Exactly Athena66 Aug 2012 #15

Oh, heck. This is nothing new. SheilaT Aug 2012 #18

Just goes to show that the TSA and HLS is nothing more than Javaman Aug 2012 #23