Arrest Made in Newark Airport Security Breach

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Source: Associated Press

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The man believed to have caused a security breach that resulted in major delays Sunday at Newark Liberty Airport has been arrested and will be charged with defiant trespassing.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says 28-year-old Haisong Jiang of Piscataway was taken into custody at 7:30 p.m. Friday at his home by Port Authority police. It was not immediately clear whether Jiang has retained a lawyer.

Further details were not immediately available.

On a surveillance video released Thursday by the Transportation Security Administration and the Port Authority, a man wearing a light-colored jacket ducks under a rope barrier and enters the secure area unseen by a security guard.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/08/nyregion/AP-US-Newark-Airport-Evacuation.html

[greennina]

1. Poor guy

He didn't play Bush's ridiculous and stupid TSA-game so he's going to get screwed when he has done nothing wrong.

[WolverineDG]

4. "nothing wrong"

:wtf: uh, come again? He purposefully entered an area he was not & knew that he was not entitled to enter.

dg

[Skip Intro]

7. My response as well. nt

[greennina]

8. He bought a ticket...

so he's not "entitled" to get what he paid for?

[WolverineDG]

9. His girlfriend did

He followed her into the secure area. He was not entitled to enter that area.

dg

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. If I buy a ticket to a footbal game

...that doesn't mean I'm allowed to hang around in the cheerleaders' locker room.

[WolverineDG]

17. never mind nt

[Turbineguy]

48. Did everybody else buy

a ticket to get delayed?

[TheWatcher]

16. To give his girlfriend a Goodbye Kiss.

Let's give him a Tribunal and execute him for being a terrorist.

All Hail The Police State.

[WolverineDG]

18. And millions of other people give good bye kisses in the public areas

what's so special about him that he gets to go into an area he's not allowed & fuck up thousands of peoples' travel plans?

dg

[TheWatcher]

19. Or maybe we should do away with Bush's Draconian TSA and stop our country from becoming a Police

State.

Or maybe we should all be good little boot-licking citizens and let the Police State thrive, and just live with all the consequences that come along with it.

What a cowardly, weak, soft population we have become.

This thread has the collective IQ of a breadstick.

"Just Keep Me Safe!"

[WolverineDG]

20. I think the security theater is stupid too BUT

I have more respect for my fellow travelers than to do something selfish. Sneaking into the secured area of the airport is not the same as sneaking into a movie theater. It has nothing to do with being afraid of a terrorist under my bed.

dg

[TheWatcher]

22. If you think it's stupid then stop defending it for COMPLETELY OVERREACTING

There was NO REASON to go to the extremes that they did.

Dear God, what the fuck is WRONG with people in this country?

We need to GET RID of this Draconian Bullshit, not ruin people's lives and submit to it.

It's like somebody said in a thread earlier today.

I'd rather be killed by a terrorist than live in a state of cowardice and tryanny.

You can lick all the boots you want.

There is no way I will defend this. Ever.

Jesus Christ, this thread has given me a whole new list of people to add to my ignore list.

[SpartanDem]

33. Caring that someone skipped past security= overreacting?

so the person who saw him shouldn't have cared? or personnel should've just shrugged their shoulders and said it's no big deal?

[TheWatcher]

35. NO. That's not what I said.

That's a ridiculous statement.

They could have found a way to handle it without making it the unnecessary joke of a spectacle they did.

They shut the WHOLE TERMINAL DOWN. THAT was OVERREACTING.

You know that, and if you don't, you should know better.

We need to do away with this useless, draconian Farce that is the TSA.

It isn't ABOUT "Keeping You Safe".

It never was from the beginning.

It's about getting you to submit to control. This is what tyranny IS. And if you think it's going to stop here, and not expand and KEEP expanding, you're either naive or you simply don't want to see.

And from the looks of the responses in this thread, it's working.

And it's a pathetic joke.

I am done with this conversation.

Let the "Fear Bots" have their Circle Jerk of "Keep Me Safe, I'll Go Along With Whatever OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!

Disgusting.

[WolverineDG]

44. Asshats don't get free rides because others overreact when they selfishly break the law nt

[jberryhill]

51. It's not over-reacting

A person entering the secure area could have passed an article to any other person in the gate/boarding area.

[CBHagman]

66. Accepting screening is not "tyranny."

I'm absolutely fine with having a system for screening passengers. If I buy a ticket for a flight, go to a museum, stop at the National Archives to do research or enter an office building on Capitol Hill, I expect someone to be keeping an eye on the place.

Millions of employees, tourists, travelers, et al go through screening every day in democracies around the world. You're not going to tell me putting a briefcase on a conveyor belt is the equivalent of disappearances or gulags or whatever.

[WolverineDG]

43. How are they overreacting by arresting the fuckwad

who INTENTIONALLY violated the secured area? Why should he get a free pass while thousands of others had their lives & travel plans completely fucked up?

Because, stupid or no, had this asshat NOT been so fucking SELFISH & gone into the secured area, this whole thing would not have happened.

dg

[SandWalker1984]

46. So who will make $$$ off of full body scanners? Chertoff, for one.

Who's Getting Rich From the Naked Full-Body Scanner Boom?

By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones Online. Posted January 6, 2010


Chief among them is former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems. For days after the attack, Chertoff made the rounds on the media promoting the scanners, calling the bombing attempt "a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery" -- all without disclosing his relationship to Rapiscan.

and

Former Sen. Al D’Amato, R-N.Y., represents L3 Systems, about which Bloomberg wrote today: "L-3 has ‘developed a more sophisticated system that could prevent smuggling of almost anything on the body,’ said Howard Rubel, an analyst at Jefferies & Co., who has a ‘hold’ rating on the stock."

[Doremus]

57. Thank you.

Perhaps those in charge of scripting our airport kabuki theater should think about installing cue cards on unmanned ropes for the unhip (i.e. innocent folks with better things to think about than draconian bullshit) ... ?

If nothing else it would add to the whole 'security as theater' experience, and just may give shivers of delight to the people who think signs and unmanned ropes keep them safe).

[Iowa]

26. This is what I like about DU...

Whenever a thread is filled with rigid-thinking, small-minded posts that entirely miss the big picture, someone like TheWatcher comes in and nails their sorry asses.

Thanks TheWatcher. Just knowing people like you are out there keeps me going.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[TheWatcher]

28. Thank You, Iowa.

I simply cannot believe that people are DEFENDING this shit.

I can't.

What has become of this country?

When did we become so cowardly, and so willing to submit to Draconian, tyrannical nonsense?

Why do we all of a sudden WANT to LIVE THIS WAY?

Every day this country becomes more and more like 1984.

I wonder how long it will be before we surpass it?

[Iowa]

30. I know. It's absolutely sickening...

And many who are posting on this thread are practically begging for more!

Sometimes I'm just stunned when I see the sheep-like mindset of some of the posters here. Posting rebuttals is like trying to bail out a sinking ship with a thimble.

[Lasher]

41. I'm hoping you're a sock puppet.

Surely there can't be two actual people who are this dumb.

[donco6]

42. Me too. n/t

[TheWatcher]

50. Oh LOOK, another little bobble headed Fear Bot wants to join in the fun.

"Please, just keep me safe. I will go along with whatever indignity no matter how unreasonable."

Sad to tell you, that isn't a sock puppet above.

And I have sad news for you, we're are neither dumb nor naive.

We can merely see all of this for what it is.

It's too bad the other 20 Sheep on this thread can't.

Get out of my face with your pathetic insults.

It doesn't impress me, and does nothing but emphasize your ignorance.

[WolverineDG]

55. That is not what any of us have said

but you're too obtuse to admit it, nor do you apparently have the ability to comprehend why people who think the TSA overreacted could also be glad that the asshole who started it all get arrested & held accountable for HIS actions.

dg

[Lasher]

65. You are so obsessed with your imagined TSA bogeymen you can't even understand the topic here.

Yet from this haze of willful ignorance you seem to enjoy, you proclaim you own omniscience. Once you have reached a point in an argument where you feel compelled to assert that you are not dumb or naive, you have probably already lost the debate.

I will somehow manage to struggle through the rest of my life despite the sad realization that I have failed to impress you.

[jberryhill]

69. ROFL /nt

[BeHereNow]

88. Thanks for PMing me on this one.

As the saying goes...
People get the government they deserve.

Problem is, so do the rest of us.

BHN

[saigon68]

78. Yes there is an element of Sheepery here

Its disgusting to watch Bush and Cheney bots here willing to to go with the march to tyranny.

Some of the shit done in the anti-war movement in the 60s, if done today would end up in life sentences in some federal prison.

The galling thing to me is how some here regard war criminals like betrayus as saviors of the world.

Interesting to see that skeletor chertoff stands to make millions off this latest farce.

[Bragi]

86. Hey Watcher!

I'm with you! I can't believe how security-compliant, fear-deranged Americans have become.

[Captain Hilts]

2. "Liberty" Airport???

[depakid]

12. Kafka would be right at home in 21st Century America

So would Lewis Carroll for that matter.

[Suich]

3. Self-delete. n/t

[Edweird]

5. 'defiant trespassing'... That sounds like fun.

[Skip Intro]

6. Good.

[The abyss]

10. The capture of the “kiss & run” terrorists

Well chalk one up for homeland insecurity.

[WolverineDG]

11. So you're okay with people skipping past security at the airport? nt

[The abyss]

24. I don’t see Bonnie & Clyde here.

Well – maybe in a histrionics sense.

Or as provided by the insecurity sources.

On second thought: Yep you are right.

Obviously a whole lot of danger going down here!

Kiss & run banditos must be apprehended at all costs.

[WolverineDG]

52. So you're okay with letting those who think the law doesn't apply to them

off the hook? :eyes:

dg

[The abyss]

61. Obviously you did not read the last message to which you are responding.

Clearly – I agreed! All Kiss & Run Banditos must be apprehended and punished at all cost.

Breathe easy citizen the security forces are watching ever vigilantly.

<>

Those forces will close down airports, depots & all transportation terminals to keep you safe from kissing banditos.

There – I feel so much better.

[WolverineDG]

68. You're an idiot

:eyes:

dg

[The abyss]

73. Laugh out loud.

You and your ilk sicken me beyond the pall of understanding.

Nestle warm in your blanket of insecurity.

[WolverineDG]

79. I think I'm going to cry cuz you hurted my feelings

:eyes:

Next time you have to fly somewhere, why don't you do what this asshat did & show all us sheeple how stupid we are?

dg

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. The fucker disrespected all the gillions of people who played by the rules

followed the laws and have hated every minute of it. I hope they kick his ass.

[kayla9170]

23. He caused the travelers of the Newark Airport...

Six extra hours of delay for nothing. He could have kissed his girlfriend before the security gate. At this very least, he should be required to pay a fine.

[The_Casual_Observer]

25. Jerk ass bastard.

I fly all the time, suffer hours of bullshit & this stupid asshole makes it even worse for the brothers & sisters that were having to travel that day. I hope they stuff a broom up his ass.

[truthisfreedom]

14. Can't say as I feel sorry for the guy. He wrecked a lot of other people's plans.

Selfish idiot.

[greennina]

37. He didn't wreck their plans

Or are you claiming that he forced all of those people out of the terminal? I didn't see any videos of him physically pushing a single person out of the terminal so your post is a lie. It was the TSA that forced all of those people out. They are the ones that did this horrible thing. Why claim that Bush group did do it unless you're trying to defend him?

[NashVegas]

40. His Willful Actions Caused Them To Be Wrecked

Anyone who would say otherwise needs to take their head out of their ass.

[WolverineDG]

45. If he hadn't been a FUCKING SELFISH ASSHOLE

there wouldn't have been anything to overreact about.

:eyes:

dg

[jberryhill]

53. If someone enters the gate/boarding area without inspection

Then that person can pass an article to any other person there.

Could you please explain to me, from the security video, how anyone was supposed to know what were the intentions and items carried by a person who purposefully entered through the exit of the secure area?

Thank you.

[emilyg]

21. Good.

[sharesunited]

27. How was he identified? Somebody went to a lot of trouble to make an example of him.

[greennina]

29. They probably picked him at random...

knowing Bush's TSA.

[jberryhill]

54. From the video of him going the wrong way through the exit /nt

[mainer]

85. Not according to the article

The video surveillance describes a man "who has not been found".

"On a surveillance video released Thursday by the TSA and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the guard is seen sitting at a security podium in an exit lane as passengers stream past on their way out of the terminal.

A man wearing a light-colored jacket stands inside a rope barrier, and the guard approaches the man, apparently telling him to move behind the rope.

Within a minute, the guard leaves the podium again and disappears into the crowd. A woman in a long white coat approaches the podium from inside the terminal; the man sees her and ducks under the security rope, and the two walk past, arm in arm.

The man was seen on a separate surveillance camera leaving the terminal about 20 minutes later, according to the TSA. He has not been found, and his identity remains a mystery."

[proteus_lives]

31. So he decided the rules didn't apply to him?

Fuck him. He deserved to be arrested.

[SoapBox]

32. Make him pay and then lock him up...

Make him pay for all the problems that he caused everyone and then lock his ass up.

Oh, he actually should be charged with Acts of Stooopid-ity.

[SuffertheMasses]

34. The Watcher

You almost gave me a shred of confidence that not everyone in this country had lost their mind, but then the comments that followed reaffirmed my faith in exponential stupidity.

The real issue here isn't that some retard went where he wasn't supposed to, but that the authorities shut the whole terminal down because some retard went where he wasn't supposed to.

Is anybody here old enough to remember flying before there was an excuse to put the entire country on lock-down?

Do you really feel safer?

If there was REALLY a terrorist threat, stuff would be blowing up everywhere. Oh, you think that this doesn't happen because the authorities stop it before it happens? More propaganda . . . as if they don't make the biggest scene out of every possible little thing they do in the never-ceasing "war on "terror"".

Hide in your basements, the security level is "orange".

[TheWatcher]

36. "The real issue here isn't that some retard went where he wasn't supposed to,

but that the authorities shut the whole terminal down because some retard went where he wasn't supposed to."

EXACTLY.

And that is the point, is it not?

There was NO REASON TO SHUT THE WHOLE TERMINAL DOWN. This could been handled in a way where that was not necessary.

The TSA and this whole Draconian Apparatus that has been set up in the name of fighting the Phony "War On Terror" was NEVER MEANT to "Keep Us Safe"

it's about getting you to submit to control. To Condition you to ACCEPT Control and the tyranny that comes along with it.

it's as Phony as the "War On terror" itself.

Are there real terrorists? Yes there are.

But the "War On Terror" is about as big of a joke as the other biggest joke the government ever played on us....

"The War On Drugs"

I am disgusted by the responses in this thread.

I can only hope my comments were not the ones that "reaffirmed your faith in exponential stupidity".

Because I DO NOT SUPPORT THIS.

This country is not only becoming a Police State, it's dumbed down, cowardly citizens are starting to SUPPORT it and DEMAND it.

As George Jetson once said:

"JANE!!!!! STOP THIS CRAZY THING!!!!!"

[Ineeda]

39. So, you've learned a new word this week, hmm? Draconian -lol

[TheWatcher]

49. Your pathetic attempt at an insult instead of actually addressing the content in my post tells me

one thing.

You either aren't informed enough to have the capability to have a serious discussion, or you are too ignorant, willfully or otherwise.

But then again that's what all ignorant people resort to. You can't refute facts or address issues, you just spew personal attacks like a six year old in a sand box, and drool and nod at whatever the Cathode Happy Box tells you, unquestioningly, because you can't be bothered to think for yourself.

Go back to grazing and your conditioning.

[Lasher]

76. That's a pretty accurate description.

Of your own behavior.

[Ineeda]

77. Well, aren't you the sensitive widdle poster.

Even the mildest of responses sets your hair on fire. Wahhh. (and LOL again)

[TheWatcher]

82. Aren't you an ignorant little poster.

You think living in a Police State is cute and funny.

You just love licking the jack boots that "keep you safe".

Just childish.

:eyes:

[jberryhill]

56. So, when someone goes the wrong way through the exit

You have some psychic ability to know whether they passed a weapon to someone else in the secure area.

Oh I KNOW...

Just ask him why he did it, and if he says it was to kiss his girlfriend goodbye, then everything's cool.

[TheWatcher]

62. keep defending the burgeoning Police State all you want.

Keep rationalizing, accept the conditioning, give in to the acclamation.

I simply can't believe what I am seeing here on DU.

Tell you what, you want to live in tyranny? You want to live your life like it's a page right out of 1984?

The way things are going, don't worry my "Good Little Obedient Citizen"

You're going to get the chance.

And don't any of you DARE complain or whine when it comes to pass.

It's what you wanted and asked for.

I am in NO WAY defending what this guy did.

There was NO REASON to shut down the entire terminal for this.

And that is the major point most are missing here.

You all act as if I am saying we should have no Airport Security, which is complete bullshit.

None of you seem to get it.

This security apparatus was not designed nor intended to "Keep You Safe."

It's about conditioning you to submit to control.

It's acclamation to a Police State which is implemented incrementally after each "Event" that happens, which is used to ramp it up and expand it.

Where does it end?

America has become a broken nation, with a population of broken people.

WAKE UP.

[jberryhill]

63. Going through the exit to bypass security has never been legal

...and that's pre-9/11.

I hate to interrupt your rant, but can you explain to me how security was supposed to know this person could not have passed a weapon to someone in the boarding area?

[TheWatcher]

70. No it hasn't, I never claimed it was, and that is not the point.

Again, THEY DID NOT HAVE TO SHUT DOWN AN ENTIRE TERMINAL to deal with this situation. It was a brazen overreaction and ridiculous theater. DID THE MAN BREAK THE RULES? Yes, he did. WAS HE IN THE WRONG? yes he was.

Should he face some sort of reasonable penalty, such as a fine, for an irresponsible act?

Most likely.

But arrest him, make him serve hard time, charge him as a terrorist, and even DEPORT HIM, as some idiots have called for?

Render Unto Me A FUCKING BREAK.

The man was irresponsible and foolish for behaving the way he did, especially in such an environment as we have not. He SHOULD have used better judgment, and obviously SHOULD NOT have done what he did.

The insinuations by some that I am DEFENDING this man's action's is so intellectually vacant it's a sad joke.

HOWEVER, perhaps it's time we look at how out of control this system is, and get a handle on our own out of control paranoia and reactionary foolishness.

There is NO REASON to take things to such extremes. They could have chosen a MUCH less dramatic course of action than SHUTTING DOWN AN ENTIRE TERMINAL. That man did not cause that, it's how the TSA CHOSE TO DEAL WITH IT. The situation called for action, but if you're telling me there was no other way to deal with it than shutting down an entire terminal and causing the chaos they did?

Again, PLEASE, just STOP.

And since you are simply going to ignore everything else I said, there is no point in continuing the conversation.

You are comfortable with the way things are, you think it's good, you value "safety" over anything else, and you are willing to ignore the larger picture, and the larger points that have been touched on here.

By all means, continue to be mesmerized by the Phony "War On Terror". The need for Security is valid without question, but when the apparatus that is set up for such carries a different agenda, and whose goal has NOTHING TO DO with "Keeping You Safe", but ulterior and predatory goals of Control, Conditioning, and Acclamation to a lager Police State, then that said SYSTEM does NOT serve the best interests of you, me or ANY of We the People.

And if you think this new "enhanced Screening" is where it's all going to end, you are NAIVE. Where does the line get drawn? How far are we willing to go and how much are we willing to give up for this absolutely fake and artificial "war" on a fucking NOUN, an IDEA?

At this point in our History, Franklin is correct.

We deserve neither, if this is the way we want to live.

I am absolutely AMAZED by the cowardly groupthink in this thread. It's appalling.

The Sheep can Attack me all they want.

The complete lack of respect is BEYOND mutual.

To them I say, Stop being cowardly jellyfish, and PAY ATTENTION to what is happening in your country, and where it is all ultimately going.

I'm done.

[SpartanDem]

74. They didn't have to shut the terminal down?

How do you find him and assure that he didn't transfer an item to another person? Without making everyone else go through security again, becuase it is not enough to send people out looking for him.

[jberryhill]

75. How do you KNOW such a person did not deliver a weapon?

I've asked you several times and you won't answer.

If one person gets around security, they can deliver an article to another person in the gate area.

You refuse to tell us, oh expert awake non-sheeple, how you deal with that.

It's a simple question. But you rant on and on without addressing it.

[Historic NY]

38. The big problem in the US is we don't take security seriously..

if thats not fixed we never ever will be safe. Security is for the other guy not me.

[Doremus]

58. We will never be safe!

You hear me? We will never be safe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The US doesn't take security seriously, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!


Psst! The underpants dude got on the plane in the Netherlands. But don't let me ruin a perfectly good delusion. Carry on.

[jpak]

47. The guy was a selfish dumbass who thought he was "special"

I hope they throw the book at him

[FarCenter]

59. It's a huge security risk to push all the passengers back into the unsecured terminal area

Terrorist #1 does something like what this guy did.

TSA empties all the passengers in the sterile area of the terminal back into the unsecure area.

Terrorsts # 2, 3, ... detonate suitcase and backpack bombs in the crowded unsecure terminal area.

Massive casualties.

[RamboLiberal]

60. Numbnuts Lautenberg wants this guy deported

IMHO the guy was an ahole for ducking the security rope to be with his girlfriend. Fine his butt - but deportation is way over the line.

[DainBramaged]

64. "Numbnuts Lautenberg "

:thumbsdown: I disagree with your portrayal of Mr. lautenberg, he is a finer Senator than ANY Repuke could ever be.

http://lautenberg.senate.gov/

[RamboLiberal]

71. Well on this he is numbnuts

Deportation for one moment of stupidity? Maybe we ought to kick congresscritters out for one moment of stupidity.

[LisaL]

83. The suspect is a student.

Presumably on a student visa. So US isn't his permanent place of living.

[Renew Deal]

67. That's the cost of love.

:shrug:

[Canuckistanian]

72. That'll teach him

For going under a velvet rope. These scofflaws ought to be taught a lesson.

Conform, citizen, or incur the wrath of the state.

There. I feel safer already.

[mainer]

80. Is the guy they arrested the guy in the video? Not clear!

The article is totally confusing. First they name the guy they've arrested for the incident. Then the article ends with:

"A man wearing a light-colored jacket stands inside a rope barrier, and the guard approaches the man, apparently telling him to move behind the rope.

Within a minute, the guard leaves the podium again and disappears into the crowd. A woman in a long white coat approaches the podium from inside the terminal; the man sees her and ducks under the security rope, and the two walk past, arm in arm.

The man was seen on a separate surveillance camera leaving the terminal about 20 minutes later, according to the TSA. He has not been found, and his identity remains a mystery."

So if the man's identity is a mystery, who is this guy they've arrested, and why isn't he identified as the man in the video?

[LisaL]

81. What you don't understand is that they likely updated an older article

with a couple of new paragraphs.

[mainer]

84. Then it should say "update". Instead it all flows as one article.

The editor didn't do his job.

[timtom]

87. Unbelievable responses to this event!

"Well, if he hadn't tried to help Jews escape, they wouldn't have hanged his sorry ass."

One way or the other, it's the moral obligation and duty of freedom-thinking Americans to say "NO!" to this bullshit.

I, for one, will NEVER fly again until conditions are rolled back to 1965 conditions.

I'll push a peanut with my nose first.