{"id":8415,"date":"2005-11-23T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/11\/23\/airline-security-is-useless.html"},"modified":"2005-11-23T09:55:30","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T16:55:30","slug":"airline_securit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/23\/airline_securit.html","title":{"rendered":"Airline security is useless"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Australian Senator is taking a fair amount of heat for pointing out what most people know: many (if not most) post-911 airline security measures are worthless<\/a> against someone with motivation and imagination.<\/p>\n

“Has it ever occurred to you that you just smash your wine glass and jump at someone, grab the top of their head and put it in their carotid artery and ask anything?” Senator Vanstone told her audience of about 100 Rotarians. “And believe me, you will have their attention. I think of this every time I see more money for the security agencies.” <\/p>\n

The Immigration Minister also told of a grisly conversation with Mr Howard during a discussion on increased spending on national security. Senator Vanstone said: “I asked him if I was able to get on a plane with an HB pencil, which you are able to, and I further asked him if I went down and came and grabbed him by the front of the head and stabbed the HB pencil into your eyeball and wiggled it around down to your brain area, do you think you’d be focusing? He’s thinking, she’s gone mad again.”<\/p>\n

The Powers that Be in Australia are not amused, mate.<\/p>\n

“(Her) extraordinary outburst that airport security was a sham to make the public feel good has made a mockery of the Howard Government’s credibility in this important area of counter-terrorism,” Mr Bevis said yesterday. “And for Amanda Vanstone to once again put her foot in her mouth while John Howard is overseas for serious talks on terrorism is appalling. She should apologise and quit, or if the Prime Minister can’t shut her up he should sack her.”<\/p>\n

How dare she make us look bad by saying things that we can’t really deny but which are embarrassing to have to admit!<\/em><\/p>\n

Obviously the little kid in “The Emperor’s New Clothes” was a friend of the terrorists, too.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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