Comments on: Panic in Detroit: The Underwear Bomber http://the-classic-liberal.com/panic-detroit-underwear-bomber/ Libertarian & Old Right Conservative News, Politics, Economics, Opinion, Analysis. Thu, 24 May 2012 14:22:11 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: theCL http://the-classic-liberal.com/panic-detroit-underwear-bomber/comment-page-1/#comment-10221 theCL Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:27:08 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=24542#comment-10221 I'd rather just not fly. I'd rather just not fly.

]]> By: Jen http://the-classic-liberal.com/panic-detroit-underwear-bomber/comment-page-1/#comment-10217 Jen Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:27:33 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=24542#comment-10217 I'm all for expanding our freedoms instead of this mess we go through now with little effect. However, until I can fly with my gun, I'd just as soon get searched with everyone else. I'm all for expanding our freedoms instead of this mess we go through now with little effect. However, until I can fly with my gun, I'd just as soon get searched with everyone else.

]]> By: Cynical Synapse http://the-classic-liberal.com/panic-detroit-underwear-bomber/comment-page-1/#comment-10046 Cynical Synapse Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:42:09 +0000 http://the-classic-liberal.com/?p=24542#comment-10046 An excellent post. I have long been a critic of security theater. You know, like taking your shoes off or going through a metal detector to visit the USS Constitution and the Liberty Bell. In case the government hasn't noticed, terrorists don't follow the rules, so why punish ordinary citizens with little effect? Now they want to use the "nudie" scanners, but I have serious reservations that would have caught the panty bomber. An explosives detector, bomb-sniffing dog, or explosive detecting swab might have. And, like with the Fort Hood killer, the government failed to see or act on a number of red flags. We want to blame the lack of using technology in the panty bomber's case. Instead, there's an obviously disturbing trend of failing to connect the dots in all this wonderful data we're collecting in a dozen or so different systems. There's still a lack of coordination between agencies that seems little improved since 9/11. An excellent post. I have long been a critic of security theater. You know, like taking your shoes off or going through a metal detector to visit the USS Constitution and the Liberty Bell. In case the government hasn't noticed, terrorists don't follow the rules, so why punish ordinary citizens with little effect?

Now they want to use the "nudie" scanners, but I have serious reservations that would have caught the panty bomber. An explosives detector, bomb-sniffing dog, or explosive detecting swab might have.

And, like with the Fort Hood killer, the government failed to see or act on a number of red flags. We want to blame the lack of using technology in the panty bomber's case. Instead, there's an obviously disturbing trend of failing to connect the dots in all this wonderful data we're collecting in a dozen or so different systems. There's still a lack of coordination between agencies that seems little improved since 9/11.

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