For those who ask, "What freedoms have YOU lost?"

[alicia-w]

Here's a good one:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/08/15/no.fly.babies.ap/index.html

[Janice]

We have not been hit since 9/11. Someone is doing something right.

If all these measures at airports, etc were not taken and we got hit, people would complain about the lack of security.

I feel safer today, because before that we had 9/11.

[GalvestonDuck]

We have not been hit since 9/11. Someone is doing something right.

If all these measures at airports, etc were not taken and we got hit, people would complain about the lack of security.

I feel safer today, because before that we had 9/11.

Someone may be doing something right, but is it the airport security?

How many times have we heard about something being found on a plane or about someone "forgetting" something in their carry-on luggage, which made it on one flight only to finally get discovered on a second flight? What about Richard Reid? He got by security. How about the doctors in flight who subdued him with sedatives? How'd they get the syringes past security? (Not knocking what they did though. )

How can airport security be working when they're putting people on watch lists without reason? They tag a cute blue-eyed American chick with an American name for no reason, but let an explosives-carrying, brown-eyed, bearded Muslim with sympathies towards OBL on board? (Yeah, I'm prejudiced by appearance now...so sue me. And thank Osama for helping to drill the stereotype into my brain.)

One thing I haven't heard about for a while -- locking the cockpit doors. Are they finally and definitely doing that on all flights now?

[BEER980]

ok I did not see the link but with just a web address and no title it was not easy to see either.

[alicia-w]

if you scroll up three items from your post, that's what i posted.....

[gtalum]

We have not been hit since 9/11. Someone is doing something right.

There also haven't been any tiger attacks in the US since Roy got attacked by his tiger during Siegfried and Roy's show. I attribute it to my anti-tiger rock that I bought the day afterward.

The reason we haven't had another 9/11 is only because no one has tried to replicate it here. It has nothing to do with the incompetent fools at the TSA.

[Janice]

I am not just talking about hit by planes, but hit by anything, suicide bombers, chemicals, etc.

[BEER980]

Janice just because we have not had an attack does not mean they are doing something right. They can hit us when they like and don't have a time table to go by. They are a patient people and would like to top the last one. Most of the security measures you see don't really do much but look good. They did manage to catch a guy the other day with a bomb in his carry on bag but that would have been caught 5 years ago also. You may feel safer but plenty of people don't. Our borders are wide open and that is how they are getting in. They are using Coyote's and MS13 so they say. I can only hope the next attack can be traced back to a border crossing and we can close it down. They expect 119,000 OTM's to be released this year. 85% of them never show up for their court date. There could very well be an attack on Wednesday from what a few of my sources say but who knows when the shoe will fall again.

[Brent]

There could very well be an attack on Wednesday from what a few of my sources say but who knows when the shoe will fall again.

Sources predicting when an attack will occur???

Reminds me of these people who try to predict when an earthquake will happen.

That being said, they could be right. I just think something's going to happen soon. The terror alert level was just lowered for mass transit, perfect time to hit.

[BEER980]

Actually it is more like predicting an aproaching storm then an earthquake if you want to break it down that way. Some believe there is a pattern developing to a terror attack. It seems that when there is a terror drill lately it is also a good time for an attack. Throw in the threat lowering and you got some more info for the model run. When London was attacked on 7/7 they were doing a terror drill on the same day at the same time using 1 bus and 3 train bombs. Now figure the odds on how the same trains and bus routes were the ones that were bombed at the same time the drill was going on. I think it was 10^33 or like me going to a beach and picking out a grain of sand and you going to that same beach later and picking out the same grain I picked. On 9/11 the FBI was doing a drill with planes hitting the same targets they did.
On Wednesday there is a nuke terror drill going on in SC. It is at the same base the General was just released from with the adultry excuse even though he was seperated and getting a divorce. The thinking is a false flag attack being pinned on Hamas or Hezbollah and linked back to Iran. Bush has been beating the drum hard on that one. Now I read that all Army leave after September 7 has been cancelled but I cant confirm it. I just pass it along and most of the time I am wrong. Lets hope the pattern does not continue. I will be fishing so keep your eyes open for strange activity.

[Brent]

During some times when I've been sitting here with nothing to do... I've been trying to figure out patterns to the attack dates to see if I could figure something out that made sense.

3/11/04 Madrid, 7/7 and 7/21 London, all on Thursday.

That's about all I've come up with so far... also, wasn't there another tape from Al-Qaeda in the last couple of weeks since the Egypt bombings??? The last 9 or 10 times that has happened there's been an attack somewhere(all overseas so far) within a few weeks...

Also... this summer is the same situation as 2001, in that, it's one that immediately follows a Presidential Election.