XPost: alt.security.terrorism   
      
   	When  I left laGuardia  in NYC,  they had  me swing  each foot   
   through the regular  metal detector to be sure my  shoes had no metal,   
   then my belt buckle to prove it was what set the thing off. On the way   
   back, at  some small town  airport, they had  a gadget on which  I put   
   each  foot  and  when  it  detected  metal  in  my  shoes  (apparently   
   undetected at LGA) and i had to take off my shoes to get them x-rayed.   
      
   	This  doesn't  make  sence.  As  an engineer  I  am  aware  of   
   steel-toe construction  shoes. But  the guy who  tried to make  a shoe   
   bomb, I can't imagine that bomb was  made of metal. So how the heck is   
   checking for metal in people's shoes gonna prevent shoe-bombs?   
      
   	Furthermore, I  hate to admit I  know how I can  poke the wire   
   from my  eyeglasses into someone's ear,  eye or nose and  kill them or   
   make them unconscious. (I'm  a bioengineer, unfortunately, I know such   
   things. Moreover, I  think I also read them  in the Anarchist_Cookbook   
   my  HS Chemistry  teacher passed  around the  class a  quarter century   
   ago.) So are we gonna demand all eyeglsses (and coins) be plastic?   
      
   	Personally,  I think  if enough  9/11 passengers  had personal   
   firearms, none of this wudda happened. Cowards encourage terrorism, if   
   we had no cowards in our  midsts, the terrorists would have nothing on   
   us. And  by the way, annoy  the pinkos further by  telling them "urban   
   sprawl prevents terrorism!"   
      
      
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       Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia'81+, Bio$trategist   
          http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm   
     ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed.}---   
      
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