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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
What is absolutely confounding to me is the situation with the airplanes. These assholes have gone completely off the deep end with regard to searches and banning of items. They continue to waste enormous sums of money to make sure people who are incapable of any possible crime on an airplane are thorougly searched.
They further this behavior by thoroughly searching the same passengers, time and again, when they clearly pose no threat to the airplane. A simple background check will clearly show that I'm never going to be a person who is going to attempt to hijack an airplane.
But, absent their behavior regarding airplanes, all other avenues of entry to the US are relatively wide open. I can send a container with a nuclear warhead right into most of the cargo terminals and the chances of detection are about 2%. Does the administration tighten any of the controls on these items every time they scream "terrorist". The answer is no, they don't. And why not? Because they don't give a shit about security in this country. They simply use a show of force at the airports to remind the public that the terrorists are going to strike at any minute. This serves their interests and commands a fairly large group of the popluation to support the administration simply because there has not been another terrorist attack since 9/11.
The entire situation is rigged purely for shock value and to reinforce the fact that GWB and company is strong on terrorism and will get the job done.
Nothing can be further from the truth and I sincerely hope that the poulace will get it's proverbial head out of its ass and finally realize what's going on.
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Ryanair to sue British government for £3m
Ryanair is to sue the UK government for £3.3m for losses it says it incurred because of tighter aviation security.
Ryanair gave the government a one-week deadline to normalise the procedures introduced following the foiling of an alleged plot to bomb airliners.
Passengers are limited to taking one small piece of hand luggage, and are being subjected to frequent searches.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary called the measures "a shambles". The government said the airline had no legal grounds.
'Government failure'
The government has still failed to get UK security back to normal
Michael O'Leary, Ryanair chief executive
Dublin-based Ryanair said it would give the proceeds to charity.
"It is a shambles and a cock-up and we are giving terrorists and extremists a victory," Mr O'Leary said.
"The government has, two weeks after the events of 10 August, still failed to get UK security back to normal."
Mr O'Leary warned that the current security measures would result in delays over the Bank Holiday weekend.
The government has said it will not pay compensation or "compromise security" by easing travel restrictions until the threat level has significantly receded.
We do not believe that Ryanair have any legal grounds
Department of Transport
It said the 1982 Aviation Security Act gave it the power to implement measures for the safety and protection of the travelling public.
"We do not believe that Ryanair have any legal grounds," said a spokesman for the Department of Transport.
"We continue to face a serious security threat and we will not compromise security."
But Ryanair plans to use provisions within a separate law - the 2000 Transport Act - to seek compensation for losses incurred between 10 and 16 August.
Chaotic scenes
After details of the alleged bomb plot emerged, the government banned passengers from taking any hand luggage onto flights leaving the UK.
The measures led to chaotic scenes at Heathrow and other leading UK airports as hundreds of flights were cancelled and thousands of passengers experienced long delays.
Restrictions were eased slightly several days later but the measures have been fiercely criticised by Ryanair, BA and other carriers.
BA has said it is considering seeking compensation from airports operator BAA for failing to handle airport security efficiently during the emergency.
The security clampdown has been particularly problematic for Ryanair because it prefers to put as little luggage into plane holds as possible to ensure a quick turnaround of flights and thus maintain lower prices.
It has called for larger briefcases to be allowed as hand luggage and for the current policy of searching every second passenger passing through X-ray security to be relaxed.
The carrier has also claimed it is "nonsensical" to reduce hand luggage on outbound flights but not on inbound services.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/h...ss/5285102.stm
Published: 2006/08/25 11:41:04 GMT
Good.