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Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:32 PM Apr 2013

"They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy,"

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130416/WIRE/130419677/1350?p=all&tc=pgall

Boston bombs said to be made from pressure cookers
(snip)
Across the U.S., from Washington to Los Angeles, police tightened security, monitoring landmarks, government buildings, transit hubs and sporting events. Security was especially tight in Boston, with bomb-sniffing dogs checking Amtrak passengers' luggage at South Station and transit police patrolling with rifles.

"They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy," said Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train.

Similar pressure-cooker explosives have been used in Afghanistan, India, Nepal and Pakistan, according to a July 2010 joint FBI and Homeland Security intelligence report. Also, one of the three devices used in the May 2010 Times Square attempted bombing was a pressure cooker, the intelligence report said.


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"They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy," (Original Post) Duer 157099 Apr 2013 OP
Er...okay. TwilightGardener Apr 2013 #1
What an idiot. GoneOffShore Apr 2013 #2
Dude likes cavity searches. Tommy_Carcetti Apr 2013 #3
Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Common Sense Party Apr 2013 #8
Cavity searches probably aren't necessary for a pressure cooker bomb. But I get his point. Hoyt Apr 2013 #4
LOL I didn't even think about that aspect Duer 157099 Apr 2013 #6
Well it's good to know pipi_k Apr 2013 #5
Lets have drones flying overhead, too! OnyxCollie Apr 2013 #7
Must be kinky. Lint Head Apr 2013 #9
I don't like making gay jokes but here it goes Drale Apr 2013 #10
Now now, don't jump to conclusion Duer 157099 Apr 2013 #13
Take my rights ... please! Buzz Clik Apr 2013 #11
This does bring up the question: Duer 157099 Apr 2013 #12
We have 'Good Germans' in America, too. LuvNewcastle Apr 2013 #14
As Cheney said, AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #15
Ben Franklin demwing Apr 2013 #19
Yea, Cheney and/or Napolitano undoubtedly stole it from Franklin. AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #20
Doormat Solly Mack Apr 2013 #16
I'm sure he wouldn't mind, and I bet he also would be perfectly happy to wear a camera recording quinnox Apr 2013 #17
A cavity search for a pressure cooker? demwing Apr 2013 #18
We know what was on his bookshelf as a kid Fumesucker Apr 2013 #21
Who are the terrorists whatchamacallit Apr 2013 #22
He's saying the security of the community... CBHagman Apr 2013 #23
+1 graham4anything Apr 2013 #24
Hey, if that's his kink I won't judge. Lone_Star_Dem Apr 2013 #25

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
5. Well it's good to know
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:36 PM
Apr 2013

that he doesn't plan on hiding a pressure cooker up his ass

I feel safer already.

Drale

(7,932 posts)
10. I don't like making gay jokes but here it goes
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:39 PM
Apr 2013

Is someone trying to give a subtle hint at something? I hate myself, I'm a terrible person.

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)
13. Now now, don't jump to conclusion
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:43 PM
Apr 2013

Maybe he just wanted a free dental exam? Perhaps he has lots of cavities?

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)
12. This does bring up the question:
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:42 PM
Apr 2013

Would cavity searches at the marathon have prevented this bomb?

No?

What an idiot this guy is.

Oh, maybe if everyone at the race had removed their shoes first, and had those inspected. Would that have prevented it? No? Well, then we must be doing security wrong! More security! More police! No freedoms at all!

The mentality of the fearful is astonishing and, well, scary.

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
15. As Cheney said,
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:49 PM
Apr 2013

People who are willing to give up their freedom for the illusion of security deserve neither.

Or was that Napolitano?

Have you ever seen the two of them together in the same room?

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
19. Ben Franklin
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:01 PM
Apr 2013

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/those_who_desire_to_give_up_freedom_in_order_to/12888.html

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
20. Yea, Cheney and/or Napolitano undoubtedly stole it from Franklin.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:05 PM
Apr 2013

And remember Colin Powell's advice to other members of the Bush Administration re oil-rich Iraq:

"If you break it, you own it."
 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
17. I'm sure he wouldn't mind, and I bet he also would be perfectly happy to wear a camera recording
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:59 PM
Apr 2013

his every fucking move. Typical sheep.


whatchamacallit

(15,558 posts)
22. Who are the terrorists
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:14 PM
Apr 2013

People who occasionally commit these fucked up crimes or the brain-dead Americans clambering to give up all our freedoms as a result?

 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
24. +1
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:19 PM
Apr 2013

you know what is ironic?
The people who make cases against anyone who wants national security against an actual individual enemy or terrorist enemy

are the same ones that want their guns and bullets to protect them from an invisible boogieman that doesn't exist

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
25. Hey, if that's his kink I won't judge.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:26 PM
Apr 2013

It takes all kinds and all that.

I'm still wondering how he's going to try and convince them he has a 6-liter pressure cooker hidden in one of his body cavities?

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