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Boston bombs said to be made from pressure cookers
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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.
Whoosh!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,308 posts)No doubt he loves the TSA.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,079 posts)Don't judge.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)but really good point!
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)that he doesn't plan on hiding a pressure cooker up his ass
I feel safer already.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)And military checkpoints on every corner!
Fucking morons.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Drale
(7,932 posts)Is someone trying to give a subtle hint at something? I hate myself, I'm a terrible person.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)Maybe he just wanted a free dental exam? Perhaps he has lots of cavities?
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)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.
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)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)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)And remember Colin Powell's advice to other members of the Bush Administration re oil-rich Iraq:
"If you break it, you own it."
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)his every fucking move. Typical sheep.
demwing
(16,916 posts)that don't make NO sense
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)People who occasionally commit these fucked up crimes or the brain-dead Americans clambering to give up all our freedoms as a result?
CBHagman
(16,968 posts)...matters more than his personal convenience or comfort.
On edit:
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graham4anything
(11,464 posts)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)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?