The Cellar - View Single Post - TSA authorities can fine you $10,000 for leaving the airport

glatt · 11-15-2010, 08:05 AM

There were 13,531,058 commercial passenger flights in 2008. If you take that number and multiply it out over the last 8 years, when security had gotten a lot tighter since 9/11, you get about 100 million US flights since 9/11 with not a single plane taken down by terrorists.

The tightened security since 9/11 has worked. Not a single plane has come down. 100 million!

The numbers are not a compelling argument that we need these new extremely invasive security techniques.

Our founding fathers wouldn't be able to recognize us. What a bunch of pussies this country has become. We are so afraid of an infinitesimal risk of terrorism that we are willing to give up all our personal freedoms.

11-15-2010, 08:05 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	There were 13,531,058 commercial passenger flights in 2008. If you take that number and multiply it out over the last 8 years, when security had gotten a lot tighter since 9/11, you get about 100 million US flights since 9/11 with not a single plane taken down by terrorists. The tightened security since 9/11 has worked. Not a single plane has come down. 100 million! The numbers are not a compelling argument that we need these new extremely invasive security techniques. Our founding fathers wouldn't be able to recognize us. What a bunch of pussies this country has become. We are so afraid of an infinitesimal risk of terrorism that we are willing to give up all our personal freedoms.