Passage of the Day

by Will Wilkinson on December 30, 2009

When the Federal Government mans every checkpoint with a levitating ascended master whose great googly third eye pierces all the etherial layers of the transdimensional mutliverse, you can be sure that some clever bomber will find a loophole in the eighteenth dimension to scurry through. And it will still be very difficult to blow up an airplane.

From the IOZ, who is proud of his abs.

pithlord

Are you going to do anything abou the fact that Cato's point man on the constitution, Roger Pilon, (a) wants to suspend said document until the "war on terror" is won, and (b) has decided that this cannot happen until terrorist attacks are impossible and intelligence failures never happen? The Cato Institute can't get Carl Schmitt or John Yoo?

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/01/

Eric Auld

"Ron Paul's Ideas Getting Serious Attention" http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ron-paul2...

For better or worse, I think this claim is false. Thoughts?

Craig McGillivary

THe thugs at TSA insisted on doing a random baggage check on me on Sunday. I didn't make any trouble, but its hard to see the use of carefully removing the items in one out of five passenger bags. If you want to spy on people and invade their privacy that makes sense, but it can't stop terrorism. Anyway I think we should abolish airline security and just make the pilot seat impossible for passengers to take over. Blowing up airplanes isn't a problem in the way that using them as missles is.

Tom

"Blowing up airplanes isn't a problem in the way that using them as missles is."

Are you suggesting that it isn't a problem because it wouldn't happen much or because downing a few jumbo jets full of human cargo is isn't a big deal?

James K

If i can get a little sci-fi for a moment, gene-sympathetic controls or entirely automated aircraft would both be extremely helpful here.

Michael Drake

And ass.

lhhunt

Terror alarmist (and Obama voter) Ann Althouse blogged that it was "just luck" the bomber didn't succeed. I think it would have taken a lot of luck (his, not ours) if he had.

Ultimately, though, the only way to be really secure against this stuff is to get another foreign policy. I don't see a lot of Swiss planes getting bombed.