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themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1478
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 4:42 pm: | 
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In case you are wondering, you can drive a white rental van through the Lincoln and Midtown tunnel, and then back again the other way as a single male driver, and not attract even a glance from any law enforcement agent with 50 feet of your car. Not even racial profiling. I was surprised. This was a big cargo van with no side windows. |
musicme
Citizen
Username: Musicme
Post Number: 971
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 8:47 am: |
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Terrorist Handbook, page 2
Things to do:
Rent White Van
Buy Paint
Shave
Bleach hair |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1483
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 10:06 am: |
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It's not even like I'm blond or anything. From 100 feet, I could be anybody. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1484
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 10:11 am: |
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By the way - as Tim McVeigh (sp?) prooves, terrorists can be all-American types. |
Strawberry Alarm Clock
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 4537
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 10:50 am: |
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sooo...you want racial profiling? |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1487
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 1:33 pm: |
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No, stoop, but I assumed it was the defacto operation at security points. My point is there wasn't even a level of scrutiny sufficient for the cops to determine I was not of interest. I could have been satan with dynamite strapped to my head. This isn't a political point, but I was a little surprised. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5553
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 3:46 pm: |
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It's better this way, themp. Truly effective security at checkpoints would be much too intrusive. And they would be enormously inconvenient to absolutely everyone. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 1500
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 4:49 pm: |
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I don't disagree. Walk around Grand Central and think what someone could do. We live in an open society. It is funny that we had all that showy security for a while and now none. I lived in Manahattan during 9/11, and it was of course very "secure" for a few months. Now a few cops here and there are trying to stay watm and not die of boredom while cars stream by. |
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