What happens to your toothpaste, shampoo, lipstick, water, and everything else you throw away at the airport because of stupid new airport security theater rules which say that water bottle might be carrying liquid explosives?
In Eugene, Ore., some of those items are making their way to the area’s homeless.
Charley Harvey, assistant executive director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County, has been picking through the discarded potential liquid explosives at Eugene Airport since last Tuesday. He took every bottle of shampoo and shaving cream, but passed on the brandy and the Vampire Blood.
Officials at the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County spotted a salvage opportunity. They figured that the discarded items at the Eugene Airport were a way to provide homeless people with perfectly good products. Beginning Tuesday, they began collecting the banned goods for distribution at their First Place Family Center in Eugene.
“We’re always looking for shampoo, toothpaste and other toiletries to help homeless families,” Harvey said. “It usually takes us a week or two to get this much (donated by the public). Hopefully, it’s an ongoing windfall.” — Eugene Register-Guard
City officials, who own the airport trash bins, allowed Harvey to collect whatever he could find useful, so that the city wouldn’t have to throw it out.
Wait a minute, throw out tons of potentially dangerous materials? Isn’t the reason they’re banned from planes the fact that they could be explosives? One wonders now if that’s even a fact at all.
But that’s just the city airport trash bins. Anything seized at a federal security checkpoint goes through a different procedure: First, the TSA screener pours the seized liquid into a single large bin, mixing it with all the other liquids seized at the checkpoint that day. Then the mixed liquids and their containers are hauled away and disposed of by a contractor.
Hold on just a second. We all heard on the news that the danger was that terrorists would mix liquids together to create explosives such as the highly volatile TATP. Now, it seems, the Terrorist Support Agency is doing the terrorists’ job for them.
“Yeah, that’s pretty stupid,” wrote Stephen VanDyke.
TSA screeners are so dedicated to this plot that they willingly risk their lives by handling potentially explosive liquids as roughly as if they were nothing more than harmless toiletries. Or maybe they’ve all been brainwashed by the KGB. Or aliens! It might be true, you know.
After all, what other explanation could there be? That all those things really are harmless, that the government’s just trying to put on a big show? That’s crazy talk. — No Treason
Congratulations, you figured it out. Everyone — including the TSA — knows all of these liquids are perfectly harmless. This is pure security theater, meant to make people “feel good” about flying in the face of a highly overblown one-in-a-million “threat.”
The worst part is the American people are lapping it up like dogs.
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Viper007Bond
Aug 22, 2006
Well, to be frank, Eugene is just a college town for the University of Oregon pretty much. You can hardly call their airport a real airport.
PDX (Portland International) on the other hand…
Michael Hampton
Aug 22, 2006
You apparently missed the memo: The U.S. is crawling with terrorists! They’re under every rock and behind every tree! And they’re pouring over the Mexican border by the thousands every day! You’ve probably got hundreds of terrorists right there in Eugene just waiting to launch their evil plots of destruction.
Kitanis
Aug 22, 2006
You apparently missed the memo: The U.S. is crawling with terrorists! They’re under every rock and behind every tree! And they’re pouring over the Mexican border by the thousands every day! You’ve probably got hundreds of terrorists right there in Eugene just waiting to launch their evil plots of destruction.
Oh horse…
This terrorist under every rock stuff is for the birds…. Its law
enforcement wet dream to have these draconian measures past in place.
I know you were being sarcastic Michael.. but this whole liquid thing
in the airline security thing has my blood boiling over the stupidity of
it all.
Michael Hampton
Aug 22, 2006
Hey, I was just trying to lighten the mood.
mr.ed
Aug 22, 2006
I hear the Chanel is delish.
Whimspiration
Aug 23, 2006
Actually, most airports are selling the things they confiscate on Ebay and at surplus goods auctions…
Kris Kemp
Aug 24, 2006
Sad how Homeland Security is whipping up fear about fake terrorism alerts. 9-11 was an inside job anyway. http://www.unitedwereduped.com
mark
Aug 28, 2006
and do not forget what our treasonous attorney general said last week: “there are over 50,000 web sites on the internet recruiting and training
terrorists”
“What luck for rulers that men do not think”
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one”
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”
– Adolf Hitler