Bag's Rants

Heathrow, we have a problem.

Now it seems to me that if our flights can be brought down so easily with a couple of shampoo bottles full of liquid we have a major problem on all flights. All over the world. So why is it just the UK that seems to be going through this panic. No internal flights in Oz or the US are stopping all hand luggage. Yet, surely they must have the same concerns.

Meanwhile back in the UK, already the carriers are saying the checks and delays are not sustainable. Read here. That means that our next batch from the remaining 240,000+¹ remaining disaffected Muslims will have a clear run pretty soon providing they don't get too ambitious and try to do more than one or two at a time.

Personally if this type of attack is likely to bring down aircraft then we have, in reality, no chance of stopping them. They are bound to succeed. The law of averages are on their side and if they can smuggle guns and grenades on as they have in the past what chance have we to stop liquids which could even be held internally.

However, I don't believe that these explosives they are concocting can bring down our aircraft. Maybe if they got into the cockpit or had free access to certain areas on the aircraft but not from within the passenger area.

So we are either going to see a retraction of the power of these weapons and a return to the mere paranoia we had two weeks ago or we see naked passengers having full body XRays for every flight or we say goodbye to flights as we know it. That would be good news for the environmentalists. Only people in their private planes flying. Goodbye cheap flights and travel for the masses.

1) Based on 1M muslims in the UK and 24% are with the terrorists. Probably growing daily.

posted by Bag @ 8:16 pm