Liberals can be so irritating!

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

opinion/ This is why I do not call myself a LIBERAL

what. the. hell???

Have we turned into a nation of sheeple? Baaaaaaaaaa prooooooootecccctttttttttttt usssssssssssss from the littttttttttleee kniiiiiiiiivvvvvvvessssss.

As the TSA finally shows some common sense in priorities and resource allocation, flight attendants and various wetty pant's suddenly all 'have friends that were slit ear to ear on 9/11' by...um...scimitars?

this is so sickening and unacceptable. One of my dear friends, had her throat slit with a knife on flight 93!! How dare you put all us flight attendants back into danger by allowing knives back on the airplanes??? This is despicable that you would do this..it will make our airplanes less safe, and we want to have you reconsider this and throw it out. NO KNIVES and or any other weapons needed!!! PLEASE!

And then there is this jewel:

As flight attendant I find it ridiculous that you would allow an instrument that could lead to my death and many others on board a plane.

Do tell? Does business class still have metal eating utensils? How heavy is that coffee pot, and could it indeed be a deadly weapon if whooped up side your pumpkin head? Ball point pins in the neck! Belts and bras can strangle you! And then..there are those pesky 'emergency exits'...

Look.. sheeple.... listen to me!

I think that life is a risk.The whole war on terror was a joke, anyway. There was only one day of attack, and that was not really an 'attack' by an enemy, than a 'statement'. Most risk of this magnitude is acceptable. The no-fly list should be the next to go.

 If you don't like the risks of the job, no one is keeping you there but YOURSELF. /opinion



What do you think?

Comments

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

I think you need a nap.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

OK. I agree. But what do you think about the issue?

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

I think TSA security theater is inane, but I also think there is a pretty strong argument saying that blades are a poor idea inside the passenger cabin. Further, I agree there are some big risks with working on a plane, among them is fiery death. However, have your throat slit is not supposed to be one, and you come off like an ass suggesting that the FLIGHT ATTENDENTS leading this protest are whiners.

Be clear, here: a passenger jet is a thin tube hurtling through a part of the atmosphere that is deadly to humans at 100s of miles per hour. The passenger cabin should be as safe and as orderly as possible so that those other factors do not lead to 100s of simultaneous deaths. Comparing the potential mayhem someone can inflict in that space with a blade to a ball point?

Go take a nap.

[widgets101.livejournal.com]

Arm the pilots and make all the passengers and attendants fly naked.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

Now you're talking some quality classical anarchy!

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

rubber bullet pistols next to SkyNews™?

I like it!

[papasha-mueller.livejournal.com]

All passengers must be wrapped up with transparent 3M tape, X-rayed and fly in the luggage compartment.

[widgets101.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would work too.

[op-tech-glitch.livejournal.com]

Ban everyone except dead people from flying.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

Old USMC maxim; your mind is the weapon, the environment your tool.

As for finding the whole concept of "wepon-free zones" or banning weapons irritatingly laughable...

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

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[rick-day.livejournal.com]

it would be....


friday

[dwer.livejournal.com]

and you think this is the fault of liberals because...

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

He's making an effort to balance....

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

:D

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

because it's FRIDAY, dude!

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Having donated about $250.00 dollars worth of very nice knife to the TSA quite by our distracted inattentiveness (on both parts because it was only noticed and confiscated during my RETURN flight - we both missed it the first time), I can't say that I oppose this really.

If not then lets all fly naked after full and deep orifice examination. Cause I can get capped by a nickle plated .38 on any street corner. C'mon...

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Am I a liberal? Most people say so, and I look up the word and doesn't seem all that bad. But you make it sound like something I smear on my nipples when I have a cough!

[wight1984.livejournal.com]

I don't understand the connection between this and liberalism.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

1. ask any conservative
2. read the petition comments.
3. Have Coke™ and smile!


ETA: 4. NANNY STATE

[rimpala.livejournal.com]

Wasn't a box cutter behind the original hijacks? I'm not a goldfish sorry.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

do you think, after every one went through 9/11, and ANYONE can get frisky with weapons and not have 60 people jump their asses?

Remember the guy who was duct taped to his seat for being 'dangerous'? We are not going to let that happen again with such small weaponry.

We fear not, these cutters of boxes!!

[maryastor.livejournal.com]

I often side-eye TSA for their policies, but I can see why banning all knives would be seen as a good idea. The point is that eating utensils, pens, and coffee pots have logical uses on a plane, while a knife of any size does not. Though I do not quite understand what this has to do with liberals.

[vehemencet-t.livejournal.com]

while a knife of any size does not

I have never flown for reasons like this. Do they put the "objectionable materials" in luggage and then give them back when you land or are they just confiscated or banned from flying? Because if they are just banned then you are forgetting that someone's trusty knife (or *gasp* knives) might have logical uses *at their destination* they are flying too, such as an heirloom or tool they always carry with them.

[meus-ovatio.livejournal.com]

I flew home from base after coming back from Aghanistan with blasting caps and some small amount of C4 on my carry-on. I used my daypack as luggage and forgot about the myriad of death tools I stashed away in hidden pockets and inside sleeves. I didn't notice until I got home, and I was all like, "Oh shit." How does one dispose of military ordnance in American suburbia? I have no idea. I threw it into a river. The garbage was a no-go.

So anyways, fly safe.