Category Archives: Homeland (In)Security

Here’s some good news!

Mineta Resigns As Transportation Secretary
Via Glenn, who is taking credit. (I should take credit too - it’s only two years or so since I called for his removal.)
Any rate, never mind credits, I’m glad he’s out. Unless they replace him with someone worse…

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Feel safe yet?

Man With Bloody Chain Saw Let in to U.S.
James gets my quote of the week for the following:
One doesn’t have to be Quincy, M.E. to spot blood on a chain saw, especially when the guy is also carrying a sword, a hatchet, a knife, and brass knuckles. And looks like the guy in the [...]

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Institutional Insanity.

Read: Drop Those Nose Hair Clippers, Soldier!.

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Airport (In)Security™

The following is a must read… and it has a surprise ending too. But it doesn’t reflect very well on airport security. So here you are: The Sandmonkey Airport Incident and The Sandmonkey Airport Incident part 2.
Oh, and before anyone gets offended at the titles, please note that The Sandmonkey is the blogger. [...]

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Prime Snark.

By Fred at Rantburg on the subject of the FBI discovering explosives in Terry Nichol’s home. Which appear to date from before the Oklahoma City atrocity. The FBI is watching out for us. Do you feel safer now?

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Oops.

Man Locked in Cargo Hold Flies to Philly
A young man loading baggage into an airplane in Milwaukee got locked in a cargo hold Friday and stayed there on a flight to Philadelphia, Midwest Airlines officials said.
“He was in the process of securing a wheelchair, tying it down,” airline spokeswoman Carol Skornicka said Friday [...]

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