Don't you think it is ridiculous banning people to transport liquids in carry-on luggages when travelling ?

Question

Within the US it is hard to get a visa for people to travel, now another issue is to banned all kind of liquids including water and toothpaste. I think we are just loosing privacy and getting more control by the goverment. WHY do we pay taxes then? The Goverment has failed to protect us as is intimidating all kind of people just by controlling too much in our daily lives.

Answer 1

What's stupid is how governments REact to these consequences. Some idiot terrorists try to put explosives into liquids, so liquids are banned. Next time they'll try to put explosives in ball point pens, so ball point pens will be banned. Then some terrorist will try to put explosives in hearing aids, so hearing aids will be banned. And on and on and on.....
Fighting "terrorists" shouldn't be a REactive occupation - instead, governments should be taking PROactive approaches toward terrorism by trying to resolve differences and conflicts among the many cultures of the world.
Hate, bigotry, and war only begets more hate, bigotry and war.
Maybe we'd be better off trying to understand WHY terrorists hate us so much. Could it be, for example, that Americans represent only 5% of the world's population, yet squander more than 55% of the world's resources? Could it be that our decadent, materialistic lifestyles offend those from other cultures? Might the United States be considered the "bully" of the Earth instead of a world leader and global peacekeeper? If you were living in a poor country, wouldn't you be jealous and outraged at the way Americans live, lavishly wasting money, resources and time? The only way a schoolyard bully survives is to continue to intimidate and manipulate those whom he offends. When the "picked on" finally stands up to the bully, the bully backs down. Maybe that's what these terrorists are doing: telling the "bully Bush" that conflicts cannot be settled with guns and ammo.
You can ban everything on airplanes, and force passengers to board the plane completely naked. It won't stop terrorists: they will simply find other devices or other targets.
While we focus on airports, little has been done to protect our ports, our bus stations, train stations, nuclear power plants, or military bases. Why don't people see the irony in the fact that the Pentagon - supposedly the world's most secure facility for military management - was successfully targeted and attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001?
You can spend billions of dollars on Homeland Security and this country will never be "safe" until we find a way to live in total harmony with the rest of the world. That probably means we're going to have to SHARE the wealth...and most arrogant, greedy, materialistic Americans aren't about to go along with that. -RKO-

Answer 2

I think the Government has taken an action by protecting the citizens due to terrorism actions. It is not being proved that any people have carried liquids explosive over a plane, but by thinking and organizing this kind of thing is a crime and the British t in conjuction with Pakistanies Authorities has dismateled a plot of big dimensions. So for argument say: You are paying taxes and you are getting in return more control because of your safety and in general public safety as well.

Answer 3

What we now know about the London-based plot to destroy ten civilian airplanes points to six conclusions.

First, what stopped this plot was law enforcement. Law enforcement. Not a military invasion of Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, or Iraq. Old-fashioned surveillance, development of human sources, putting pieces together, and cooperation with foreign police and intelligence services.

Second, the conspiracy — if it resembles the London bombings of last summer — will likely be home-grown, another of the growing jihad "fashion" in Europe that comprises the new street gangs of this world. It is not a religious movement, it is not fundamentalism. These are thin veneers. It is at root sheer violence undertaken by young men resentful of many things (not least the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Lebanon) and ready to kill in return. Under different cirucmstances, it could be Tamils or Red Brigades or Michigan Militiamen, and has been.

Third, if al Qaeda was involved (allegedly from Pakistan), we can thank the failure of the war in Afghanistan and the cozying up to Musharraf to destroy them.

Fourth, there was no involvement by any American-based “cells,” according the FBI Director Robert Mueller. As many of us have been saying for nearly five years, and as the 9/11 Commission Report showed, there is virtually no plausible American jihad organization at work, and never has been.

Fifth, the plot again reveals how ill-equipped the U.S. Government has been in anticipating plausible attack scenarios and taking steps to prevent them. Liquid bombs were so hard to figure out? Al Qaeda already tried it. DHS has almost completely missed the threat, just as they are missing the vulnerability of cargo holds and God knows what else. Thomas Kean, the former GOP governor and co-chair of the 9/11 Commission, called this liquid bomb error “appalling” and wondered, on an NBC program four months ago, why no progress had been made. What are the tens of billions being spent on? This is Katrina II.

Sixth, and most important, we must end our involvement in Iraq and sharply refocus our presence in the region. The war president’s approach is not working. It’s a diversion from the real threat. It’s a spur to bitter revenge. It’s a big feedback loop that will endanger us for years, if not decades. Our lives are now at stake because the Bush catastrophe has created thousands of new terrorists.

Naturally, the politically expedient are trying to gain an edge. Defeated Senator Joseph Lieberman immediately attacked his victorious primary challenger Ned Lamont, saying that Lamont’s leave Iraq policy is somehow connected to this. It’s the opposite — the war distracts and inflames. We will see the crowing from the Bushies now, when in fact they were again asleep at the wheel, only this time the Brits saved the day. The war v. law enforcement contrast — remember how John Kerry was ridiculed by Cheney for uggesting that aggressive police work and human intelligence were anti-terror linchpins? — is now buried by conflating the “war against terror” in Iraq with this Scotland Yard and MI5 success.

Reversing America’s colossally destructive series of interventions in the Middle East — a cause, a trigger, a recruitment fountain, and a charity for jihad — will require an entirely different mindset, not just an adjustment or a measured retreat. When America responded, after being prodded, to the tsunami victims in Indonesia early last year, it profoundly changed Indonesians’ views of the United States. New attitudes of support and cooperation suddenly sprang forth. This “natural experiment” should be examined to learn from, possibly to emulate, in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere.

We’re now viewed as destroyers, and destruction is the retort. This is the “new Middle East” that is aborning — one of relentless violence — if we do not end our own relentless violence there. The would-be bombers in London are a reminder of how close it is.

Answer 4

The rules are simple; - ALL items that are liquid, cream, gel, lotion, paste or aerosol must each be in a container that is no larger than 3.4 ounces (100 ml). You may not take a 6 ounce container that is half full. - ALL of those must be in a single, 1 quart (1 liter) zip lock plastic bag. You may use a smaller bag, but not a larger one. - You may take as many of those items as will fit into the bag and still allow the bag to close normally. - Powders and solids do not need to be in that bag, and should not be there. If you try to take a full size bottle of shampoo in your carry on bag <>. Period. It will not matter what you put it it. So - either buy the items you want at your destination and throw away the unused portion before you return, or buy travel size empty containers and pour your shampoo etc. into those, or buy travel size versions of your items and, when you return, pour the unused portion back into your full size bottles. It is not that hard. Really.

Answer 5

All I know is that I will feel much safer the next time I fly knowing that no liquids are allowed in carry-ons. Yes, it's a huge inconvenience, but the alternative is worse. Do you want to die because they allow liquids and someone brings explosive liquids on board, combines them and blows the plane up? I don't.

Answer 6

No I do not. These measures are for your safety! I doubt they will be everlasting. With current events as they stand,its a sensible precaution. Terrorists are experts at disguising anything to achieve their aims.Given the chance, that's exactly what they will do.The weakest link in the chain,is a golden opportunity for them. Terrorist are always updating. The idea is to be one step ahead of them,as far as we can of course. Hopefully that's what the Security services and Governments are working on.Not being able to take liquids along with you is a small price to pay in exchange for your life.Be patient. If Governments do nothing,they are condemned,if they do something, they are still condemned. !!!

Answer 7

i dont think its ridiculous. the U.K did a fabulous job of averting a major type of disater. we are in a new world and we have to lvie by its rule's if not some one else will get control of the world.remember the phrase---"Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures"

Answer 8

The federal gov. brags about hiring a convicted currency forger at the treasury. I wonder why they don't hire a convicted terrorist for defense purposes instead of for sacking political opponents and those that won't work for them.
Is it drugs or just marijuana?

Answer 9

because in the UK some people tried to bring on liquid explosives onto planes in things like water and shampoo bottles.....

havent you been watching the news?

gotta be cautious son.

Answer 10

are you stupid! they are doing it for our safety, we can get free water on planes anyway. If you're so unhappy about paying taxes do something about it and work for yourself thats what i do, i got pissed off too, but seriously the water and liquid thing is good!