Dangerous banned liquids given to homeless
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/21/dangerous-banned-liquids-given-to-homeless/
By: Michael Hampton
Posted: August 21, 2006 9:53 pm
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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