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> http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/53968.htm
> AIR-HEADS READY TO ALLOW BLADES
> By GEOFF EARLE and IAN BISHOP Post Correspondents
>
> November 4, 2005 -- WASHINGTON - The flying public turned
> white-knuckled yesterday over word that the feds might ease post-9/11
> restrictions to allow passengers to bring scissors and small knives
> aboard planes again.
It sounds like Bush is planning to let some terrorists
fly some planes into a few more of our buildings.
I guess Bush and the rest of the .ing republicans
figure that is the ONLY way to pull Bush's plummeting
pole numbers out of the toilet.
I wonder which buildings Bush and the .ing
republicans have selected to kill thousands of
Americans in this time?
>
> "I'd like to know why [knives] are no longer a threat when they were a
> threat over the last four years," fumed Rep. Joseph Crowley
> (D-Queens), whose firefighter cousin was killed on 9/11.
>
> Crowley and others were steamed that the Transportation Safety
> Administration is looking to shorten its list of "prohibited items" to
> lessen travel delays and focus on other threats.
>
> "I don't know why you would need to carry a pocketknife on a plane,"
> said Joe Oerke, 25, of Manhattan, who was flying to Dallas last night
> from La Guardia. "I'd rather keep things the way they are."
>
> Nancy Marte, 37, of Brooklyn, who was flying from La Guardia to Fort
> Lauderdale, called the TSA plan "a bonehead idea."
>
> "I'm not going to quit flying, but I feel unprotected," she said.
>
> Asked how the agency could consider lifting the ban on knives and
> scissors, TSA spokeswoman Anne Davis said, "Because the security
> environment has dramatically improved since 9/11."
>
> Alisa Arnold, a flight attendant, wrote the TSA last week, describing
> a frightening incident on board a plane and urging the agency to keep
> the ban.
>
> Arnold recalled that on a September flight, two drunken passengers had
> to be subdued.
>
> "If these men had the kind of dangerous items that you want to bring
> back on board, I can tell you, without a doubt, that the situation
> would have turned out gravely different," Arnold wrote.
>
>
> Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik also slammed the
> proposal at a time when terrorism is still a threat.
>
> "I just hope this isn't a sign of the times, which is [that] four
> years after Sept. 11, [we've become] complacent and less vigilant,"
> Kerik told Fox News Channel.
>
> "There are some serious implications to this," said a surprised Rep.
> John Sweeney (R-N.Y.), a Transportation Committee member. "Congress
> will require some answers from TSA."
>
> Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) said, "I'd rather have people be
> inconvenienced than have somebody get away with something."
>
> The out-of-the-blue changes, including the possibility that scissors
> and small knives might be OK'd, was first reported yesterday by The
> Wall Street Journal.
>
> Currently, passengers can carry on nail clippers, cigar cutters and
> safety razors.
>
> Meanwhile, the TSA announced a plan yesterday that would allow
> passengers to avoid extra security checks, such as secondary
> pat-downs, if they register personal information with the government.
>
> Additional reporting by Ed Robinson in New York
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