My view of the world

I re-read an article in the NY Times, titled “liquid as a weapon.” A friend’s distant relative was mentioned, so when he called, I went on line and looked it up.
After a bit of conversation I got to thinking. Nitroglycerin, in it’s purest form is barely yellow and a mixture of nitroglycerin and ethylene glycol dinitrate freezes at -29 °C, that’s -20 °F. Just the thing for a double walled thermous.
Why yes officer, it’s a container, you put in the freezer to keep your water cold.
I’m not certain how it could be detonated, but I am quite certain someone could find a way.
There are inumerable things that can be made to cause damage ot an airplane. Compressed air would be a good example, have you ever seen what happens when the valve gets knocked off a high pressure tank, think rocket.

The point is, there’s no way to protect against all the possibilities, and air travel is still much safer than driving. The reason I try to avoid flying (my arms get tired) are airports, with the associated, security, ala the three stooges, and parking problems, not to mention the long ass time spent in customs.

For those of you who are worried about a bunch of lunatic, ragheads, might I point out, our very own lunatics, Tim Mcveigh and Terry Nichols.
The Oklahoma City Bombing -A few barrels of fertilizer and some racing fuel. (Tim Mcveigh, by the way, was a registered Republican.)

Or how about, David Earl Burgert, from Flathead County, Mt. who was the head of Project 7, which consisted of between 1 and nine people.
Back in 2002 the police raided a trailer he owned and found 30,000 rounds of ammunition, body armor, plastic explosives, machine guns and other weapons, including anti-personel mines.
(The 30,000 rounds isn’t all that weird for that part of the world, but claymores ruin too much meat to be good poaching tools.)
Burgert’s plan was to kill all the local law enforcement personel, including judges and the local dog catcher, yes, even the dog catcher.
Also arrested was Tracy Brockway, 32, who was charged with obstruction of justice for harboring Mr. Burgert. Officials said Ms. Brockway used her job as a cleaning woman at the Whitefish Police Department, to gather information for Project 7 on police officers in the area, she used to go through the trash cans and read the memos that had been thrown away.
Law enforcement officials kept the arrest a secret because they hoped to gain access to encrypted files in a computer owned by Mr. Burgert that might lead to more arrests.
But information about the plot became public at a bail reduction hearing for Ms. Brockway. Officials said the computer code had still not been cracked.
The whole theory seems to have been, if you kill off the cops, the national guard will be called out, more separatists will join the revolution, and help wipe out the guard, so by the time the federal government steps in, all the separatists in the country will join in, the army can be wiped out and the revolution will be a success… OK, now that we have that out of the way.

The point is, while we are in danger from outside sources, we have our own collections of nut jobs.

Kids carry guns and knives to school, and think it’s all right, because that’s what they see on TV.
Amish kids get killed by an outsider, because of something he said he did many years ago.
The cops are shooting people at a record rate and more planes fall out of the air do to shoddy maintainence, pilot error, and bad airtraffic control, than will ever be blown out of the sky by any number of terrorists.

JFK said that if a man was willing to trade his life for the life of the President, nobody could stop him.

This is our problem, the world is full of psychos, incompetents, people who will let others die to protect the company’s bottom line, and people who think that killing other people will get them into heaven.

You can’t save the world, all you can do is try to make your little corner of it a little more pleasant.
As Ben Franklin put it, prepare for the worst, and hope for the best.

I’m not paranoid.
They are out to get me, and if you say you can’t see it, you’re lying, you must be one of them.