An 8 year old on the No Fly List? Really?

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

Although I wouldn't put it past a crazy suicide bomber to use their 8 year old as a bomb carrier.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking too.

[charlie2010]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses
Although I wouldn't put it past a crazy suicide bomber to use their 8 year old as a bomb carrier.

My two-year old son was searched last summer, when we were picked out randomly (I think) for an extra check when we flew 'home' from NY to Europe. At first I was a bit worried as I was not allowed to stay with him (had to stay 10 feet away), and at the time, he didn't speak that much English yet (he's come a long way since then!) and slightly annoyed. I understand the necessity of the whole screening process, and always try to be as cooperative as I can be but - naive me - was thinking this was a bit over the top and that a two-year old, in all likelihood, was not going to blow up a plane. My husband, rightfully, pointed out to me that if they didn't apply the same measures of security to kids, it would only be a matter of time before some idiot would use a kid for exactly that purpose.

The guy who 'checked' my son turned it into one big game for him, asking him to pretend he was an airplane (which was a word he did know) so he could pat him down.

If that's what it takes to fly home and arrive safely, then that's what it takes!

[honeychile]

I recently read an article that many of the child suicide bombers are actually handicapped, physically or mentally, and this is genocide in more than one way. Unfortunately, I forget the magazine - I was in a doctor's office.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I recently read an article that many of the child suicide bombers are actually handicapped, physically or mentally, and this is genocide in more than one way. Unfortunately, I forget the magazine - I was in a doctor's office.

Have you seen "The Hurt Locker"? If any of that was true, there are some very disturbing scenes in that movie involving a child.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Have you seen "The Hurt Locker"? If any of that was true, there are some very disturbing scenes in that movie involving a child.

Haven't seen that movie - but I'll be sure to put it on my Don't Bother list. Anyone who can use a child as any sort of tool of destruction is less than subhuman.

And I emphasize the word use because, well, kids sometimes just are tools of destruction - in a funny sense.