Nigerian Man attempts to blow up Plane

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

WOW! That LITERALLY hits way too close to home for me. By the way, take that E from Clair and give it to Pointe

Lol sorry Rick. I actually thought about you when I heard that.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Yeah, right! And where did you learn that little factoid? Care to revisit the infamous thread? http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=102169 Are you really afraid of white people now, too, or did we just teach you to add Timothy McVeigh to your list to throw us off? BTW, is your "friend" a Pakistani or a Palestinian now?

You can bring up all the old thread topics you want. I've always seen Timothy McVeigh as a terrorist. No one taught me shit, except my history teacher at the time. And if you really care to know, my best friend is Pakistani, and I went to school in Little Middle East, aka Dearborn. Look it up, learn something.

I will accept and apologize for my ignorance of Detroit. But PM Mama, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? A bomb is a bomb. You are making my point. Whether we save the cities or not, we are still leaving the people in our airplanes in danger with nuts strapped with explosives with cheesy "sit in your seat for the last hour" solutions to solve an attempted terrorist plot. Was he in the bathroom when he tried to detonate the bomb? NO! Would that rule have prevented him from assembling the bomb an hour and 10 minutes before landing to go back to his seat and detonate it when he wanted? NO! The rule, as I previously said, is STUPID! The ONLY reason that plane didn't blow up was because the detonator FAILED. Not because of any security measure in place. I for one feel no safer for any safety measure thought of so far.

I agree with you here, and I have to laugh at your quote about "nuts strapped with explosives", cuz literally they were strapped to his nuts.

As for my respect for other's lives, before you question other's dedication to human life, question your own dedication. What do you do in a single year, much less a day for anyone in your xenophobic, can't get into an elevator with anyone other than a child, scared of her own shadow life than yourself? I measure my respect for other's lives in more tangible ways than respect for a dumb rule thought up on the fly after a scary near miss that also produced a thoughtless comment like, "Our system worked" from Janet Napolitano. Maybe if you thought about something beyond yourself, you might too.

Oh, and BTW, if you can't find humor in the situation or compassion for the poor Nigerian man who was ripped off the toilet and arrested for having a GI bug, than you have no soul.

Ha. Well for one I can't get into an elevator with a small child. I can't get into an elevator with anyone considering the fact that I'm terrified of elevators and small spaces. I have to psych myself out before getting on a plane so yeah I'm leery of everyone. No, not every terrorist looks creepy, and not every creepy person is a terrorist. But I'm still leery of them. Visit Taylor, Michigan and find out why (lol Dee and Pika would probably understand that).

I find humor in a lot of things. My favorite thing to do is laugh, and make people laugh. And I actually put everyone in my life before myself. (and I find it funny for someone on a message board to call me out about that lol like you know me?) But I find nothing about terrorism to laugh about. I have friends in the military who have fought or may fight in this war. I have a high school friend who was out of the military but decided to work for a private security company in Iraq and was murdered a few months ago. (think I'm making it up? Google Justin Pope of Riverview, Michigan). And lastly, my cousin was in the World Trade Center on 9-11 and lost his whole work crew, and my uncle lost many friends (the firefighters from Brooklyn). So NO. I have quite a soul and I think it's ridiculous for you to accuse me of not having one since I don't find humor in this situation. I do have compassion for the man who just had to take a shit, but I don't blame everyone for being scared seeing as the other incident was just the day before and someone was incessant on being in the bathroom.

It's sad that I have to put my proof in parenthesis to someone on a message board to prove that I'm not just making shit up and to stop being accused. I hope that one day our government finds a way to keep us safe so we don't have to worry about things like this. And if it means dealing with a stupid rule because they think it'll work? Fine. Pat me down, scan me, I don't care. Just keep us safe.