Sunday, August 27, 2006

Carry-On Knives for Terrorists?





While looking through the Cold Steel website to see if they had any knives worthy of me drooling on, I came across the Nightshade Series of knives. They claim these knives are made of a fiberglass reinforced synthetic material that is nearly undetectable. They further state the knives can be taped, tied, or tucked just about anywhere on a person's body. Plus, they're really affordable. It's a keen idea just waiting for the wrong usage.

Without out and out saying it, I got the impression that one could tape this to their body and walk right through airport security and go through the metal detectors with a fairly effective stabbing instrument. Yes, that would be illegal and I do not condone trying it.

But let's say for the sake of argument that a group of terrorists order a bunch of these and tape them to their torso's, legs, shove one up the crack of their ass, or whatever. While the politically correct airport security folks are doing their best taking away granny's fingernail clippers and junior's bottle of 7-Up, and generally singling out the elderly, or frail, or children, or whoever so as not to get sued by Mohammed for racial profiling, the terrorists get sent on through to board the plane armed with pretty stout knives, while no one is any the wiser.

Now on the plane the terrorists have a strong chance of hijacking the plane, because they have large knives and the FFA has left all the sheeple passengers unarmed without so much as paperclip and spare shoelace to MacGyver themselves a machine gun from, and odds are the passengers are going to sit back let themselves be taken hostage only to get killed because the terrorists are on a suicide mission, instead of ganging up on them and fighting back. If there's a good chance I'm gonna die, I'd rather die a hero than a coward.

No, I'm not saying these non-metallic knives should be banned, what I am saying is that just when you think airport security has saved us all from ourselves, there's always another way. Taking away personal items isn't going to be as effective as racial profiling would be. Instead of digging through an 80 year old granny's purse, try patting down the foreign looking guy with the shifty eyes and fidgety hands

Any bets on if and when we start seeing these things show up on the news in the hands of airborne terrorists?