Schiphol Security chief criticises EU approach to air safety

He’s also pissed off with all the technology being put into airports and the ignoring of human intelligence.

Marijn Ornstein, the manager of security policy at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, said: “If you look at all the recent terrorist incidents, the bombs were detected because of human intelligence not because of screening … If even a fraction of what is spent on screening was invested in the intelligence services we would take a real step toward making air travel safer and more pleasant.

via EUobserver / Security chief criticises EU approach to air safety.

These liquid bans, x-ray scanners to ogle your naked arse as you walk through, all that – it’s nonsense!

Tory councillor arrested over Twitter stoning post

AND if Ireland isn’t crazy enough, England is just as mad – on the same day!

Gareth Compton tweeted this:
“Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan’t tell Amnesty if you don’t. It would be a blessing, really”

And got arrested. For inciting violence.

People, what is wrong with the world?!

Yasmin is going all sorts of nuts all over this – if it was a joke then, maybe we can retweet it more seriously now: she deserves to be stoned to death over the way she’s got her panties in a knot about this. It would be a blessing.

BBC News – Tory councillor arrested over Twitter stoning post.

Twitter prankster found guilty of … something

OK, so you’re frustrated because you go to some airport and it’s closed. So you joke ‘I’m gonna blow the place sky high’ on Twitter. Does anyone expect the next step to be: you get arrested and found guilty?!

It happened to Paul Chambers in Ireland.

So people are massively retweeting his message in protest. This is inanity – what kind of justice system do they have in Ireland?!

Tweeters Risk the Law by Retweeting Same Message That Found a Man Guilty.