Logan Airport Cargo Area Evacuated

[AsahinaKimi]

Source: Logan Airport Cargo Area Evacuated

BOSTON -- Massport officials said a cargo area at Logan International Airport was being evacuated as a precaution Tuesday afternoon while investigators examined a suspicious item discovered there.

They said it was the Delta Airlines cargo area located on Harborside Drive, well away from any passenger areas at the airport.

There was no immediate word on what the item was but officials said the evacuation was triggered by a state police K-9 unit dog picking up a scent near one of the pallets at the cargo area.



EDIT FOR MORE INFO:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/masspoft_invest.html?p1=News_links

Read more: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/25894162/detail.html

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Yikes..

[bushisanidiot]

1. Gee. I guess there really was a reason the TSA was taking this threat seriously.

The tea party whiners will now put on the tin foil hats and spin this into to being President Obama's fault.

Idiots.

[earthside]

3. Humph.

No ... I guess the scanners and searches are in the wrong places; looks like they need to be in cargo warehouses.

And, by the way, there are plenty of liberals and progressives concerned about the abuse of civil liberties of airline passengers.

What threat? What is the "reason the TSA was taking this threat seriously"? Aren't we allowed to know? Or are we back to Bush secrecy and the notion that only certain officials should know what is going on?

[bushisanidiot]

20. You're right. The white house should tell the media exactly what they know.

lets forget about security measures at all.

everyone should just be armed and have their own body guards. let's remove the government from the equation and let everyone defend themselves.

great idea.

[uppityperson]

6. Cargo needs searching, not crotches. eom

[avaistheone1]

7. PRECISELY!!!!!

[bushisanidiot]

21. AWOL Bush would happily submit to a crotch search.

don't you think?

[katnapped]

14. Yes, absolutely!

If you people had submitted to the Recta-Scan none of this would've happened!!!! :sarcasm:

[bushisanidiot]

18. You're right. We should just eliminate security on airplanes altogether.

how many hijacked plans do you think it will take for americans to stop flying altogether?

4? 5? 6?

[frylock]

23. how many hijacked planes have we had since 911?

4? 5? 0? it doesn't have to be an either we engage in senseless political theatre or do nothing. try mixing a little grey in your life.

[bushisanidiot]

25. underwear bomber was less than a year ago.

how soon we forget.

[frylock]

39. how many people were killed?

i've soonly forgotten.

[bushisanidiot]

42. Luckily, zero.

emphasis on "LUCKILY"!

[frylock]

44. luckily nobody was killed when adam savage snuck these on a plane..

now tell me again how these procedures are making us safer? while your at it, explain to me how groping passengers in the US would've prevented your dreaded underpants bomber from boarding a plane in amsterdam. i eagerly await your reply.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3yaqq9Jjb4&feature=player_embedded

[bushisanidiot]

45. Maybe we should have separate planes for people who don't

want any security measures taken and everyone else could fly on the safer planes.

then everyone would be happy.

[frylock]

50. who is saying that they don't want security measures?

WHO?! nobody is saying that. but for you it's either black or white. security experts have already stated that these methods are ineffective. adam savage proved himself in that video (that you have not bothered to comment on) that the procedures are fucking useless!

[Windy]

59. I agree totally!!! You must fly alot. I do and I fly overseas and I feel the exact same way! nt

[kestrel91316]

41. He didn't bomb anything. Take your RW talking points elsewhere.

[Windy]

58. Because some don't agree with your position its a right wing talking point???????

Wow....

We are screwed in this country.

[Nihil]

63. Probably because "some" swallow and repeatedly regurgitate right wing talking points.

Or maybe you think that the deliberate over-riding of
1) the father's warning to security
2) the normal trigger points of cash-only sales, etc.
3) the waving on despite everything
4) the inability of the device to perform anyway
are just things that *should* be broadcast to every little
loyal sheep on every occasion to keep them pissing themselves
with fear?

> We are screwed in this country.

Only by people like you.

[enlightenment]

38. Strawman.

Do you have anything more useful in your repertoire or is this your feeble attempt to stifle discussion?

[Grinchie]

51. You are fed poisoned food, and you think they really care about us?

I'd rather take my chances than submit to the TSA Lunacy. It's all a scam made up to spend the free money given the Homeland Security Vassals and the TSA contractors.

In Farming there is a thing called Integrated Pest Management or IPM. This technique relies on the fact that you never make it easy for the pest to feed on your food. You don't plant row crops, and you force the bugs to expend energy to get from one plant to the other, instead of letting them walk to the next plant.

In this whole security thing, the citizens are treated like the pests instead of the ladybugs. Instead of allowing us to make our own choices regarding so called security measures, which are dubious and poorly documented, as well as being highly suspect in nature, we are forced under the microscope and mishandled.

I have served my country, and would have no problem confronting a problem on an aircraft of it was necessary. I think the majority of people would do this as well, but I guess most Americans are thought of as passive obedient sheep, and thus the treatment from the TSA Ganstaz.

In case you have not followed history, you may find it interesting to know that their were many Hijackings in the 70's that did not force the treatment we see today. Nobody asks how they coped with it back then without frisking each and every passenger...

[Hawkowl]

26. FOUND BY A DOG!!!

I hope the pooch found a bomb and it is publicized like Sarah Palin humping a moose! Bomb sniffing dogs are the answer, not groping, or cancer causing x-rays.

[bushisanidiot]

30. Agreed! But you know someone will complain about that, too!

.

[liberalmike27]

37. If you haven't caught on to this

by now, it's pretty clear that this media-manufactured pat-down issue is all about trying to privatize yet another industry. They are thinking about unionizing it, so it's time, in their thinking to privatize it, so employees will have no benefits, half the wages, and end up hating their jobs even more than they probably do, and do a worse job yet.

Add to that the huge new HS industry, the fact that Chertoff I'm hearing more and more is involved in selling these scan machines, making huge profits, when they don't work so well anyway, and that just adds more reason for suspicion.

None of these issues come up unless FOX brings them up, it would seem. I'd love it if MSNBC would bring up an issue once and a while, rather than to serve as an echo of FOX news, trying to debunk things we haven't seen, nor want to see, because WE don't watch FOX Noise. So, MSNBC, who exactly are you trying to debunk the issue with, that 2 percent that might actually be watching both? I'm not even sure what type of person that'd be, so indecisive that he has to watch both???

If you want to learn more about the new government boondogge, the HS department (defense, homeland security, defense, homeland security, hey, aren't these two the same thing, hmmmm....) try picking up a copy of Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine. There's a chapter or two dealing with how Bush's cronies cashed in on the shock of 9/11, to open new industries to peddle shit to our government.

[bushisanidiot]

43. Exactly! It's media manufactured "outrage" just like the tea party "outrage"

the "outrage" doesn't exist unless FOX and their cronies declare it so.

It's sad that so many on our side are actually believing their propaganda.

[AnneD]

2. At this point...

I am so suspicious anything TSA etc says. For all we know this is another effort to scare us into the scanning and pat down lines.

AnneD, and my young 20yo daughter was assaulted by the TSA over 6 times this week-and I am one pissed mother.

[KansDem]

5. "...assaulted by the TSA over 6 times this week"

Care to elaborate?

I fly this weekend with my 12-year-old son and want to know what to expect...

[Matariki]

9. 20 year old girl. Enough said.

[uppityperson]

13. "20yo daughter" not "20 year old girl". Try reading it again.

[Matariki]

54. What gives? Your response is unnecessarily confrontational.

I question the motivations for constant screenings of a 20 year old female which are obviously not random and which undermine the TSA's insistence that their agents are 'professional' and 'respectful'.

[uppityperson]

56. You wrote "20 year old girl. Enough said." She wrote 21yo daughter"

I thought you were making it about a 21 yr old being a "girl" when she was a "daughter" and hence questioning the story. "enough said" wasn't enough in this case. My apologies if that is not what you meant.

[AnneD]

27. And a very attractive girl at that....

She said the pat down penetrated her labia and they squeezed her breast. Her offense? When she went through the electronic scanner, she had a suspicious scrunchy on her wrist. :eyes:

Yes she is hot...AND SO AM I!!!!!! :grr: :nuke: We have traveled all over the world and the USA is the worst for security. It is nothing but street theater and enough is enough.

I hope we have mass civil disobedience because we will eventually escalate to cavity searches at the rate they are going.

[Matariki]

55. I'm really sorry to hear she had to endure that.

I'd be fuming mad too. In fact I am. Not that it makes it much better, but I certainly hope the screeners were all women.

[AnneD]

60. They weren't.....

and that makes me madder.

She is 5'2',105 lbs wet and 20 years young, just started seriously dating 6 months, and only just recently became 'active' after a long talk with me. She is as close to physically naive as one gets these days. I sized up the situation, esp when she said it was a guy.

As much as I hate the pat downs, I hope people refuse to go threw the scanners AND refuse the pat downs to the extent they can. It is time for civil disobedience. I intend to whip off some tersely worded letters to the various airlines , the TSA and my congress people. Hell hath no wrath like a mother's fury.

[boppers]

61. She wore the scrunchy 6 times?

Nobody figured out that it had metal until the 6th time? You'd think they'd at least determine *what* was causing her to beep.

[AnneD]

62. Even when they knew what it was....

she had to go through a pat down. That is what pissed me off. At that point it is either some weird sex fetish, humiliation of the victim or grooming of victim/public. WE DON'T LOSE OUR FREEDOM IN ONE LEAP, BUT AN INCH AT A TIME.

[avaistheone1]

8. TSA now needs false flag security incident to convince Americans to accept obscene pat-downs

(NaturalNews) With the grassroots backlash over the TSA's obscene pat-downs growing by the day, it's becoming fairly obvious that the only way the U.S. government is going to get the public to accept these Fourth Amendment violations is if there is another "terrorist incident" that's stopped by the TSA and its naked body scanners.

So far, the TSA is molesting children, teens and grannies without being able to demonstrate that this gross violation of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights is having any effect whatsoever on improving air travel safety. But if there's anything to be learned from 9/11, it's that the sheeple are always willing to give up their rights if they can be scared into doing so.

http://www.naturalnews.com/030471_TSA_false_flag_operation.html


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9607606

[katnapped]

15. Definitely

Pistole needs some excuse to be able to finger women's va-jayjays

[FirstLight]

4. ya, it's probably a christmas present

'suspiciously wrapped'...right?

nice, then they will blow it up and tell the person taking said present to their family, "too bad"

or they will arrest said person for not wrapping their package better

:rolleyes:

[Boudica the Lyoness]

10. The dogs found it

"There was no immediate word on what the item was but officials said the evacuation was triggered by a state police K-9 unit dog picking up a scent near one of the pallets at the cargo area".

More dogs needed instead of the rape scans and sexual assaults.

[Locrian]

12. +1 for the dogs

and I'd rather have a dog sniff my ass than get groped by TSA.

[slackmaster]

16. OK, I'm changing my SWAG to "pastrami sandwich"

Dogs love pastrami sandwiches.

[redirish28]

11. First off if the problem is in the Cargo area why is TSA harrassing people in the airport

second of all. Logan Airport. Maybe we should rethink Logan airport itself. maybe that is the airport that is our weak link. Supposely that is where 9/11 started from.

[BlueJac]

17. Maybe they found an unused tampon........

thought it was a bomb.

[AnneD]

29. Don't pat me down...

or I'll pull this cord and we will all be sorry..:evilgrin:

[struggle4progress]

19. Cargo area at Boston airport evacuated

(2010-11-23)
(Reuters) -

BOSTON (Reuters) - A cargo area and about 25 staff at Boston's Logan International Airport were evacuated on Tuesday after the discovery of two suspicious packages, authorities said.

An airport spokesman said two duffel bags with Nigerian addresses were being X-rayed and examined by bomb-sniffing dogs ...

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1729184/US.News/Cargo.area.at.Boston.airport.evacuated

[struggle4progress]

36. No Bomb Found at Boston Airport After Evacuation

By LIZ ROBBINS
Published: November 23, 2010

... The package was examined by the state police bomb squad Tuesday afternoon, according to Matthew Brelis of Massport, the airport authority. X-rays indicated that the contents were harmless ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/us/24logan.html

[slackmaster]

47. Login is required - Was I right about it being a pastrami sandwich?

:crazy:

[struggle4progress]

48. Doesn't say what it was

[onecent]

22. Delta Airlines....crap I'm flying Delta tomorrow morning

from KC to Atlanta....Oh happy day!!! NOT!

[sarcasmo]

24. Cavity search, cavity search. TERRRA! TERRA! TERRRA! TERRA!

[Windy]

32. are you people seriously forgetting the kid with the bomb in his underwear?

if he hadn't chickened out, there would have been a plane load of dead people.

I think all this feigned outrage is absolutely ridiculous. Will you quit talking about this after the holiday when the media that is leading you around by the nose stops talking about it??????

[sarcasmo]

33. Roll over at the airports and you will get searched this way when you go to the library, the mall,

the concert.

[TheWatcher]

53. But we have to be SAFE.

It's all part of The New Freedom and Enhanced Democracy.

Why do you hate the Safety Bubble?

Why Do you Hate America?

Why Do you Hate Obama?

Why Do You Side With The Terrorists?

Why Aren't You a Safety Patriot?

Can't you just suck your thumb and submit like all the cool kids are doing?

You must be Al Qaeda.

GUARDS!

SEIZE HIM!

:sarcasm:

[frylock]

40. chickened out?!

it was a FAILED attempt. the bomb he made was ineffective. we're all shitting ourselves over a bomb that was never going to go off.

[Windy]

57. He got through security and if in fact he had a bit more explosive, it could have been disastrous.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal but I think to ignore the FACT that there are ingenious people out there bound and determined to cause tragedy is hiding your head in the sand.

I find the fact that even those with a liberal bent are so easily riled up and led to be disturbing.

You are all coming off like reactionary kooks. If you don't want to get scanned and or patted down, then don't fly.
I fly overseas all the time and frankly, I am conforted when I know everyone has been screened, that there is an air marshall on the plane and that the door to the cockpit is barricaded.

[Nihil]

64. Now go back and find out exactly *how* he "got through security".

> You are all coming off like reactionary kooks.

More than you & your pal upthread with your dripping trousers?


> I fly overseas all the time and frankly, I am conforted when I know
> everyone has been screened,
-> has no effect

> that there is an air marshall on the plane
-> has little effect (zero against bombers for example)

> and that the door to the cockpit is barricaded.
-> is the only genuinely beneficial change that has been implemented.


If you're that much of a wimp, I'm surprised you dare go abroad
to any of those foreign countries at all ...

:eyes:

[MineralMan]

28. Wait! I thought everyone was saying that they weren't checking

cargo. It appears that they are, doesn't it. It's hard to know what to believe these days. :sarcasm:

[TheWatcher]

52. Yes, maybe 20%.

The other 80% is wasted on theater.

[TheWatcher]

31. Remember that Conveniently Timed Event I spoke about yesterday?

TPTB want their Police State preserved, and they are willing to do anything to get the cowed, brainwashed Public to go along with it.

Face it, we no longer live in a Free Country.

And it's going to take a lifetime supply of salt for me to take ANYTHING these thugs say seriously.

[sarcasmo]

34. Exactly and plenty of people on this board will roll over and let them trample their 4th amendment

rights!

[TheWatcher]

35. It's very breathtaking and frightening to watch.

It reminds you of a time about 75 years ago.

We never thought it could happen here.

Welcome To history Repeating Itself.

Watch for more Conveniently timed Events, Coming to A Security Theater Near You.

[DFab420]

46. Yes because if I was a terrorist

I would never try to attack Americans during what is widely known as peak travel season. That would never seem like a simple effective idea.

It's all a plot by some giant corpo-fascist-big-brother-little-sister-weird-uncle-CIA-NSA fatcats to try and control us by patting us down and taking nudey pictures of us!!

Seriously? I am as suspicious as the next guy, but assuming every threat is faked to keep us scared is a bit too conspiratorial.

[TheWatcher]

49. You can mock, giggle, and snicker all you want.

You can also buy into any piece of Propaganda that is fed to you, and be a complete Go-Along with the Police State that continues to expand and unfold before you.

Invincible Ignorance can't be fought against.

Be a Good Little Citizen and Knock yourself out.

Even Tom Ridge admitted that Terror Alerts were used for Political Purposes and Political advantage during the last dictatorship.

The American People need to start connecting the dots, paying attention, following the money, and look at who benefits from all this crap.

Is every threat fake. Certainly not.

Do we have a precedent that has been set that threats are used and likely fabricated for Political purposes? Yes, we do.

Everytime there is an election around the corner, everytime they "need" the Public to be afraid, something seems to conveniently happen.

And it really doesn't seem to discriminate between party lines.

BOTH sides seem to like to get in on the fun.

Funny that.

you can believe whatever you want.

"I'm as suspicious as the next guy....."

I'm sure you are.

keep sleeping, and thinking the Invisible Bogeymen from Caves are out to get you.

it's the path of least resistance, and being lost in that false paradigm means all you have to do is rely on TPTB to keep you safe, no matter what the cost, and your little Bubble world will be just fine.

"It's all a plot by some giant corpo-fascist-big-brother-little-sister-weird-uncle-CIA-NSA fatcats to try and control us by patting us down and taking nudey pictures of us!!"

Great, another "I believe whatever accepted established group-think paradigm is put in front of me, and conveniently ignore everything else as "conspiracy kookery" and "Black helicopters" lemming.

Please, by all means go back to your Bubble, where Perception Management is Reality.

Good Day.

Viva Homeland!

:eyes: