(cbs) Crying Wolf On Terrorism?

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Crying Wolf On Terrorism?

(CBS/AP) Concerned with terrorism threats in the air and on the ground, the British government delayed a London-to-Washington flight for three hours – after canceling the flight altogether for two days in a row.

Jan. 4, 2004
CBS News Correspondent Joie Chen reports Flight 223 only carried half it's typical passenger load, raising the questions: How many more flights can the airlines afford to cancel? How long can this level of scrutiny and security go on?

Even as they demonstrated stepped up security at their airports, foreign governments expressed frustration with U.S. demands for greater scrutiny of their flights.

Terrorism expert Paul Beaver tell Chen, "We've got to the stage in Western Europe where nobody actually takes any notice of American alerts anymore because there's so many of them."

More: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/30/terror/main590633.shtml

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1. How long can this go on?

Until the art of walking is reconstituted as the 'safest way to travel'. Well, okay, horse drawn carriages for politicians on the stump.

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2. fed2dneck to the media: You just found out?!

We at DU knew it all along that these "terror alerts" are designed for no other purpose than to frighten, terrorize, and intimidate the American public into submission, and from criticizing the unconstitutional, criminal government tactics which brought about this terrorist scare to begin with.

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