The Home of the Free???

[NOGILLS2]

I wonder if we are free anymore? I just spent two hours trying to get two ink cartridges on board. We are loading two barges with chemicals at a plant in NOLA.

I had a technician at the gate of the plant and a deckhand on the levee and the plant finally allowed us to transfer cartridges. They wanted a fax listing of employees. Since we wanted to email a list but they did not have an email address.

The security guard could have inspected the package and allowed the tech to hand the cartridges to my hand but because of protocol. Finally the technician handed them to the guard and the guard handed them to the hand, who returned to the boat.

The funny part is if I wanted to blow up the plant my empty barges make much better bombs than ink cartridges, cause all you have to do is light a match and BOOM!!!!!

[Bobnoxous]

Stories like this are endless. Lots of security activity, but little real security and common sense. Appearances seem more important than substance. Substance requires using your brain. Appearances requires hiring a bunch of people with no real skills.

Sometimes these people are just incompetent. Sometimes they're on a power trip. And, because it's the government, there's no competitor you can go to.

When it's become a police state is a matter of opinion, but it's getting pretty bad now. When 9/12 happens, it'll get even worse. Makes me think about moving to a country that hasn't made so many enemies. :(