[pp.int.general] privacy at customs on airports

[Thomas Burke]

It is a very shocking and disturbing development. I dont know how
volatile the explosives given to the last person were or what level of
explosion would have occurred. Such things are a bit too worrying to
think about. If they had gone off would we have received the same
halfhearted "oh did we do a bad thing?" response?

2010/1/6 Nicolas Sahlqvist <nicco77 at gmail.com>:
> This is outrageous! How can a countries police force put there own citizens
> unwillingly into harms way? I found more articles on the story:
> http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/probe-continues-into-slovak-explosives-incident-440883.html
> http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/ireland/slovakia-apologises-for-explosives-find-440834.html
> http://government.zdnet.com/?p=6728
> The Slovak government has to do a lot more then apologise and express
> "profound regret" over the incident. I am very interested in how this
> unfolds why I CC'd the Slovak PP for any feedback they may have on this
> story.
>
> - Nicolas
>   PPI / PPSE member
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On a related note, yesterday I went to sleep just after reading the
>> following shocking piece of news:
>>
>> http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/2319256/Slovak-Police-Planted-Explosives-On-Air-Travelers
>>
>> "Slovakian Police have planted explosives on 8 unsuspecting air
>> travelers. Seven were stopped by airport security, including one man
>> arrested and held upon arriving at a Dublin airport. Unbelievably, one
>> innocent traveler made it home with 90 grams of explosives, and had
>> his flat surrounded by the police and bomb squad."
>>
>> I mean, how can they do such a thing with a straight face? They could
>> have died. A coat was enough for Jean Charles de Menezes to be shot
>> seven times in the head. And yet the reports into the shooting of an
>> innocent men found no members of the police guilty and security
>> measures in the UK have continued to become more invasive. These
>> people on the other hand were carrying explosives in an airport!
>>
>> Testing of security systems? It sounds more like state terrorism to
>> me. If the goverment want to do a test of airport security systems
>> then fine but use someone who has agreed to do it. I hope those in
>> charge of this operation go to jail.
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Eduardo Robles Elvira (member of PIRATA, Spain)
>>
>> PD: Any Pirate Party in Slovenia?
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