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

[Stephane Bakhos]

This kind of news seems to happen all to often, and that's only the cases 
we get to know about.

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Nicolas Sahlqvist wrote:

> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:14:20 +0100
> From: Nicolas Sahlqvist <nicco77 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] privacy at customs on airports
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> As stated from some forums you basically need a minor explosion to set of
> the explosives in question, but they would cause a plane to go down it
> seems. It is therefore a very irresponsible move from the Slovakian
> government, it shows a complete disrespect for their citizens..
>
>
> - Nicolas
>   PPI / PPSE member
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Thomas Burke <mrthomasjburke at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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