First it's mascara, now it's gel bras? Are you kidding me?!? If this is the way it's going to be from now on, the terrorists have already won the "war." This country should not be reacting to every terrorist plot or scare - we should be on the offense. It's ridiculous to confiscate a bottle of water from an 80-year-old african-american grandmother and make her take off her shoes when all terrorists are Muslim! As the wise and wonderful Jay Severin says, "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim!" I'm all for racial profiling to help keep our air travel safe (and wise).

I can see this new rule triggering a new wave of patriotic young male volunteers willing to risk all to protect the country in the dangerous game of breast inspection.

Mam.....err is that a gel filled bra you are wearing? May I inspect? Get the hell out of my way....I'm going to check for myself!

What's next ladies, we can't be on our periods when we get on a plane cos they'll be banning sanitary pads and tampons, you just watch.

"not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim!"

Really? Was the Oklahoma City bombing committed by a Muslim? How about the attacks on abortion clinics?

BLu,
Did you forget about Timothy McVeigh?

I can't help but think that this level of security is going to hurt the airline industry as a whole.

ok 1st no makeup and now no bras? whats our world coming to?

This is just ridiculous! If you can fashion a weapon out of the materials in your bra then let's face it - anything can become a weapon. Stop the terrorists before they get to the airport. Stop persecuting people who just want to travel comfortably. This stuff is going to kill the airline industry for good and worsen our economy.

I am a Palestinian. You Americans dont seem to understand the root causes of the conflict between the west and Islam. The picture is not as naive and ridicolus as your president tries to paint for you. All this conflict is not just beacuse we are "freedom hater" who oppose your style of living. That is ridicolus. How is a man living in a cave in Afganistan offended by the way an Amircan family lives thousands of miles away !

The root causes that your president struggle to hide from you is the the unfair and unjust American policies in the middle east by providing total support for Israel. You Americans grieve about 9/11, we at the Arab world have had our 9/11 in palestine where 4000 people were killed by Israel at least 50% children. We have had our 9/11 in Lebanon where 1000 civilians mostly children, have been killed last month. We have had our 9/11 in Iraq where, according to your president, 30000 civilians have been killed since the war broke out. These are the main causes of what you call terrorism.

"Persecuting"??? I think the correct word would be "protecting."

Re: Gel Bras...next is implants...

That should be interesting !!

You should clarify that- "Women of Middle Eastern decent in their late teens to ealry 30's who speak broken, heavily accented English should not wear gel bras."

Somw women have been going without make-up and bras for years. So why scream now? I don't mind being screened as long as it keeps me safe. And I don't believe all terrorists are Muslims either.

Thought you may need to know what not to bring on your next flt.
shar & Jac

Folks...it's just a bra. A vane attempt at looking better. By no means a necessity on a plane. Let's get real. If some crazy woman blows up a plane with her gel bra...everyone would be screaming "Why didn't the FBI, CIA, all the people who are paid to anticipate this - think about gel bras?!?!" - This just means that women have to resort back to good old fashioned padding.

It's rather funny... we should be pro-active and profile and chase terrorists! But when a country does this very same thing we condemn them and force a "peace treaty" on them to stop.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has been in place since 1978 and still not "peace".

The UN in Cyprus is a bigger joke... there are serving military members with the UN who are second and in some cases third generation Peace Keepers in Cyprus.

What does it take to get it right? Dispand the UN and let countries defend themselves.

Are we checking the guys to see if they are wearing gel jock straps? This is absolutely ridiculous. Soon we will all be flying naked.

Why do people awalys have to complain? If you are going to complain about how you can't wear your bra's would you rather have the plane riding on get blown up? People complain and complain to the people trying to keep them safe and did anyone ever think that mabye if the country as a whole was more understanding of muslims and other religons the world would'nt hate us and people would'nt be trying to kill us daily? To make a long story short why can't we all just get along?

I am wondering how they can tell if you are wearing a gel bra or not anyway. Honestly they look the same as a padded bra and how do you know if that's not just her size. So next are they going to tell women they can't wear bras at all. Oh my goodness that would be scarry..... More men would travel that's for sure, just for the show. :0) I don't think that the terrorists have won and I am thankful that they are trying to protect us, but honestly... The person just b/f said it correctly. Anything can become a weapon.

In 6 months, we will all be boarding planes in the nude w/ no carry-on bags.

What the heck are gel bras and exactly what kind of threat do they pose? Can you make a bomb out of them? This just sounds wacky to me. We've lost our minds.

It's nice to know people have the freedom to type without education. BLu, even if what you posted was remotely accurate, Muslims are people who practice a particular religion and not an ethnicity. People from the United States, Middle East, Indonesia, Europe, etc. are Muslim. How do you plan to pick them out again?????

All the complaints about security measures, and yet, if America sends troops to Afghanistan or Iraq to fight these terrorists, America is always considered the "bad guy".

I know... it's amusing and funny. Gel bras, of all things. But one little, laughable, step at a time we embrace the "comfort" of a nice, secure, police state.
Our phones, purchases, browser searches, and e-mails are monitored AND now you can't wear gel bras. It's just a funny little step...

Wake up America. The govt knew since 1994 that binary liquid bombs were a possibility and there were no liquid restrictions for 12 years. Why? Because you are being played and conditioned. Wake up. Next your speech will be limited. Then you will be searched for liquids at police state check lanes. Speak out now.

Wow, racisim has run a muck.

Sign in Airport in the near future: "Please remover your belt, shoes, jewlery, eye glasses....ah, hell....just take off EVRYTHING and go through security butt naked!"

Sooner or later, a terrorist will pack his rectum with C4 then go to the lavatory and try and blow up the plane. It will then come down to everyone having a rectal exam before boarding a plane. This is getting way ridiculous! With all the new security measures it will definitely damage the already economically fragile airline industry.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WHEN SOMEONE FIGURES OUT HOW TO MAKE A BOMB OUT OF URIN, GUM AND PAPER? I PERSONALLY THIN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY IS DOOMED EXCEPT FOR PRIVATE AIR CHARTER OPERATIONS.

This is getting way out of hand. Panicking and creating mass hysteria is not the way to prevent terrorism. Everyone needs to CALM DOWN. Banning things on flights isn't going to deter an extremist--there will always be a way. You think that with the technology today, a baby or water bottle, mascara or gel bra is the only threat? What about eyeglasses? Pacemakers? Jewelry? Where does the paranoia stop? *slaps face and grabs shoulders* Get a hold of yourselves!

"YOU MUST CHILL!"--John Cusak as Lloyd Dobbler, Say Anything (1988)

"All terrorists are Mulsims." Let's see here. Timothy McVeigh- not. Certain elements of the Basque Separatist Movement - not.

The last 35 to 40 years has seen a lot of terrorism around thw world...ever hear of those Bader Mienhof characters?

Maybe to most Americans, terrorism doesn't matter at all if it's directed against someone else. Perhaps that is why the majority of Americans are neither psychology nor phyically prepared.

In reference to the Timothy McViegh and the other things that were referred to, yes, there are crazy people that want to murder for various reasons. You will have that anywhere. But how often do things like that happen? Terrorism is an on going thing every day of our lives and it will be until the end of time.

What about gel breast impants? A suicide female bomber could have her breasts enalrged with gel implants that contain an explosive.
She find some way of setting herself off. And depending upon the size of the impalnts, the explosion could be quite powerful. But how does one control for bombs-in-boobs? Hoow do security people tell if the woman's breasts are real or have gel filled implants?

First of all, not all terrorists are muslim. Second, Islam is a religion, not a race. Anyone of any race can choose to follow Islam and to commit Islamic Jihad. Let's not make the situation worse by pointing fingers at the color of someone's skin.

How about we just vote the morons who got us into this mess out of office!

I just got back from traveling in the US with my daughter - she's 4 years old and the size of a 6 year old. They threw out her juice and dumped her sippy cups of mlk. Can you believe this?? Then the TSA got a nice glimpse with the rest of the line of the feminine products I was carrying. THEN, a love note in my luggage from Memphis to Mobile. Then on the way back, my diaper bag was searched, publicly. I'd like to see the look on the TSA people's kids faces when they're standing in line and the TSA throws THEIR milk and juice out and the kid cries. It's heartbreaking. NO CHILD deserves to be treated like that. This is way out of hand. Because my 4 year old COULD BE MacGyver, right??

Strip naked and prepare for cavity search!!!

Didn't you guys see Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged me? :)

Ahh... so that's Victoria's secret... Wonder(if it's a bomb)-bra.

For terrorists, the concept of explosive laden bras is genius! I'm surprised they hadn't thought of it sooner. Us too for that matter. Having to screen passengers for explosive gel bras would be time consuming and embarrassing, and I don't think the airports really want the grief that'll come with it.

I have heard enough -- this is just ludicrous. What's next on the list - implants?

I am sure there are a lot of American people who feel as I do that it is time to completely stop flying and let my money power convinence the authorities that removal of our Civil Liberities (including the right to choose what type of cloting we wear)is outrageous as well as a violation of our Constutional rights.

Isn't there someone who will purchase security screening equipment that can actually tell the difference betwee jelly and explosives.

No bra? No makeup? I suppose I should travel more often I'd feel right at home! Lets all go to the airport in just our robes and slippers...do you think they'd let us on the planes like that?

Have you all forgotten the Columbine High School massacre???? If you are ready to accept racial profiling "in the fight against possible terrorists", then you better be ready to have young, teenage, pimpled, white kids profiled and looked as potential threats as well!!!!!!!!!!

What, it is not the same, you say?? oh, right, I forgot that we whites are above the rules that we create for "the rest"

I agree w/ Blu. If this is what traveling has come to, haven't the damn terrorists already won? It sure the hell makes me not want to travel anymore.

What's next? No underwear?

Apparently the boobs running our National Security Agency now want to scrutinize more of their own.

REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER

Maybe they should just ban underwear! Or ban clothes! That seems to be the next logical step.

I'm willing to do whatever is needed, wait in 6 hour lines, wear a different bra, wait until a flight attendant gives me a soda on the plane, whatever is needed. Unfortunately we live in a world with crazy people and extra measures have to be taken to be safe, then so be it.
Maybe we need to start supporting our president and the war and let our military do their jobs! Then maybe we can go to the airport and not have to worry about all this stuff. Until then people need to stop complaining and start helping out, pack all the stuff in your checked luggage and take aboard only what is absolutely needed. Maybe if we all help out flying would be more comfortable, and SAFE!

This is just insane. Technically anything could be used as a bomb. Are they going to make us travel naked next? Who knows.

-And to you Blu, when you bring up and idiotic argument at least make sure it has some relevance to the current topic.

Excuse me for being a little rude and or comical, but isn't there a premium air service for flying nude that we could all enjoy today? I think it's called "Naked-Air.com".

What is all the fuss about. Bottom line for this old cowhand is this:
I would rather be searched 347 times than blown up once..

.Wake UP

Lets see if I've got this right. Timothy McVeigh (caught and put to death) and abortion facilities attacks equals the murderous attacks by Muslims that in one instance killed 3,000 Americans , who also video taped the slicing method of be-heading of innocent people in the name of their god. I guess according to your comparison we should be using security at airports looking for possible abortion bombers and potential Timothy McVeighs'. Give me a break.

I am glad they are checking people like they are. If you dont want to go through security to save your life then dont get an airline ticket. I would rather have them inspect everything and be safe. These terrorists are getting smarter and we need to be more on guard. It is not only Muslim people who are terrorists.

What about breast implants?

Hmmmm... "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim!" Wow guess Oaklahoma was really done by Muslims and not a bunch of white males. All the Black Panthers were Muslims, as were the S.L.A. (Patty Hearst)? The list goes on, it is not only Muslims that are terrorist.

I hearby volunteer to personally inspect every bra! ;> Seriously though, let's quit letting the terrorists win and start aggressively rooting them out. Start by putting all terrorist supporters on notice that we will not only freeze any available assets, but that we will bomb them into a sheet of glass if we find them supporting those attacking us. Ghengis Khan knew how to fight a war, perhaps we've forgotten or gotten too soft.

To Blu,
You are saying that we should look for muslims. I must disagree, as I believe you are referring to Arabs. The largest population of Muslims aren't Arab at all but Indonesian.
Next, if you think they can't get people who aren't Arab to complete these terrorist attacks, you are only kidding yourself. Racial profiling is a slippery slope that is a knee jerk reaction to fear. We all wish that bad guys wore black and good guys wore white, but that is not the case. I know it makes people feel safer to be able to easily identify terrorists (i.e. they are all Arabs) however, this is not the case. A terrorist can be anyone. Timmothy McVeigh anyone.

Let's put more money into advanced screening and working on keeping the bad guys out of our country. Frankly, to Amy's post...I'm not sure what supporting a war in Iraq is doing to ensure my safety in the air?

Ha ha ha ha... so now we'll know who's pretending to be more than they really are.

This is from a woman that gets checked all the time, because my breast are larger than normal (42DDs). They think I might be hiding something. What's there is what GOD gave me naturally.

Gee....I wonder if the Muslim countries we fly out of are checking us with equal security. Yeah right. Tell the Liberals we're the good guys.

I don't want to be blown-up, but I would like to be able to comfortable on a plane, with whatever I need. And while I don't believe that all Muslims are terrorists or evil, I'm inclined to give a second look to those of Middle Eastern descent. I'm not saying it's right, but racial profiling is a must. However, I did remind a relative of mine about the Oklahoma bombing and the white American male responsible. I know that anybody is capable of being a killer, and that we need to look at everyone. And isn't that what the security at airports is doing? I believe that white Americans, as well as Arab-Americans, are subject to the same baggage rules onboard airlines.

Hey, how about batteries. I work in the "battery" field and for past ten years it was known (and tested) that batteries can be very explosive... We should not allow any electrical / battery powered devices

As we have seen, the terrorist's values on life (regardless of ethnic group) encourage them to sacrifice their own for the sake of their cause. Why then should we think they would stop at explosive gel bras? If one is going to die for the cause anyway, why would they not consider explosive gel breast implants (augmentation)? How in the world could the TSA prevent carnage in the air should such concealment become an operational alternative? Where does all this madness end?

I'd like to see someone try to blow up a flight that I'm on after I've been waiting to board for three hours and strip searched and allowed no carry ons, etc, etc.... Be real, alot of ticked off people would be fighting back... if they aren't then we're really in trouble. Call us the American Middle East where a couple of gangs run our policy about everything from how to dress to how to talk. Anyone remember the Boston Tea Party?? You know when the taxpayers actually got together and fought for ...freedom? Not shackled by fear.

Don't look for a terrorist on an airplane, look for them in White House.

From what I hear, El Al does do religious profiling, interviews each passenger individually, and passes all luggage through a decompression chamber. Whatever you think of it, it clearly works.

It's an unfortunate reality. You will have to watch out for the occasional terrorist that doesn't fit the profile (ex: the terrorist's wife), but give me a break: terrorism attacking the US airlines ALL comes from the Islamic world. And when was the last time you heard of a right-wing white supremacist group hijacking a plane? It's not the US's problem what the statistics are because we are not creating them.

We have angered many Islamic countries over the course of decades, have we not? People can't constantly state that they support our destruction while simultaneously claiming that the actual incidents of Islamic terrorism against us are actually plots created by Mossad. (uh...syrian man tries to put his pregnant wife on an el-al plane with a bomb...for Israel? if you believe that then you will believe anything at all.)

If El Al can manage to fly for decades without major incidents (and you KNOW that more terrorists have tried something against El Al than any other airline), then we should be asking ourselves why are we misallocating our time against non-threats.

Well, you people have certianly beat this one to death. Any more ideas and they could write a book on possible ways to create a liguid bomb and smuggle it onboard. I wonder how many terrorist have read this and thought...dooh!!! Why didn't we think of that one. The cavity bomb....now that's a kicker right there. I'm sure we'll se that one take place.

I can hear it now. The mothers of American telling their children, "look you're going on a plane make sure you have on clean underwear".

No one forces anyone to travel by plane. You can always drive, take the bus or take the train. As for going overseas, there is a ship at every seaport.

Welcome to prison folks. Please submit to a full body search before leaving your home.

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
- Benjamin Franklin

Well, what stop someone from filling up a pair of silicon breast implants? Will that be banned. I'm all for safety measurements in airports, however, I do think asking a female to take a sip of breast milk to get it on a plane is a little too much.

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't there cars that people can drive to get where they are going? Not only that but isn't there also buses and trains? As for going overseas, there is a new kind of transportation. It is call a ship. If you do not want to apply by the rules of the airport, you have a bus, car, train or ship to travel with. Think about it!!

No bras? No problem!!!!

Darn, I'll mis those gel bras!

There is now way such restrictions will ever make you safe. If you ban gel bras they can use gel breast implants. If you strip search everyone, including all cavities, gel packets could be surgically implanted.

The only solution - work for justice, so that disenfranchised people do not choose this option.

Or as Benjamin Franklin said " Those who would trade liberty for a little security deserve neither"

This is just another ruse to make flying a hassle so that *ordinary* people fly less. it started with Richard Reid, who I think was a government plant played by an actor. Look what resulted, the govt getting everyone to take off their shoes.

If someone were truly determined to blow up a plane, they'd store the explosive in their body (swallowed, or inserted up their butts) and detonate it or put it on a timer. After all, they know they will die anyway.

Amazing the restrictions. Just last year, a tiny screw driver was taken from us (you know to fix eye glasses and fishing reels) because it was a tool that apparently could take apart a 767...yet I managed to get through security with a serrated fishing knife I had in my purse because we had been fishing - amazing..but i will wear no bra if I have to...so long I get the males to check it..

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TERRORIST PEOPLE LEARN YOUR STUFF THIS IS INSANE MADNESS BS
1st for the people who disagree with this ur right for disagreeing but wrong for ur reasons why
and people who agree your just plain stupid

Where do you folks think profiling comes from...? Someones imagination... NOT... it comes from watching who does what... if you look like a terrorist, then clean up your act otherwise, suffer the consequences! It's your choice and it's your fault if you don't pay attention to what is going on here. People are killing each other because of hate. Profiling is a simple means to an end!

About safety on buses and trains -and may be ships? remember Madrid, London and India.
Do no bring more ideas to terrorists, please!

BUT WAIT ... WHAT ABOUT SALINE FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS!!!??? What if the fluid was replaced ... kinda taking the Austin Powers Fembot concept to another level :)

No matter how many rules or restrictions are made, a way can be found to circumvent them. To the criminal mind, it's just a challenge to succeed.

[airport security]
Right this way folks. Through the scanner.Ahh whats that Mr Passenger you trying to bring a book into the USS of A. You communist. All books are banned here. Take him away .......

Meanwhile in UK......
People where not allowed to bring any fluids / canisters on board plans for fear of binary explosives. But they all asked to dump them into disposal bins ........... so if there where explosives in any of bottles any potential explosion would happen in the airport rather than on a plan .......
hmmm who thought of this way of great idea of disposal ?

in january, i was forced to remove my nipple piercings before boarding a flight in denver. even though i was being inspected by a female, the guard refused me the option of showing the piercings, despite the fact that there was an empty examination room. i was told to remove them or i would be removed from the airport. i eventually complied. once the jewelry was out, they did not even inspect it. the entire experience was extremely violating and pointless.

Its amazing to see the arrogance of Americans. To state that "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim" is a gross example of your sheer and utter hatred for everything other than yourselves. For the country that has the highest murder rate, violent crimes and gun-related crimes etc... in the western world, what gives you the inherent right to dictate what others in the world should be doing. It is no wonder that the world looks upon the US as "ugly (fat) Americans." I have never had a desire to visit your toilet of a country, nor will I ever have a desire to.

What do you think about the racism card being played when all terrorists are muslim and not all muslims are terrorists is being called. I think that the UK and american public have been treated to enough of the problem for now. Someone on one of the chat lines said it was a matter fo time before someone swallows a safe with a liquid in it and goes on a plane. What next ban all photographic equipment?

I live within 100km of the US border in Canada...and the arrogance Americans send out is like radiation...it hurts to live so close to you

Like so many other facts presented by the authorities, here's one that just doesn't ring true. Why would terrorists trying to discard evidence--peroxide-filled baby bottles with fake bottoms--bother to be environmentally conscious and put them in recycling bins, which must be sorted by hand for processing? That makes no sense! If I were throwing away evidence to hide it, I'd place it in a refuse container with a bag that would be tied up and never opened again. These little details really make me wonder whether we are being spun by two governments that are desperate for some good terror news to keep their electorates in line.