Let's just not allow anything onboard and put an end to this nonsense.

It is starting to get really bad out there. I have read of terrorist acts in different parts of the world via tv and newspaper.Personally,I believe that we should beef up security everywhere,airports,malls,anywhere there is an abundance of people.

There was a time when being claustrophobic and drinking water was just part of flying the unfriendly skies. Nowadays, you're automatically branded a terrorist. Don't try to complain about problems on the flight, though. Sounds like some flight attendants were having a bad day.

do we have any screening equipment for people who are JUST DOWNRIGHT STUPID? UGH!

Wow, so much for the land of the brave. Has the entire country gone crazy and descended into paranoia?

Fear! Fear! Fear!

Good God, has fear clouded our judgment so much that we can't use a few critical thinking brain cells before diverting an entire airplane over a 47 year-old clostrophobic woman with a jar of *petroleum jelly*.

this is just sad. A 48 year old Vermont woman with a jar of Vaseline and a bottle of water results in a plane being diverted with fighter jet escorts?! Oh, and "literature in a foreign language"! What the hell is wrong with us?

It seems that we are getting a little carried away. I am very much for protecting our country and our loved ones that reside in it and abroad. But, come on if we're going to suspect someone everytime he/she has a bottle of water on an airplane or a tube of lip gloss..........we're going to turn into a country who believes guilty before innocent. That is not right! I feel the airline industry can not continue in this direction, otherwise I believe they will lose a lot of passengers to trains, buses, cars, etc. I hope that one day we can all live in peace, but for now can't they find a better way to control the safety of the airlines??

Life is too short to worry about every nutcase that needs attention. Why is this woman headline news? Move along, people, there's nothing to see here.

Threatening to pee in a sink while in posession of Vaseline does not a terrorist make. Fear has made us completely lose OUR minds.

Fighter planes?

You mean we actually burned jet fuel for this lady? I mean, what happens if someone brings aboard a particularly deadly-looking spork and threatens to poop in a doggie bag? Will that one get AWACS support?

It sounds like the author is trying to influence opinion of the reader that this woman is a terrorist by mentioning she had a document written in a foreign language. This statement has nothing to do with the story if the contents of the document are not known. The average reader's thoughts are driven to believe that this woman is a terrorist by the author using the phrase, "extremist nature" to describe the document of which it is also stated nothing is known about it. While some people catch this as an attempt to control our minds, most do not notice and allow thier thoughts to gravitate towards the intended influence. The media knows exactly what they are doing, but they don't care because certain people within the organization are enjoying the many perks associated with working for those in power, even if it means many people are being hurt by their actions. I hope they realize that life is short, and they will have to answer for greed once its over.

All this, and STILL there are people without homes in New Orleans. The USA is probably the laughingstock of the world.

Terrorist scare? oh please.. why is everything a terrorist scare with americans?. the US government and media just love to frighten the hell out of it's citizens about terrorism, its overrated

I'm just wondering why there were no Air Marshals on board this flight to stop this kind of thing from happening...

While we are focusing on airplanes our enemys are progressing in other areas such as foreign owned motels, gas stations and convenient stores. Also, if they can create a bomb out of common used products, Ban it from the airplanes!!! IF you are stupid enough to go anainst that regulation and jeopordise everyone, you should automatically be banned from air travel.

TERRORISTS WIN AGAIN................

Take this report off your site! It is innacurate and your news is quite biased

The remedy for terrorism is to stop being afraid. After decades being ruled by dictators and having foreign countries using their homeland as a battleground and , the terrorists are unafraid. They have nothing to live for except the virgins and martyrs of their imagined paradise. We, on the other hand, live in the paradise they imagine and our fear of losing it is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Now let's see... the definition of a terrorist is one who want's their victims to feel terror....

And with the terror, let's throw in a little paranoia.

Yup, they're accomplishing what they set out to do.

Let's get real!!

Until ALL the facts are in, we
don't know the degree of threat or the innocence of this woman. Better to er on the side of caution than to have lives lost. One wonders how quiet the critics would be if nothing was done and the latter occurred?