Michael A. Terrell wrote:
He'sDoneItAgain wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
He'sDoneItAgain wrote:
ian field wrote:

She probably isn't still in Portugal, she could be anyplace
by now - can you guarantee the US isn't where she's been
taken?
Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Don't you think that any airport, port or train station in
the area is on the lookout for her? How would she have made
it to the US?
You ask "How would she have made it to the US?"

So, you think that a four year old child can buy a ticket for an
international flight, and flies by herself to the US? A child
that young has to travel with an escort, and unless she was
unconscious you'd think she would be screaming her head off that
she had been kidnapped. Enough of any medication to make her
sleep, yet not kill her would wear off on a long international
flight, long before the plane landed.
Well, Duh, who says they have to give it to her at the *beginning*
of the flight? They wouldn't give it to her a half hour (or
whatever) before landing? Or at the beginning and then at the end?

So, they are going to carry a sedative that requires a medical
professional to administer

....and who said it would require a "medical professional"? To swallow a
pill or swallow a pill dissolved in a can of soda pop?

and security isn't going to see it? Yawn.

Remember, I suggested this could be given in flight half an hour before
landing, so what "security"? The overworked stewardess is going to see a
kid drinking a can of pop?

Not too much rocket science required here.

Uh, maybe the same way the TB guy got into the country--right
past those ace border guards. :-(
Are you really that dense? There was no procedure in place for
reporting him,
Or are *you* that dense? No procedures in place? Bzzzzt... Wrong!

His name and passport number *was* in the border patrol computer.
It *came up* when they scanned his passport at the point of entry.
The border guard saw it on his computer. So, yes, there WAS a
"procedure in place".

However, the problem was that even though the "procedure" flagged
the guy, the border guard decided "he didn't look sick" so let him
go through. Gee, I didn't realize border guards were required to
have a medical degree ( or that you could tell if someone was sick
just by looking at them).

Billions spent on Homeland "Security" and it still boils down to
the rocket scientist manning the gate... :-(


That's not what was reported on any news I've seen or heard.


Well, that's *exactly* what WAS reported on the NBC Nightly News (TV)
and CBS Radio news here...

1) It WAS in the computer.

2) The computer DID pick it up.

3) The guard at the gate let him go anyway.

Sounds like a "procedure in place" to me (at least items 1 and 2).

That's the facts, Jack!

In any event, for me at least, the thread has gone on long enough. My
apologies to the group for the OT.