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		| Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop Are you suggesting that the new restrictions this week on carrying beverages on board were an empty gesture?
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  If he's not, I am.  
It could be that they've been wanting to do it for a long time, but knew it wouldn't go over well, and that they are taking this opportunity to push it through.  That's the most generous assessment I can give, though.  If it's really that easy to transport chemicals that (a) are hard to screen for and (b) can be mixed to make a pretty damn powerful bomb, then they should have been banning all of this stuff all along, because it's a method that would seem to be highly likely to be used.