J Hobbs wrote on April 21, 2009 11:36 PM: Hey Marine, Let me know if you have set up a defense fund. I'll send you some money for it.....SEMPER FI. Too many idiots running around....every clown with a security patch is a freaking big shot now! Whe you beat this rap based on your innocence?...make sure you file suit and get the jerks that accused you of the crime sent to Afganistan for a couple years!!!

Fair and Balanced Fred wrote on April 21, 2009 10:35 PM: Yes, I think some Fair and Balanced gremlins got in there and planted a grenade fuse and model rocket (igniters or engines?) in order to . . . ?

The Fair and Balanced backers of such a theory offer no equally contrived explanation as to why ANYONE would frame the Fair and Balanced Marine by planting a grenade fuse and model rocket components in his luggage (far apart from having a live magazine in his piece).

Such drivel is emblematic of the cloudiness of Fair and Balanced, AM radio logic.

Please keep an eye on the wacko right as well as any other wacko ideology.

JC wrote on April 21, 2009 10:23 PM: These items were clearly things that the movers wouldn't pack so he put them in his luggage. He didn't have any ill intent other than to keep his belongings rather than dispose of them. Stop making such a BFD about all of this. He is not a scapegoat for the failings of the TSA!

Patrick wrote on April 21, 2009 08:37 PM: I think the problem is that he declared the items to the airline not thinking he had to declare the items to TSA. Just because the airline said okay does not mean TSA says okay. TSA can over ride the airline opinion.

Just a few weeks ago I saw the TSA people in a heated argument over how to process luggage in their scanners at McCarren (Southwest). I stood there waiting for my luggage to be scanned because I have had trouble with TSA breaking into my luggage, and not properly securing the luggage afterwards. The TSA people were in a heated discussion over how to sort luggage, and how to use the scanning machine. Flying is just a pain, if only I could afford to fly in a private jet.

George wrote on April 21, 2009 08:23 PM: Timeranger
That's what I said to the wife. The airlines put his luggage into a non secured area under no ones control and then when they brought it back in they found the items. Las Vegas said they didn't see anything in his luggage so it must not have been there. Let him go and thank him for his service to our country.

Foolish Fed Fred wrote on April 21, 2009 08:14 PM: The TSA, DHS and Federal Gov is a joke. Anyone notice they're using private companies for some security activities at LAX?

Wasn't that names as one of the contributing factors which allowed 9/11?

Bunch of morons stealing our liberties due to their incompetence and foreign policy.

Allen wrote on April 21, 2009 05:18 PM: The bail is $2500 because there it isn't a big deal. According to earlier reports, the Marine declared the properly packed gun. Ammo is allowed in checked baggage.

The only issue here was model rocket engined, and the fuse from a grenade. The "infernal machine" was incapable of exploding, because it wasn't assembled, not could it be assembled in the state the items were in. Thus, it probably doesn't even qualify as an infernal machine.

The Marine's only crime was to bring model rocket engines in his luggage.

Support wrote on April 21, 2009 04:23 PM: he was freed on $2,500 bail? Obviously not a big deal. If TSA didn't stop him in Vegas, and his bags were only checked in Boston due to error on airlines part, could be a set up. Drop the charges, let the man go.

WALTHER PPK wrote on April 21, 2009 01:16 PM: The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects a right to keep and bear arms

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

meh wrote on April 21, 2009 01:07 PM: Or I wonder if they've considered the utter lunacy that has become contemporary America because more and more sheep are content to live behind the veil of perceived security at the very REAL expense of their liberty.

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