February 21, 2006

PORTS OF ENTRY

I wish everyone would shut the fuck up about P&O selling their 6 U.S. port facilities to a United Arab Emirates holding company, already. My company sold off our world class ports facilities in Hong Kong, China, Germany, Venezuela, and elswhere to the same DP World two years ago. Big deal.

They're a holding company. The facilities will be run by 95% Americans, ILA labor and longshoremen. Doubt you'll see an Ayrab anywhere around. The few times Arabs embrace a capitalist model that doesn't involve oil and everyone wants to crucify stone them.

Here's the deal: don't worry about the security at the port of discharge. You need to worry about the security at the port of loading. I don't care if Uncle Sam or Paul Bunyan or Clint Eastwood owns Port Newark Terminal. That's not going to stop a dirty bomb loaded in a container in Abu Dhabi. Think about it.

Posted by Velociman at February 21, 2006 9:24 PM
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Damned right. Once it's here, too damned late. THis has been a security hole forever already

Posted by: og at February 21, 2006 10:07 PM

Spoken like a true Logistics Professional. Really.

We are well and truly fucked: you know that, don'tcha?

Posted by: Elisson at February 21, 2006 10:45 PM

I agree that the bigger problem already exist, but it is foolish to let a company known to have ties with terrorist to gaurd our ports. I have always been a "W" fan, but this one really is stupid. Even his own republican party are against it. Later.

Posted by: John at February 22, 2006 12:48 PM

What's fucked is Islam and the Arabs. The have funcked themselves by tolerating the poison of their fellow jihadists. Islam is now a poisoned religion and all those screaming, angry Arabs is now the face of the Arab world. All the bigotry is their own damn fault.

Posted by: WitNit at February 22, 2006 12:50 PM

What's fucked is Islam and the Arabs. The have fucked themselves by tolerating the poison of their fellow jihadists. Islam is now a poisoned religion and all those screaming, angry Arabs is now the face of the Arab world. All the bigotry is their own damn fault.

Posted by: WitNit at February 22, 2006 12:50 PM

So let's single out some trading business-type goat-fuckers and throw them in the box because they look like terrorists? That sounds real smart.

Bigotry's no one's fault but the bigot. That's how you tell it from common sense.

Posted by: spongeworthy at February 22, 2006 4:05 PM
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