Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 22:00:12 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: biggest NCIS news of all time! References: <1647836400.736806466.284585.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 15:09:29 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-L55nlRgrwzd+Z+/KdjxAYnQ7FSKZ8GJ0DBCmymo7GT9fJ2ZhkCcnLJTF24xsscIXn7F15Lx3CIXtPIi!9GVEZvQDICHzBgeKQ0eQCbMklGu/M50FIIDgIIm41fKSvVTZJRprOTjBlAY3VoOOzNqVSnD9yIDS!kYU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2664 In article , danny burstein wrote: > In BTR1701 > writes: > > [snip] > > >I mean, imagine the reverse: would we put up with even our closest > >allies sending armed police onto our streets, physically arresting our > >citizens or storming their homes? Not for one goddam second would we > >tolerate that. > [snip] > > >(There were times when we the locals wouldn't allow us to be armed at > >all and the security environment was such that we weren't going to take > >no for answer. On a visit to Mexico with Bush, the Mexicans wouldn't > >allow any firearms, so DC flew in a package with every agent's > >diplomatic passport and handed our guns out to us on the day of the > >visit. That way we'd be armed but if any Mexican cop or official tried > >to jam up an agent, he'd have diplomatic immunity and the worst they > >could do would be to kick him out of the country.) > > hmmm... gotta see if I can find an update... > > Very roughly a decade ago a suitcase(?) containing > weapons belonging to a bunch of Israeli security > agents who'd be protecting their Prime Minister > got misplaced by.... the airline in the US. At least > that's the story that made it to the public. > > Where would I even start to look for info?..?? We never flew our weapons on a commercial airline. We put them in big haliburton cases and loaded them onto the huge C-17 military transport planes that fly in the armored limousines and SUVs.