[lbo-talk] If liquids are explosive, why are TSA reps dumping them into garbage cans at airports?

[B.]

[The public's yet to see any evidence the folks held
for the latest terror plot intended something
dastardly. But some folks seem terminally credulous,
like Agent Mulder's poster: 'I Want To Believe.' --B.]

Via the mighty Boing Boing!:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/10/if_the_liquid_could_.html

If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping
it in a crowd?

"xopl" asks a fair question:

So CNN is reporting: "Because the plot involved taking
liquid explosives aboard planes in carry-ons,
passengers at all U.S. and British airports, and those
boarding U.S.-bound flights at other international
airports, are banned from taking any liquids onto
planes."

And then they have the photo of the TSA guy dumping a
tub of confiscated possibly explosive liquids into a
garbage can in a crowd of people.

Figure that shit out for me.