Extra Security Measures Make Us Less Safe
Dec 29th, 2009 by David Anderson
The system failed not because of a lack of safeguards, but because of the unwillingness of those who are charged with safeguarding us to follow basic procedures. Even by standards of probable cause, the failed Detroit Flight bomber should have been searched. He not only fit every behavioral profile, he came with a warning from his own father that he wanted to harm U. S. interests and had become radicalized. He was in our data base. How will telling me that I can’t use the restroom for an hour change that?
These foolish measures will divert resources that could actually make us safer, inconvenience all travelers, threaten the viability of part of the airline industry (jobs), and bring us closer to police state control. To add insult to injury, if followed they would have made us less safe by making it less likely that someone would be able to stop a terrorist in time. The fact that some refuse to realize that we are in a dangerous world does not mean that I should be treated like a criminal. It is time for Americans to demand that they do their job and allow us to live our lives.
Our foe Al Qaeda is taking the fight seriously. It is time that we do.
“Now, open up and say ahhhh..you say you coughed-up a golf ball sized piece of bloody phlegm? Hmmm…everything seems okay now; give us a call in six months.”
Neopolitan-o (Homeland Security chick) said the system worked? Well…I take exception to that because:
1.) The man was on the terrorist watch list
2.) The materials to make the bomb were able to make it onto the plane
3.) The bomber was able to assemble the bomb on the plane
4.) The bomber was able to detonate the bomb
5.) The only reason the device didn’t succeed is because the materials became unattached (they were attached to his privates and his legs and it is assumed that somehow his “package” shifted during travel thereby causing the materials to become disconnected and then causing the loud pop, fizzle and subsequent fire to break out)
6.) 2 regular Dutch citizens were the ones that jumped the guy when he detonated the device
Is there ANYTHING in the above list that makes YOU think that the system WORKED? I’m unable to find anything in the list. Oh, and let’s not forget that Dearborn, Michigan is the fastest growing and largest concentration of Muslims in America. Likewise, Amsterdam is the fastest growing Muslim city in Europe and is nearly a majority of Muslim citizens. Coincidence?
And by the way you stupid progressive idiots…he’s not an “alleged terrorist” and he didn’t “alledgedly attempt to detonate an explosive device”. He IS a terrorist, trained by Al-Qaeda and he DID detonate an explosive device. The only saving grace is that he was inept and his device failed to succeed in it’s mission to blow up the damn plane. It popped, fizzled and probably ripped off his junk…burned the plane and the passengers (dutch citizens) who subdued him. Morons.
The editorial page cartoon in today’s News Journal, of an obviously Muslim terrorist being allowed to pass in the interest of political correctness, and a little old grandma being screamed at and stopped, was a perfect depiction of the foolishness that goes on in government-controlled airline security.
When’s the last time a news story broke that someone was actually caught by all these extra airport security measures? Sure, their primary purpose is deterrence, and maybe they hush it up rather than scare everybody, but just once I’d like to see a headline like, “TSA Search Finds Grenade in Gucci Loafer.” In fact, you’re more likely to see a local investigative reporter smuggling an anti-tank missile through a metal detector, complete with hidden camera footage of bored-looking TSA people reading magazines or eating lunch. To my memory, the last person caught with a weapon at an airport was Jimmy Johnson. Either train these people to connect the dots (situational profiling, if you will) or let me keep my shoes on.
Oh, and it’s my firm belief that the ban on liquids was actually to keep passengers from BYOB onto the plane, forcing us to pay $15 for a Scotch on the rocks.
God forbid they ever get nuclear underpants.
TSA stands for Thousands Standing Around and the entire TSA effort is mostly theater.
However, the larger theme is equal scrutiny equals unequal results.
The Obama folks now have two terrorist attacks in less than a year, way to go Barry.
I will have a longer response to the attempted bombing later today.
Mike Protack
99% of the ‘damage’ radical Islam imposes on America is the sheer inconvienence of our government’s ‘safety’ measures.
When it comes to the airlines and the safety protocols in practice (or not…depending on your viewpoint) I have found it best to defer to people who deal with them everyday. I’d love to see Mr. Protack (an airline pilot for those of you who don’t know) do an expose on the current “safety procedures” and how the money spent on the TSA (or stolen by Chris Dodd) could be more effectively spent making the skies ACTUALLY safer.
As for profiling…personally…I could care less about the irate mother of 4 whose about to beat her kids into the overhead storage compartment…my eyes are on the 5 foot 8 inch Imam who’s quietly chanting Allah Akbar in his seat during takeoff….I’m profiling the HELL out of people…and you know what you liberal jackasses.. I might just make a preemptive strike on the guy if he gets fidgety.