On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh?
But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions.
Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow last week, they were permitting only one item of carry-on on U.S. flights. In Toronto, no large purses.
Um, the Pantybomber didn’t have a purse. He brought the bomb on board under his private parts, and his private parts weren’t part of his carry-on (although, if reports of injuries sustained in his failed mission are correct, they may well have been part of his carry-off). But no matter. If in doubt, blame the victim. The TSA announced that for the last hour of the flight no passenger can use the toilets or have anything on his lap — not a laptop, not a blanket, not a stewardess, not even a paperback book. I can’t wait for the first lawsuit after an infidel flight attendant confiscates a litigious imam’s Koran as they’re coming into LAX.
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See Also:
Ajami: A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy
Updates:
5:28 pm EST, January 3rd, 2010 — TSA Tightens Security for International Travel
I wish Mark Steyn would stop mincing his words. : – ))
The mindset of the sheeple who are willing to do almost anything ‘if it helps keep them safe‘ truly boggles the mind – it’s something I heard on the news and talk radio (primarily Conservative news talk), and saw on the web, many, many, times.
It’s sad to see what so many are willing to give up to, and indeed demand of, the state in order to be kept safe – I fly way more than the average citizen does and my greater worry is still being run off the street into a parking meter by some idiot in a car while pedaling to work than being blown up by an idiot with a bomb while on final approach to Toronto.
Rumor has it that George W Bush is being considered for the next Nobel Peace Prize – ‘for leaving office.’
I dont know how these rumors get started.
Hey, does anyone know where I can get my carpets cleaned.?
Re: #1 — Don has it right. Steyn “talks in tongues” just like Sarah Palin and a few others I know. You must be one of them to understand the language.
“Heh”…
I like your comment, Jack. Heh.