Posted on 08/16/2006 3:34:12 PM PDT by ZGuy
Last week, British authorities arrested 24 members of a terrorist cell plotting to blow up about a dozen U.S.-bound planes simultaneously. As a result of those arrests, we learned:
Nothing being done by airport security since 9/11 would prevent a bomb from being brought onto an airplane; and
This terrorist plot -- like all other terrorist plots -- was stopped by ethnic profiling.
Last week marked the first official admission that everything government airport screeners have been doing until now is completely pointless -- unless you're an airport security guard with a thing for women's undergarments, in which case it's been highly effective.
As we now know, all the ingredients necessary to blow up an airplane can be carried in small liquid containers. Airport security has not even been looking for small liquid containers. Judging from my personal experience, they seem to have been focusing on finding explosive devices inside women's brassieres.
After five years of submissively complying with bag checks, shoe checks and underwire bra checks, Americans have now been informed that the hell we've been going through at the airports (but which the president and members of Congress do not go through because they refuse to fly commercial air) has been a useless Kabuki theater.
The procedures that have wasted millions of hours of time cannot keep the most basic bomb materials off an airplane. This is like locking your windows to prevent burglaries, while leaving the front door wide open.
Airport security has been using metal detectors to confiscate sharp objects that could be turned into make-shift weapons, which could then be used by terrorists to commandeer control of a plane and fly it into a building.
Except the terrorists can't do that because we've seen that trick before.
After 9/11, airline passengers will never allow a half-dozen terrorists to take control of a plane again. Indeed, on 9/11, passengers on Flight 93 prevented terrorists who had already been given control of the plane from flying it into a building after hearing what had happened to the first three hijacked planes.
To pull off a 9/11-style attack now, literally half the passengers on the plane would have to be terrorists. (At least the airport screeners wouldn't have to worry about confiscating a lot of deodorants.)
I think a planeful of Arabs would attract attention -- except from people who had recently completed a government training program teaching them not to notice anyone's appearance. Not even a group of liberal Democrats flying off to a Renaissance Weekend would stand for that.
The sole objective of airport security post-9/11 has been to accomplish the impossible -- remove all sharp objects from a plane -- in order to prevent an attack that won't ever happen again. (OK -- well, that and finding out what color of lingerie Ann Coulter prefers.)
The plan seems to be to make flying so unpleasant that terrorists -- like the people who write laws about airport security -- will refuse to fly commercial air. On that theory, we could also keep terrorists off planes by forcing passengers to undergo root canal surgery before boarding, making them stand on their heads for an hour, or enacting an "all Whoopi Goldberg in-flight movie" policy.
What stopped last week's terrorist attack was ethnic profiling. We don't know the details of the British intelligence work that nabbed the 24 Muslims because The New York Times has not been able to obtain that classified information and publish it on its front page yet. But it is a fact that you could not catch 24 Muslim terrorists by surveilling everyone in Britain equally.
Without the ethnic profiling going on outside of airports, no security procedure currently permissible inside airports would have prevented a terrorist attack that would have left thousands dead.
Airplanes, ports, bridges, subways and shopping malls cannot ever be sanitized against every type of attack that can be dreamed up by fanatics engaged in asymmetrical warfare. We have to target the fanatics themselves. Baby formula doesn't kill people. Islamic fascists kill people.
Great article, but wrong on this point. The sole objective was to create lots and lots and lots of government jobs.
I believe that's a secondary objective. The main objective was to make people think something was being done about aircraft security.
Someone at Stanstead has been enjoying my wife's watch for a long time now. From before 9-11, when there were fewer excuses for looting and plundering.
Okay, I have to know. Was she wearing the brassiere when they were checking???
Damn....You beat me to it.
Was she wearing the brassiere when they were checking???See also THIS thread:
Maybe Women Who Like Touching Women Shouldn't Be Working Airport Security (by Coulter)
Ann Coulter's Website ^ | 17 April 05 | Ann Coulter
Posted on 04/20/2005 9:30:07 AM PDT by SkyPilot
KRISTA SNOOK, who looks exactly like that, seems to enjoy her job doing airport security at the Harrisburg, PA Airport a little too much.
When my rubber-soled Keds failed to set off the magnatometer and give her an excuse to feel me up, she still insisted on a full-body search on the grounds that I had not taken off my rubber-soled Keds the first time through (on what I thought were the sensible grounds that rubber-soled Keds could not possibly set off the magnatometer or conceal a pea). So I went through the magnatometer in barefeet, risking athletes foot and gangrene, which also failed to set off the magnatometer.
But I got a full-body search anyway.It was like a date with Ted Turner: whether you liked it or not, your clothes were coming off at some point.
Ms. Snook took special care in waving the wand over my barefeet — barefeet! — but then quickly turned to the main issue at hand: the risk of an exploding bra.
The last time I was mauled like that, I at least got a couple of cosmopolitans and a steak first...
CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread
That is close, but not the sole objective. The real key is that every single thing that has been done so far has increased government control. Every single thing. Ann is absolutely correct, that removing swiss army knives from passengers has done nothing to increase security on airplanes. I've been saying since 9/11/01 that it has become impossible to hijack an airplane. The only practical effect of these stupid policies is to impress upon the sheep of this country the overwhelming power of the government to remove any dignity you have somehow retained.
There are plenty of supporters of this mentality even on this forum. It's depressing.
Exactly. There was an excellent article right after 9/11 titled "End of an Era." The author nailed it, in that terrorists will never hijack another plane because the passengers will become overwhelmed with anger and adrenaline. Even the shoe bomber Richard Reid was taken down by other passengers.
U.S. airline security and screening is a joke.
Cosmopolitans an a steak. Got it. Thanks!
TERRORISTS WIN: DEODORANT BANNED FROM AIRPLANES
(Ann Coulter Alert!)
Posted by GMMAC
On News/Activism 08/16/2006 8:03:46 PM PDT · 17 replies · 277+ views
AnnCoulter.com ^ | August 16, 2006 | Ann Coulter
[Ann Coulter]
Terrorists Win : Deodorant Banned from Airplanes
Posted by ZGuy
On News/Activism 08/16/2006 3:34:12 PM PDT · 72 replies · 2,468+ views
Human Events ^ | 8/16/6 | Ann Coulter
You'll never know...
LOL! NOW, NOW! Lets not go there.
1. Any time I've gone through security - and I warrant special attention - I've had a male TSA agent check me (and I'm a man). I've observed the same 'same-sex inspection' policy when women get inspected.
2. I don't think having minimal inspections for non- 'young arabic males' is going to give us security. Check out these two pictures I took in San Francisco Friday:
That little-old-lady (who just happens to support American-killing terrorist scum) looks like she could be in a Norman Rockwell painting! We need to be on-guard against all these idiots, no matter what they look like.
Good point, as with the increased difficulty of hijacking aircraft post 9/11. Better not say that too loud around the sheeple, though.
You're a pal, stranger.
Apparently they occasionaly do so.
It occurred to me that fake saline or silicone implants would make great storage locations for binary explosives. A little (very tiny vial) of Novocaine to make extracting it less painfull, and you've got quite a bit of explosives, or nerve gas. Heck you could probably hide C-4 or Semtex that way, but you'd have to pre-implant the detonators, and disguise the protruding wires as part of the bra, although they aren't likely to X-ray the passengers.
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