ANN COULTER
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Posted on 08/16/2006 8:03:46 PM PDT by GMMAC
TERRORISTS WIN:
DEODORANT BANNED FROM AIRPLANES
by Ann Coulter
AnnCoulter.com
August 16, 2006
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:
1) Nothing being done by airport security since 9/11 would prevent a bomb from being brought onto an airplane; and
2) 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.
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how about banning muslims from airplanes?
Let their countries buy and use their own planes ,they got plenty of money . Keep them off our aircraft entirely.
That is a kind of profiling that will work .
"Baby formula doesn't kill people. Islamic fascists kill people."
Haha, brilliant!
I'm bettin' on black lace ...
I am working on this just from the title of the piece, but it is exactly what I was thinking today. We can't take anything on board a plane now...and the terrorists are probably laughing their fool heads off! And remaining at large for the most part!
The terrorists are REALLY stupid.
Can you imagine the rage of the female passengers if a terrorist dares to stand up in a plane now and say who he is?
The women passengers who have just thrown out a couple hundred dollars of makeup and perfume will tear the terrorists apart!
The greatest asset terrorists have is political correctness and the leftists addicted to PC.
"....(OK — well, that and finding out what color of lingerie Ann Coulter prefers.)..."
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It's black or dark blue.
That white stain on Ann Coulter's dress is supposed to be some sort of sick joke against our wonderful President Reagan and an outrageous insult to Ann Coulter. If I were you I would ping the Admin Moderator to remove the graphic. As an aside, I wouldn't use a picture named "http://rushlimbaughtomy.blogspot.com/intern2.jpg" in the future.
~ Blue Jays ~
Yep. The terrorists have won at least a little due to the shakedown law-abiding passengers go through while political correctness protects terrorists.
Until political correctness is defeated, the Islamo-terrorists will never be defeated.
Oh, crap. Can we wear gas masks on planes now? Or maybe Vicks VapoRub under the nose?
Bad move banning deodorant. It used to be we could locate the Islamofascists by smell. Now everyone will smell. Of course the French caused a number of false alarms, too.
"Let their countries buy and use their own planes ,they got plenty of money ."
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Sure. They will use each of them for only one flight.
Amen! You are entirely correct. It even kept the Israelis from getting rid of Hezbollah like they would have 20 years ago!
fine with me- I missed the article earlier...
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