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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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
Thanks for removing post #1
Islamic fascists kill people. If that's not understood by liberals the next step will be planes that only carry people -- followed by planes that carry their luggage?
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.Here is the ORIGINAL (un-"Reuter"-ized) image, from www.anncoulter.com:If I were you I would ping the Admin Moderator to remove the [adulterated] graphic [in GMMAC's ill-fated post #1]
Not yet established. The profiling was behavioral first and foremost.
Exactly how does the first comment get pulled, without the whole thread getting yanked?
Funny! Thanks bitt
Ann alert!
how about banning muslims from airplanes?
Absolutly! And we should start with Mohammed N. Rahman
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1451921/posts
That's my favored solution. They cause the problem, let them suffer until they solve it. In the meantime, no Muslim should be allowed to board an aircraft. If they don't like it, maybe that discomfort will prod them to root out the evil from their own ranks.
If they've been effectively excommunicated like he has, they get a pass.
Now we'll all smell like Arabs.
You're welcome. If he posts it again he will be banned.
Ann's ascerbic wit and harsh sarcasm are blunted by reality. This article is a staightforward exposition of the truth. That is genuinely shocking.
If they've been effectively excommunicated like he has
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The name of the graphic should have been an immediate hint...
It was clearly an oversight and no harm was done. My anger is directed towards the knuckledragger who would compare our beloved President Reagan to that jerk President Clinton and simultaneously attempt to insult Ann Coulter in the process.
~ Blue Jays ~
The REALLY sad thing is those idiots have been laughing at us since 9/11.
As I have said on other threads before:
Pres. Bush and P.M. Blair---In this neverending WOT DO NOT give a single inch in your resolve. The fight can not end until they lose!!!!
BTW, great article again AC!!!!
White stain on a dress? Are you sure it's not a parody on Bubba? Seems more appropriate!
Says the local mosque won't allow him in.
I'm glad I didn't see it, nor do I want to. My reaction may have been a little more harsh.
RWR was the first and IMO, the best President I've voted for WITHOUT DOUBT!!!!. Any attempted insults towards him or AC hints at cowardness that we see on a daily basis by the dims.
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