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TERRORISTS WIN: DEODORANT BANNED FROM AIRPLANES (Ann Coulter Alert!)
AnnCoulter.com ^ | August 16, 2006 | Ann Coulter

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; anncoulter; britain; coulter; islamofascism; muslims; terrorbust; terrorists; terrorplot; tsa; uk
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To: T.L.Sink
Hi T.L.-

The only people in the original doctored picture were our wonderful President Ronald Reagan and Ann Coulter wearing a blue dress. This is the danger when conducting a GOOGLE image search without really examining the pictures for modifications.

~ Blue Jays ~

41 posted on 08/16/2006 9:06:18 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: thoughtomator

However, for some Marines who are of the Islamic faith, the war in Iraq hits a personal note. Cpl. Mohammed N. Rahman, who is a Sunni Muslim, fights not only to free the people of Iraq from the insurgents grip and to protect his country (America), but also to redeem his beloved religion.

“This is a personal offense, not only to me but others who share my faith,” said the 23-year-old infantryman with 2nd Platoon, Company L. “The insurgents have scarred the image of my religion.”


42 posted on 08/16/2006 9:06:26 PM PDT by Valin (http://www.irey.com/)
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To: cleveland gop
Hi cleveland gop-

I'm sure it wasn't intentional by the original poster, so I'm glad it was removed without difficulty! What a fantastic person we had gracing the Oval Office during those years. President Reagan will go down in history as one of the truly great ones.

~ Blue Jays ~

43 posted on 08/16/2006 9:09:48 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: GMMAC
The "money" quote:

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.

44 posted on 08/16/2006 9:10:45 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Just 6 shopping days left until 8-22-2006!)
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To: IronJack

Guys .... sheesh ......


45 posted on 08/16/2006 9:11:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("The Americans on Flight 93 did more to counter terrorism than the Democrats have done in 4 years")
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To: Valin

Sadly it is he who has the mistaken impression of his religion. He's the exception to the widely applicable rule that Muslims either are, support, or make excuses for terrorists.


46 posted on 08/16/2006 9:11:56 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Islam delenda est)
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To: Blue Jays

That's for darn sure indeed!!!! I wish every Pres. could be a clone of RWR, but alas now I'm asking for a miracle now am I.......HMMMMMMMM how about George Allen..........


47 posted on 08/16/2006 9:12:52 PM PDT by cleveland gop (Bill Clinton caused 9/11. Conservatives know it, liberals cry foul!!!)
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To: Blue Jays
Hi All-

I've long felt that a traditional hijacking of an airliner has "gone the way of the dodo bird" at this point. Anyone who jumps to their feet with evil intent will be beaten to the consistency of warm oatmeal by fellow passengers. It is pointless to restrict things like little penknives from the cabin. We need to screen people more than we screen things.

~ Blue Jays ~

48 posted on 08/16/2006 9:13:56 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: GMMAC
Exactly what I've been thinking and saying since this silliness started.

Bravo, Ann!

49 posted on 08/16/2006 9:22:15 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Blue Jays

I agree - couldn't help but thinking of Bubba though. I suppose that's a permanent part of his legacy we'll never forget.

Reagan always entered the Oval Office wearing a suit out of respect for the great occupants of White House who had been there before him.

Can we ever think of it in the same way? As Rush refers to it now in his inimitable way -- the Oval Oriface.


50 posted on 08/16/2006 9:23:35 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: Blue Jays
Anyone who jumps to their feet with evil intent will be beaten to the consistency of warm oatmeal by fellow passengers.
I doubt there is a requirement that one stands and yells "Allah Fubar." Simply detonating the explosives while sitting quietly will suffice for the nutcases.
51 posted on 08/16/2006 9:25:20 PM PDT by peyton randolph (No man knows the day nor the hour of The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief.)
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To: Blue Jays
We need to screen people more than we screen things.
Hannity had some jerk on his show today screaming about "racial profiling"...the other guest was calmly trying to explain that it is a necessary tool in law-enforcement and in our security. It was like some weird twisted Abbott & Costello routine.
52 posted on 08/16/2006 9:31:54 PM PDT by FlashBack (W)
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To: RonDog

re: 24
Hey, I have that pic saved also. Great people!!


53 posted on 08/16/2006 9:42:53 PM PDT by MeekMom (Obey the Lord Jesus, the benefits are great!)
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To: peyton randolph
After this weeks scare, it took me about 5 minutes to figure a way to go around the NEW rules and down a plane. I won't go into it here, of course,( loose lips sink ships), but someone willing to commit suicide to do the job will figure it out eventually. They joked about going on trips naked, but that's just about what it would take to fly 50% safe.

I don't see and end to this without some mushroom clouds over some sandy areas. 10 years form now we will still be messin with this crap if we don't do something about it. My dad always taught me how to handle the playground bully was to bust him in the nose. If he was still standing, you bust him again. He will remember that you didn't let him get away with his foolishness afterward. Can anyone figure why nobody messes with China or Russia? They don't give a fig what the NYT or the UN thinks. They would give lead poisoning to some of the Imam's over there, and they would shut up.

54 posted on 08/16/2006 9:47:07 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: LeoWindhorse

"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."

That would be 'racial profiling' and the ACLU will not hear of it. We will be doomed however if we do NOT RACIAL PROFILE.


55 posted on 08/16/2006 9:50:00 PM PDT by television is just wrong (our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: GMMAC

The ability to fly in a commercial jetliner is not a right, it is a privilege. Revoking this privilege for this group is the only way to prevent them from blowing up airliners period. Ban muslims, not deodorant.

When (if) muslims ever become civilized at some point in the future, they could be welcomed back into a free society with flight privileges. Til they are, I do not intend to fly. Only when all non muslims refuse to fly with them will these horrors end. A complete boycott of flying will get the airline industries' and govt's attention that we are fed up with their silly bogus security measures.


56 posted on 08/16/2006 9:59:36 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Could mecca be Satan's' throne?)
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To: LUV W
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!

While they walk right through the security gate with their "liquid" in their pockets.

57 posted on 08/16/2006 10:00:33 PM PDT by sandlady
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To: LeoWindhorse
Let their countries buy and use their own planes ,they got plenty of money .

Great, then they can have a plane load full of terrorists that don't have to hijack it to fly it onto a building, they'll all be willing participants.

To make your idea work, you would have to restrict "Mulsim Air" to muslim countries. Muslims flying muslims to muslim lands ONLY.

I don't have a problem with that.

58 posted on 08/16/2006 10:08:26 PM PDT by AFreeBird (... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
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To: MeekMom

:o)


59 posted on 08/16/2006 10:18:24 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: GMMAC

I can't believe no one's commented on the funniest and truest sentence in the article:

"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."

Nobody does it better than Ann Coulter.


60 posted on 08/16/2006 10:38:13 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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