The Toothless Visas Viper

American Thinker ^ | January 15, 2010 | Pamela Geller

[La Lydia]

After a series of successful and unsuccessful jihad attacks across this great nation, on Christmas Day, the crotch-bomber attempted to explode a bomb hidden in his underwear while landing in Detroit on Northwest Flight 253. And so after months of ignoring the jihad against America and pretending that nothing was happening, Barack Obama sprang into action -- with useless, toothless reform.

In the wake of the Christmas Day bomber's attempted attack, the U.S. Visas Viper terrorist reporting program criteria have been broadened. The Visas Viper program is used by the Department of State and other national agencies to place on "watch lists" known or suspected international terrorists in both unclassified and classified government lookout systems...So it's a good thing that Obama is broadening the criteria for reporting terrorists in this program, isn't it? Actually, no. Make no mistake: It is not going to help in any way whatsoever. Obama's "tough" new criteria don't let us filter out potential terrorists using minimal profiling criteria.

The vast number of bureaucracies involved already render the "watch list" process a tangled inter-agency web. And it is simply ridiculous how Visas Viper, the main system that we use to try to prevent terrorists from obtaining visas, uses such vague and toothless criteria -- even after Obama's "reform." How vague? How toothless? Under the present system, people who express anti-American sentiments can fly. People who contribute money to identified terror organizations can fly, no problem. People who associate with known terrorists, but have done nothing further to support terrorism, can also fly. Even people who claim to be members of a terrorist organization but have done nothing to further support terrorism can fly. This is insane. Isn't membership in a terror organization support of terror?

All of this is consistent for Barack Obama. He has blamed Gitmo for Islamic expansionism, appearing to believe that if we bow to our mortal enemy, he will become a friend. Don't upset the Nazis, and they will love us!

Obama has long ignored the onslaught of jihad attacks in America. Close to 40% of the planned and actual Islamic attacks on America post-9/11 took place in Obama's first year....

And I predict that when a Muslim gets one off in a mall or an airport, and limbs are flying and babies are dying, that Tea Partiers and Town Hallers will be joined by counter-jihad protests. They will be protesting the Obama administration's hopeless inaction and impotence in the face of the jihad against our nation.

[La Lydia]

Oh boy. Why am I not surprised?

[NonValueAdded]

Once again the MSM drops the ball, failing to perform the duty intended by the framers. From the gubermint we learned that the Fruit of the Boom dude wasn’t on the no fly list but instead the massive 500,000+ “interest” list. And then - and this is what passed unnoticed - under the guise of “doing something” the gubermint announced they moved DOZENS of names from the big list to the no fly list. Oh boy, they processed a whopping 0.0018% or so IIRC. The person making that pronouncement should have been laughed out of the room.