We are being subjected to this because TSA has failed miserably to prevent ‘undesirables’ from getting on planes from outside the USA and attempting to wreak havoc on us, US.
The crotch bomber had no passport, no luggage, a one way ticket paid in cash, and was coming to Detroit in December wearing only a sweatshirt. AND, his father had warned the authorities that his son had been radicalized and was planning to cause harm.
When you leave the screener job up to dumbasses, you can expect dumbass results.
Fortunately, the Crotch Bomber and the Shoe Bomber, to name two, were even dumber.
Keeping the airlines safe is not a job for AA hires.
“...TSA has failed miserably to prevent ‘undesirables’ from getting on planes from outside the USA...”
This is a very important point that most people don’t seem to get. The TSA is always responding to the last threat with their procedures, instead of using available intelligence to accurately profile and intercept high risk individuals.
Those Saudis who attended the Florida flight school were very suspicious in that they had no interest in learning how to land, just take off, cruise, and navigate to a fixed target. But since there was a Clinton government mandated firewall preventing information sharing between federal law enforcement agencies, they (mostly) succeeded in the 9/11 attacks. Remember Jamie Gorlick? Like Janet Reno, I don’t remember her feet ever being held to the fire over this.
The Flight 93 hijack didn’t succeed because a handful of average Americans decided against passivity (as advised by our superiors up until then) and got involved, and thwarted the terrorists’ plans.
The terrorists are not stupid. And now they’ve successfully continued their jihad against Americans by using the TSA to effectively punish each and every one of us who has the audacity to fly.
And once again, it will up to the common sense of the average American to set things right. It’s obvious from the comments of Congress that they still don’t get it.
And underwear, of course :)
Seriously, your point is well taken.
He fit the profile to a T. He should have been detained, and not allowed to board.
John Gibson was all over this yesterday on his radio show.
Remember the imortal words of Pistole, "we are risk based and intelligence driven." You cannot make this stuff up.
These clueless idiots have no honor. They have no honor. In days gone by good citizens would have chased folk like this around town with a horsewhip then tarred and feathered them and run them out of town.