I don't blame the LEAs for frisking and strip-searching the blue-hairs at the airport and then, turning a blind eye to the obvious arab terrorist types.
Hell, they might lose their pensions if they get labeled as racists by some FAA supervisor named al-Hazzouzi.
They've got to judge each man by himself, by cracky!
Yessir, each man by himself.
When Jefferson became president in 1801 he refused to accede to Tripoli's demands for an immediate payment of $225,000 and an annual payment of $25,000. The pasha of Tripoli then declared war on the United States. Although as secretary of state and vice president he had opposed developing an American navy capable of anything more than coastal defense, President Jefferson dispatched a squadron of naval vessels to the Mediterranean. As he declared in his first annual message to Congress: "To this state of general peace with which we have been blessed, one only exception exists. Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean. . . ."
Look at this again. Jefferson said,
"Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day. The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean. . . ."
Translation from early Nineteenth Century Jeffersonian English to contemporary colloquial American English: Jefferson was saying that the Moose Limbs were a bunch of d*ckhead$, and, since there was no way to reason with them, we had to go kick their sorry asses.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.