Idiot bombs (Updated)
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed in his attempt to bomb a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, but I shudder to think what’s going on behind those beady little eyes of TSA officials. I’ll admit that I have a special hatred for the peckerwoods who man the security gates at airports.
When I flew to Panama on election day, 2004 wearing my Vets For Bush t-shirt, I was harassed at Reagan National Airport by several TSA nimrods with searches and then again at Miami. Uncharacteristically, I complied with their nimroddery but it coalesced my pure, burning hatred for those glorified, overpaid rent-a-cops who would otherwise be on welfare.
I’m absolutely delighted that the White House has finally recognized a terror attack.
A White House official said the incident was an attempted act of terrorism.
How long have we waited for an act of terror to be called an act of terror, attempted or otherwise? Of course, TSA, who has billions of dollars of equipment and thousands of employees, none of which is in Nigeria where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded with his chemicals strapped to his leg, is trying to prove they’re on the job;
Federal officials imposed stricter screening measures after the incident.
TSA is window dressing for the war against terror. Their only job is to present the appearance of our Federal government’s commitment to our safety which means that much of their “security measures” are harassment.
Nothing pisses me off more to open my checked bags at my destination to find my lotions and creams in a plastic baggie with a note of admonition from the federal government. Seriously? Search my bags, but don’t leave me a note about putting my toothpaste in a baggie.
Officials at Detroit’s airport are warning travelers that it’ll take them 3 hours to get through security there today. Why? Are they shutting the barn door after the horses all got out?
UPDATE: So the brilliance of the FAA comes through. The new restrictions on passengers are, according to Fox News, passengers must remain in their seats an hour before landing, no access to carry on bags an hour from destination, no carry on items will be allowed on passengers’ laps an hour from landing. None of those things would have prevented this particular attack.
Why can’t we have restrictions like, oh, I don’t know, no one on terror watch lists is allowed a visa, people coming from weak security airports get screened again when they get to civilization. I’m sorry, am I making too much sense again?
Category: Terror War
They piss me off, too. Today Kid 1 was flying out to Midway. As she got to the gate, she said she noticed an ungodly amount of security. And I told her to be on the look out for suspicious “Achmeds”- That she needed to profile!! 🙂 The Bozos at the gate could give two shits, but I hear they have quite the fancy lighter and cologne collections going on.
“Officials at Detroit’s airport are warning travelers that it’ll take them 3 hours to get through security there today.”
Yeah, and I’ll bet their buddies from Dearborn get the express service… Anybody here in the Inkster Army Reserve MP unit? How do you like going to your Reserve center in Hamas-town & Hezbullah-ville, Michigan?
Borrowing (stealing) an expression from TRG over at CC, “These assholes are playing a West Wing fantasy in a ’24’ world.”
Now now, let’s not be too hard on the 8th grade graduates. They are doing the best job they can (which is scary in itself), but they aren’t all bad. Actually, the last time I was at the airport, the 2 women TSA personnel that I dealt with were very nice and didn’t have the God complex attitude, that I had experienced many times before.
See, I get dinged every time I go through the metal detector, the price I pay for having a 10″ steel plate and 8 screws in my upper arm. Usually I get the rambo wannabe, whom I have informed before I go through that I will set it off, who then has to pose for the ladies, I guess, but makes it a bigger deal than it has to be. I don’t know if it’s to draw attention that they are actually dong their job to everyone else, or not, but it certainly draws attention. The last time, I informed the woman and she said, in a normal voice, “come through and then stand over by me”. So I did and she then proceeded to quietly take me over to the extra screening area and pass me off to aother woman who put me in the bubble and was acting normally and wanded me and didn’t ask the usual stupid question, as the wand went off over my arm, “Is that where it is?” She wanded me all over, and checked where my scar is and then sent me on my way. No muss, no fuss.
That was one time out of many, though.
An attack that was only stopped by the inept terrorists himself, and the POTUS was only notified after 3 hours+ had passed. Maybe they were giving 49 more terrorists time to get it right or excape. The department of Homeland Insecurity, led by an idiot, is still triple checking little ole Jewish ladies.
And the window dressing will continue apace, and fliers who used to take the airplane for shorter trips will now find that a three to four hour drive is less stressful than three hours through security for a 45 minute flight!
Look for shorter flights to become less profitable (i.e. canceled) before long.
The simplest answer to this situation is to allow passengers to fly armed. I gosh-darned guarantee you that the thought of all those armed passengers will put a stop to 99% of all hijacking thoughts.
AW1 Tim – except of course it only takes one idiot who accidentally shoots a hole in the fusalage to depressurize the plane – that can really ruin a perfectly good flight and a very expensive aircraft!!
One of the things I love about this is the ‘attempted terrorist act’ bullcrap. Like it only counts as an attack if they manage to bring the plane down.
Can’t these clowns stop playing word games for ANYTHING?
Let’s see. Passengers giving up even more liberties in the name of security in a manner that would not prevent a terrorist attack anyways.
Score one for the bad guys here.
Took my son to the airport today at SeaTac (mines going to Midway as well, DefendUSA). It didn’t seem like security was heightened there and at the gate, after the unacompanied minors got taken on the plane, one of the mothers had to take something to her child on the plane( she was dressed in floor length skirt, jacket and religious headscarf). The airline folks let her on the plane(she got back off about 5 minutes later). I wonder if that is standard procedure for airlines as far as children flying solo, but it sent off alarm bells in my head.
How do you like going to your Reserve center in Hamas-town & Hezbullah-ville, Michigan?
We refer to it as Dearbornistan………
President O’Dumbo is fully involved, between golf swings in Hawaii. Arm the passengers with the new rubber ball tipped bullets. Hit the terrorists it explodes and the cover around the ball cuts him to shreads, hit the aircraft it explodes inside and someone may get nicked with small particles from the cover around the rubber ball. That part of stopping them is covered but the O’Dumbo administration is determined to take every firearm out of the citizens hands by signing on to the U.N crap. I hope a terrorists attack gets all of them, including the slut Hillary, before they can get the law through the idiots and AH’s in congress.
AW1 & Susan,
To continue in your vein of thought:
(Passenger service): “Ma’m? Sir? Are you armed? Oh, good, thank you. And your caliber? 9mm for you? And 40 cal for you? And how many rounds for a full load? Thank you. Here’s a full load’s worth of frangible ammo for each of you. Please make sure you’re fully loaded before boarding. And as our compliment, when you get to your destination, please keep these for your return. Thank you, and have a nice flight. Next?”
Not even bothering to fly back to BWI from Ohio on Dec 29. My parents are driving me because I can’t deal with the stupifying reactive measures TSA will be taking to screen average travellers.I’ll endure the long drive to avoid that. I have no problem with profiling and I don’t care if they body scan me because I doubt my physicality will stand out amongst the thousands of others who also get scanned. I would like to feel safe in my own country without making apologies to the folks whose cultural brethren keep trying to kill me and my fellow citizens for Allah.Whatever has to be done do it but I wish it would be common sense based!!!
The only reason O’Dumbo was notified three hours after the flight landed was he was in on the planned explosion, and only notified that it failed.
You have to give AQ chops for their ability to motivate future underwear bombers. Imagine the safety briefing for the next bomber just before they put him on the plane-
“See, here is a picture of Umar, sitting in a US prison, peeing through a catheter, and will never be with a woman again. If only he had set off the bomb correctly, he would be sitting with 72 virgins instead. So make sure you detonate your underwear bomb correctly, for your manhood’s sake.”
I can already see this making it onto a (AQ) military motivator poster.
“We refer to it as Dearbornistan………”
Yes we do, yes we do…
A”W1 Tim – except of course it only takes one idiot who accidentally shoots a hole in the fusalage to depressurize the plane – that can really ruin a perfectly good flight and a very expensive aircraft!!”
My military and flying buddies all tell me that depressurization is not a problem. A bullet severing an electrical or hydraulic line, on the other hand….
Sorry to be late getting back…….
Yes indeed, a firearm like a Glock or Colt putting a hole or to into the skin isn’t the problem, even at altitude. It takes a good-sized hole to cause explosive decompression. I’ve lived through it once in my Navy career, thank you very much. The problem is hitting, as you point out, something that doesn’t react well to bullets, such as electrical panels, hydraulic lines, etc.
Using frangible bullets or even snake or birdshot is an easy solution.
The best solution, to my mind, is ethnic and religious profiling. I also agree with keeping anyone off the plane whose name is on the list.
But the best way to end the terrorist problem is to simply kill all the terrorists and their enablers. Eventually, we will HAVE to do this. They give us no choice.
Yes Jonn, You are making too much sense. Period.
I got the same treatment from the TSA when I wore an “Obamunism” t-shirt for my flight!
Hmmmm…I wonder how much “special” screening I’d get if I wore my certified VRWC ripe-for-terrorist-pickins camo jacket inside an airport?
TSA–Thousands Standing Around. Of course, the same libtards who scream about the shredding of the Constitution under Bush, which gave us this abomination of a federal agency, see no problem getting healthcare from the same reject GS-4’s and 5’s with the same “I’m working here because McDonald’s wasn’t hiring last week” bullshit excuse.
Woodman,
Yeah man, I like your idea!!! Keep the peanuts, give me my ammo!!!
I don’t fly.
Jonn: This has always been part of the effort to make a Law Enforcement approach appear to be superior to a military one.
It’s no/zero/nil stretch to equate this effort with gun control.
Silly just doesn’t adequately cover it.
Aside: Hypothetically – someone who knew just a bit more than this dufus could drive all the way to south Florida. A single road trip could have left ‘surprises’ here and there.
Oh yeah… howdy from the Ten Thousand Islands.
“But the best way to end the terrorist problem is to simply kill all the terrorists and their enablers.”
But where will Western universities find that many replacement instructors? 😀