Ouch!
That's gonna hurt! Bad enough when a licensed professional does it - I grow weak in the knees just imagining that operation in the hands of those eleven dollar an hour TSA types.
And not in a good way.
This is a prudent response to the latest threat to the Homeland; undetectable bombs being smuggled onto airliners. After the shoe-bomber and the undie-bomber, former Homeland Security big Michael Chertoff made a fortune selling airport bomb-detectors to governments, to keep the flying public safe and himself rolling in dough.
That was a transparently stupid strategy all along. Even the manufacturers conceded that the terrorists could defeat their bomb detectors by cramming the bombs up their "bodily cavity".
And while there's not been a bombing or a hijacking of an American passenger plane since 9-11, you can never be too careful... or too scared.
So stop complaining and bend over - it's for your own good.
Showing posts with label al-Qaeda undie bomber. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Dude, your pants are on fire!
They've begun the trial of Umar the undie bomber today in Detroit. You may remember Umar. Couple of years ago, Christmas day, he sets his shorts alight on an airplane approaching Detroit.
Today's witnesses at the trial recounted how they tried to alert the inert Umar to the fact his pants were aflame. "Hey dude, your pants are on fire!" I don't know about you, but that would get my attention. Pants on fire? Usually when I think my pants are on fire I know right away it's a bad case of you-know-what from I'm-not-sure -who that I met at the bar the night before. But I know that stays in my pants. It doesn't get the rest of the passengers to feeling threatened.
But not in Umar's case. They've got him dead to rights. Operative of the same Al Qeida that outsmarted the entire USA defence establishment on 9/11. How do you go from outsmarting the entire USA defence establishment to Umar, too fucking retarded to set off the bomb in his underwear? Doesn't make much sense to me.
Maybe it's a testament to how much we've degraded the al-Qaeda. After all, ten years of drone attacks and waterboarding and secret prisons in Libya have got to count for something. Maybe the evil-doers are just getting to the bottom of the recruitment barrel, just like we are.
Maybe. Maybe not. It ain't just hapless Umar on trial here. It's the entire USA defence apparatus.
And I'm guessing they'll put up a good defence.
Today's witnesses at the trial recounted how they tried to alert the inert Umar to the fact his pants were aflame. "Hey dude, your pants are on fire!" I don't know about you, but that would get my attention. Pants on fire? Usually when I think my pants are on fire I know right away it's a bad case of you-know-what from I'm-not-sure -who that I met at the bar the night before. But I know that stays in my pants. It doesn't get the rest of the passengers to feeling threatened.
But not in Umar's case. They've got him dead to rights. Operative of the same Al Qeida that outsmarted the entire USA defence establishment on 9/11. How do you go from outsmarting the entire USA defence establishment to Umar, too fucking retarded to set off the bomb in his underwear? Doesn't make much sense to me.
Maybe it's a testament to how much we've degraded the al-Qaeda. After all, ten years of drone attacks and waterboarding and secret prisons in Libya have got to count for something. Maybe the evil-doers are just getting to the bottom of the recruitment barrel, just like we are.
Maybe. Maybe not. It ain't just hapless Umar on trial here. It's the entire USA defence apparatus.
And I'm guessing they'll put up a good defence.
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