No Underwear In The Air
On Christmas Day there was a terrorist attack onboard an airliner with a concealed explosive device in the underwear of a 23-year-old Nigerian. He had been added to a terrorism watch list in November but not to the no-fly list.
When an airliner lifts off a runway all earthly governments, laws and policies are left behind. Airborne passengers are left to their own wits and survival skills when confronted with a degenerate, subhuman lowlife determined to destroy an airliner with everyone onboard.
“This was one individual literally of thousands that fly and thousands of flights every year. And he was stopped before any damage could be done. I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have.”
~Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
Just what exactly is that supposed to mean? You have someone on a security watch list whose own family turns him in for suspicious activity, apparently has no luggage and pays cash for a ticket and he is still allowed onboard a plane. Security failed miserably Secretary Napolitano! Yes, Madam Secretary, everything happened that should have. The passengers took security matters into their own hands and subdued this moron without the help from Homeland Security. They should be rewarded for having the discipline not to stomp his face into a piece of pulp.
As terrorists continually conjure up more ingenious ways to smuggle explosives onboard airliners policies will have to adapt. Currently we bend, swerve, and dodge with every new, evil terrorist whim. After the shoe bomber incident passengers had to remove their shoes. Then there were no liquids allowed while boarding. Will we now have to remove our underwear before boarding? How else will they determine the presence of suspicious material?
So let’s ponder a real unnerving thought. What happens when a terrorist smuggles the first AED (anal explosive device) onboard an airliner? Will cavity searches become the norm? If so, chalk up another win for al-Qaeda whose rank and file will be bent over (pun intended) with laughter.
