National Security and Obama

Like most Americans I’ve followed the events of the terrorist attack on Christmas day with growing concern. By the way, it wasn’t an attempted attack … it failed to down the aircraft, but it was an attack and ostensibly successful if measured by the additional denigration the TSA will subject the average US air traveler to.

The initial response of government officials such as Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Incompetanio, Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan, and even Obama’s being MIA for three days did not inspire confidence. Incompetanio’s statement on the Dec 27th Sunday talk shows, “… the system worked …” was nothing more than an attempt to cover the administration’s back side. The following Sunday, Brennan’s’ round on the Sunday shows was not much more than a CYA tour. He didn’t address the problem … the administration blew it on connecting several glaring dots!

I know! What has been missing since 9/11 and is really needed is a department under the direct control of the National Security Adviser, called … uhmm … I don’t know …. maybe the DODC … sure, that’s it, the Department of Dot Connectors. That’s the ticket … another bureaucracy will solve the problem!

Instead, we are soon to be faced with the threat of full body scanners in order to board an airplane. The interesting thing about the current plan is that the TSA, in a pique of modesty, says that the face as well as the “genital” area will be digitally blurred. Gee, that’s encouraging; TSA will be unable to see any details in the exact area where the explosive material was “carried” by the panty bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

Even if the TSA doesn’t blur everyone’s crotch, the images are not an xray and can’t detect a stick of dynamite stuffed up Mohammad’s rear-end (as opposed to being wrapped in his turban), which is how an attempt was made recently on Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the assistant interior minister who has been spearheading the country’s war on terror. The Prince escaped with minor injuries.

The video below briefly covers the attack as well as interviews and profiles of former residents of Club Git-mo who President Bush released to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation in their “arts for jihadists” program. There is even a shot of one of Abdula’s better paintings!

One of the new imaging machines would not detect a device carried internally, so what will the TSA’s response be when someone attempts to light a fuse protruding from his behind? It can’t be to install xray machines next. For frequent fliers, that would result in flying becoming the most dangerous form of travel, rather than the safest!

However, Muslims will not stand for entering a machine that projects an image of them basically nude. What would the TSA do about that? Exempt anyone who professes to be Islamic?

The only way to make flying safer is to stop looking for things and start looking for people. Every other country in the world that is serious about air safety and terrorism trains their security agents on how to interview passengers prior to boarding. I’ve been interviewed on many occasions when returning from European airports. They only ask three or four relatively innocuous questions, but they are trained to recognize when people are being untruthful or evasive.

The Israelis have become masters of this approach. Did you know that to board an El AL airlines flight … you aren’t required to remove your shoes? How could that be? Well for your information, El AL is widely acknowledged as the world’s most secure airline, after foiling many attempted hijackings and terror attacks through its security protocols

Such tactics are referred to by our liberal friends as PROFILING! However, it is Terror profiling … not criminal … not racial … TERROR profiling. And using such obviously right-wing, anti-civil rights methods is not going to happen anytime soon in this country, because as I said here, the current administration nor most of the bureaucracies in Washington are serious about the war we are in with Radical Islamism. Most even refuse to us that name.

Sad!

Update: Ran across this very funny parody on airport security this evening. Be sure and check it out. Rings so true!!!!

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