Retired Lt. General Tom McInerney appeared on Fox News to offer his own proposal for making air travel safer: strip search all Muslim men between 18 and 28. That’s right, strip search every Muslim male at the airport.
Here is how the General explained how we need to “be very serious and harsh about the profiling:” “If you are an 18 to 28-year-old Muslim man then you should be strip searched. And if we don’t do that, there’s a very high probability we’re going to lose an airliner.”
I think that the General has the right thought but the wrong conclusion. What does every airline bomber have in common? Clothes. No clothes means by definition no shoe bombs, no underwear bombs, no explosive vests. People could appear naked at security points and be given those paper gowns used by hospitals.
Of course, Osama Bin Laden could still fly without stripping as would Richard Reid. It would delay things for such athletes as Ramzee Robinson (Cleveland Browns), Abdul Raheeda Hodge (Cincinnati Bengals), Usama Young (Saints), Husain Ibn Muhammed Abdullah (Minnesota Vikings), Kareem Brown (Jets), and others. Congressman Keith Maurice Ellison and Elias A. Zerhouni (Director of the NIH) made it over the line and can keep their clothes on.
Jill,
Thank you for re-posting the deleted post. Makes sense to me. I will state again, I did not aim it at you. You just seem to have gotten hit.
Sometime things other than fly’s get stuck on Flypaper.
Jill,
Just like what you complain of about Obama, Bush, Cheney any other person that you disagree with or are uncomfortable with you shift the blame and refocus the blame on to something that is not the original object to begin.
Did I notice an Apology of at least a sincere I am sorry if I offended you to Swartzmore mom? How about anyone else?
The reason you recognize what Obama is doing is against your values is that you are as guilty as he. In my opinion you are no better than a christian fundamentalist found in bed with his married lover at the same time espousing family values.
Then your very words spseak volumes about your ethics. Your comment above was an example of a nasty comment which needs to stop right now. It was snotty and condescending.
Yes it is Buddha and you have been extremely hypocritical many times on this blog. I have not been a hypocrite. I have made errors and corrected them. I have not made any errors in my speech to you, A.Y. or S.M. I want all of you to immediately stop your hate speech, nasty comments and bull crap.
Jill I have never made a nasty comment about you. I still don’t accept your shame. What Ay says about you has nothing to do with me.
Hypocrisy is shameful too.
Swarthmore mom,
Please refrain from nasty comments about me on this blog. If you find A.Y. comparing me to a “world roach” acceptable, I would say you should be ashamed of yourself.
Here is the post JT deleted from A.Y>
“Word Roaches are free I see. I did not even realize that Jill had posted. It seems that Buddha and I have been accused of being the same person once before as we sometimes posted within Minutes of each other and on one occasion posted at the same time. He being at the time in OZ country and I in the land of Pace’s.
However, I can see where it might be inferred that it was directed at Jill. I do not think that it was, but it is accurate don’t you think?”
That is a shameful thing to say and a shameful thing to support.
My daughter is home until the 18th. She is working on law school apps. It is supposed to be the worst year ever to get into a good law school. Applications are way up. It is stressful for her.
Good Morning Swartzmore mom.
Chris has a very valid point. The illusion of terror is always cheaper to manufacture than actual terror itself.
The flip side, which Chris also touched upon with his Canadian example, is that the illusion of security is always cheaper than actual security.
Shell game, anyone?
That does not change the fact that security shouldn’t be paid for with freedom. Ever.
“In LA isn’t anything possible so long as you pay the right person?”
You are correct, sir. (read in the voice of the late Ed McMahon).
AY,
If I’m a muslim now, can I get a special dispensation to have hookers waiting for me in heaven instead of virgins?
That would save a lot of training and practice time and I’m looking to make the reincarnation happen as quickly as possible.
Buddha,
Didn’t the Asian-Minors convert when the came to the US? In LA isn’t anything possible so long as you pay the right person?
Jill I am surprised you posted that. I thought you were too enlightened to use shame to control people.
I’m a muslim? I thought I was a philosophical Buddhist deist.
When did that happen?
I must have missed that memo.
A.Y.
I never believed you are Buddha are the same person, so I have no idea why you would put out, yet another, lie about something I did not do or say. You need to stop lying about what I said and you need to immediately quit posting other hateful things. End of story.
FYI, Buddha and I are not one in the same. He is a Muslim living in west Louisiana. If you are unhappy with his virtuoso. You speaka to dem.
I am not Buddha’s Keeper, Handler, Trainer and or Monkey Manager.
Jill,
How about you going and screwing yourself.
I’m done placating you.
Is that clear enough, Ms. I Can’t Apologize Properly?
Jill,
Point taken. Now can you do the same? BTW, I did not compare you with a word roach. It is funny that you responded while I was pondering what to say to empirecookie. You may not think it is a coincidence, but it is.
It infuriates me that you can’t even apologize to Mike S for calling him a sexist and in the end a Bigot. I will say it again, that you are as guilty as the people you condemn. Think about that..
A.Y.,
I try to skip your posts, but I am getting very sick of your hate speech towards me. Both you and Buddha have been out of control with your hatred these past few days. You should both stop immediately. Comparting me a “world roach” as you did above is so far past any decent human interaction that I would hope you would be ashamed that you said it. But whether you feel shame or not, you both need to quit writing such cruelty. If neither of you can make a point without being cruel, then don’t make it.