Our Reaction to Terrorism

From The August Forecast:

Janet Napoli­tano will visit Spain to “meet with her inter­na­tional coun­ter­parts to seek tougher inter­na­tional avi­a­tion secu­rity mea­sures.“ Fur­ther­more, she intends to deploy at least 300 make-your-body-naked image scan­ners at U.S. air­ports in 2010.

All of this is the knee-jerk from a single Nigerian underwear-bomber.

Con­sider the facts: This ter­rorist pur­chased a plane ticket with cash days before his flight (that’s a no-no). He boarded the plane without lug­gage (that’s also a no-no). He boarded the plane without a pass­port (that’s a really BIG no-no).

To any normal brain, this guy should never have been allowed into the ter­minal, much less to the gate and even less, onto the plane. There was no failure in tech­nology, but only a failure in people’s judg­ment, which is rapidly com­pounding with logic made pos­sible only by the Obama/Napolitano/DHS secu­rity team.

Incom­pe­tent, stupid people should be fired”¦ a good starting place would be all the people who had con­tact with this bomber.

The com­pe­tent, smart (and coura­geous) people who jumped the bomber and sub­dued him (all real Amer­i­cans) should be awarded medals of honor and a $100,000 cash award. Notice should be posted that any future flier will be sim­i­larly rewarded if they take out any more would-be ter­ror­ists on any air­plane any­where in the world.

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3 comments to Our Reaction to Terrorism

  • Jonathan

    I cant find words and just want to SWEAR when I watched this video!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te-xtddgL_s&NR=1

    I am not American, but this is the country where everyone comes to look for their rights! (it is a country that is perceived to be country that respects). But after watching such video’s…Hope just slowly goes away…

    I thought about the guns, but how husband can help?! Shoot at police?!

    They might explain this things as for our own safety and protection…but how long more we need to suffer because of the “terrorism” idea…yesterday I watched “Avatar”, where “general” or whatever said to his soldiers…we need to fight against “terrorism”, but those creatures were peaceful…they were just “Different”!!! it is interesting how people fight against “different”…instead of using it for good, we always separate and fight…

    PS: I know this comment is not related to the post, but I posted it here, to know what you are thinking as a spiritual and logical guy…and what would you do, if your close person(wife, sister, mother, daughter…)calls and faces such thing…
    Hope it wont ever happen to anyone!

    This country is FULL of conspiracy!

  • I would hope that my wife and kids would fight for themselves. As far as shooting at the police, I can’t answer that. While I can say there are times when people should not shoot at the police, and there are times when people should have shot at the police (look at Nazi Germany–perhaps had the cost for rounding up Jews been higher the entire public support for the program would have collapsed)–but I can’t answer for you, or anyone, in the hear and now.

    As for rights, it’s always important to consider what sorts of rights you’re talking about. Many people want their rights to peace and safety, but there’s no “right” to these things. We scream “rights” without thinking, don’t we?

  • Jonathan

    I think people just want “human” rights…is it that hard…how many Iranians we can find in North America….LOTS of them. They just want themselves to decide on their lives(how to live, what to believe in) without harming people around!