Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

The Jockstrap Bomber

That's what I call him.  Michael Medved call hims the ding-a-ling bomber.  Whatever he and his ilk are called, they need to be stopped, and political correctness be damned.  Alan Dershowitz makes some suggestions in Stopping the Next Underwear Bomber.  Here is one of his excellent points:

Nor have we learned enough from the near successes of the shoe and underwear bombers. In both cases, we should have acted as if they had succeeded. That they did not had absolutely nothing to do with our security, but rather with a factor over which the would-be terrorists had complete control, namely improving the effectiveness of their explosive triggers. Imagine what the reaction would have been if hundreds of Detroit-bound passengers had been murdered. That is what the reaction should now be to this near-catastrophe.

Dershowitz is exactly right.  The Christmas Day event should not be referred to as a "failed attack" as that bonehead Janet Napolitano said today; we should consider the Muslim terrorist to have succeeded: he penetrated security, and got on board with his explosives.  Had it not been for a brave passenger, he might have brought the plane down.  Liberals needs to wise up and get their heads out of their politically correct asses. The must cease with their contemptibly stupid opposition to profiling.  Dershowitz sees clearly on the issue:

There must be more searching interviews of travelers who do not opt for the security card or the scanning. There is nothing wrong with profiling, so long as it does not lump together all members of a particular race, religion or ethnicity. Profiling, based on a wide variety of characteristics that are directly associated with the risk of terrorism, is a good thing. So is “negative profiling”—that is, excluding certain categories of travelers from super-scrutiny based on their obvious non-involvement in terrorism.

Finally, we must have air marshals on every flight. This will be expensive, but nobody ever said that safe travel coupled with reasonable privacy would be cheap. We will implement all of these proposals—and more intrusive ones—as soon as the first plane is blown out of the sky and hundreds of innocent travelers are murdered. Why not do it now, before a preventable tragedy occurs?

Now kick back and enjoy this YouTube clip.  Liberals being as bloody stupid as they are, one wonders what point reasoning with them could have; mockery and derision might be better ways to counter them.  They don't need refutation — they are impervious to it — they need defunding and removal from power.


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