printTen years too late, Chris Matthews voices discomfort with America’s airport insanity, where “old women and old men are taken out of their wheelchairs, having to do this Lord’s Walk for about 20 yards to prove that they can walk. It’s insane.”
The Johnnie-come-lately anchor of “Hardball” asked for common sense, as deployed by the Israelis (again; ten years too late): “And then you hear about this guy who raises all the red flags and the walks right through. Why to we put up with this? Is this going to come down to profiling?”
Watch:
Could this creep be alluding to what I termed “Rational Profiling”? This from “Rational Profiling: Cabbies Do It Too: Cabbies Do It Too”:
Bush, we presume, is aware of the shared characteristics that distinguish Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi, Mohammed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah, Hani Hanjour (all of the 9-11 “fame”); Mohammad Sidique Khan, Hasib Mir Hussain, and Shehzad Tanweer (of 7-7); Ayman al-Zawahiri’s and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Bin Laden’s Capo Bastones).
If not, his security detail knows “Muslims proportionately commit more airline hijackings and suicide bombings than non-Muslims.” The taxpayer-funded security squads watching over our legislators certainly do not confine their protective efforts to frisking old ladies.
Yet the Bush administration has severely punished airlines “whose pilots have refused to carry Muslim men whom they regard as a security risk.” The Department of Transportation—and resentful Muslim advocacy groups—has no qualms about continually suing airlines for attempting to put the safety of passengers first.
From “Lunatic Government Occupies Airports”:
“Compiling a composite of the criminals most likely to hijack an airline or blow up a building isn’t hard. … The menace faced is invariably from ‘young Muslim men of North African, Middle Eastern and South Asian origin.’ … officials keep telling the believing ‘Boobus Americanus’ that safety lies in pretending everyone is equally weighted in his propensity to blow up an airplane. If we were on the lookout for an abortion clinic saboteur, would we be patting down Islamists, or Southern Baptist survivalists? In every other whodunit, behavioral scientists attempt to construct a criminal profile of the suspect. In the case of Islamic terrorism, however, the state won’t even use the compelling evidence it has.”
Update (Dec. 29): SMILE; YOU’RE BEING STRIPPED. Is it to be “rational profiling” or this strip-search (courtesy of Drudge)? We know the answer, as well as we know our overlords.
No policy will work if administered by IDIOTS. As Chris and the others said:
– Moslem kid with no American sponsors/points of contact
– Paid in cash
– Visits to Yemen
– Fingered by his father as a terrorist
– Banned by the UK as a terrorist
None of this even warrented holding up a visa, extra screening, pat down. Like Major Hasan, this Abdul was a glowing billboard that said “TERRORIST” and nothing was done. Profiling, machines, or whatever is only as good as the nature of the people running the system.
But will Chris Matthews dare question the core liberal doctrines that allowed Abdul Mutallab to be granted a visa in the first place? The policy of granting so many visas to individuals from Muslim countries is akin to America offering visas to Germans and Japaneses right after Pearl Harbor or to Russians during the Cold War. In that past year alone we have seen countless failed jihad plots conducted by Muslim immigrants or the children of immigrants in the US, but no one wants to make the connect between Muslim immigration and Muslim terrorism. We would rather deceived ourselves that Muslims will assimilate and that folks like Major Hasan or the “panty bomber” Abdul Mutallab are merely psychologically disturbed men not reflective of the tenets of their faith.
Mr. Matthews took ten years to see the light where it took Ms. Napolitano about 24 hours. The system worked, but, then again it didn’t, but it’ll work again… someday, after we update our lists, review our policies, reassess structural procedures, expand our understanding of man-made disasters, evaluate, prioritize, appraise, analyze, and examine. [I.e.; become a market-based, private enterprise.–IM]
After all that, and were the proposition available in Vegas, I’d wager Muslim exceptionalism continues to trump common sense.
We already know the outcome of all this political wrangling: warrantless and unnecessary searches of innocent American travelers more invasive and humiliating than before.
As usual, I have questions that the press coverage isn’t answering:
1) Has Abdulmutallab qualified for a Darwin Award? Obviously, he’s not dead, but we do have reason to hope that he’s removed himself from the gene pool.
2) Is Abdulmutallab receiving medical treatment at the expense of American taxpayers? If so, why? Wouldn’t that just encourage others like him?
3) Has anyone else suggested that we ship Abdulmutallab back to Lagos for his convalescence?
Napolitano took 24 hours to realize that she said the wrong thing POLITICALLY. She is still incompetent. Mathews is an idiot. He was an idiot 10 years ago. He will still be an idiot 10 years from now.
I don’t know why Abdul is being treated and handled by the police forces. He should be in Guantanamo now getting ready to be interrogated.
But instead of that, our brilliant leadership is thinking about sending the Yemenis in Guantanamo back to Yemen for some R&R so that they can rejoin their comrades in battle against American once more.
As I have said elsewhere – the nose needs to be more bloodied before we understand that this is not solvable by a police action. The “we” here are Obama and Napolitano and Holder and … well, everyone in this administration.
Poor little flower. He thinks he can have just the right amount of liberalism to suit him, not too little, not too much. But liberalism has no internal brake. It keeps going until it implodes.
I wonder how many of us it will take with it?