Choosing Political Correctness Over Safety
Friday, 18 August 2006 | 84 readers so far
It’s a problem that will cost lives again; just like it did on September 11, 2001.
Just ask Michael Tuohey, the ticket agent who gave the boarding passes to Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz Alomari. Clearly a product of liberal conditioning; he allowed who he instinctively knew to be terrorists to board the plane:
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I said to myself, ‘If this guy doesn’t look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does.’ Then I gave myself a mental slap, because in this day and age, it’s not nice to say things like this,” he said. “You’ve checked in hundreds of Arabs and Hindus and Sikhs, and you’ve never done that. I felt kind of embarrassed.”
Embarrassed until the jet crashed into the WTC. Im glad I don’t have to live with that.
Even with testimony from an agent who readily admits his training and instincts spotted a terrorist isn’t enough to convince civil right dingbats like the ACLU that the human being is the best judge of friend or foe. Let me share a quote from Johnah Goldberg’s column from The Kansas City Star:
Our concern is that giving TSA screeners this kind of responsibility and discretion can result in their making decisions not based on solid criteria but on impermissible characteristics such as race,†the ACLU’s Gregory T. Nojeim told the Journal.
Obviously Gregory Nojeim isn’t familiar with Michael Tuohey’s dance with the devil that morning of September 11th.
I don’t believe racial profiling is the end-all to screening out the filth hell-bent on America’s destruction but I definitely don’t think it should be a forbidden factor either.
Im sure Michael Tuohey would say the same.
1 August 18th, 2006 at 8:44 am
Master Gunner says:
Great post.
2 August 18th, 2006 at 8:48 am
Papa Ray says:
I read on the web somewhere of the experiences of our returning servicemen and women. They are frisked, made to remove everything, ran through the machines and then frisked a second time. Any little thing wrong with their paperwork earns them a stay with security and missed planes.
I guess that they think that the Islamist radicals are coming into the country disguised as our service people.
Yet they are letting Saudi and other ME “students” in by the dozen.
Something is just not right here.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
3 August 18th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Trevor says:
What’s not right is that common snese has been killed off by those who value not offending anyone more than they value life itself. Our airport “security” is retarded and ineffective. It’s a training camp for a new kind of slavery that we’re all being led into with eyes wide shut.
I’d rather take my chances with terrorists than I would with the TSA. And they represent more of the government mentality about how to approach problems than you might want to know.
4 August 19th, 2006 at 1:02 am
Shane says:
Exactly Trevor. Those have been my sediments from day 1: Id rather take my chances with the terrorists than < fill in the blank>
Militant Islam won the day we started inconveniencing ourselves. The TSA is exactly what our enemies want!
Thats the tragic part people dont seem to understand.