March 15, 2012, - 4:32 pm
Attn, Islamic Terrorists: Recruit Seniors or Pay $100 – TSA’s New Way to Avoid Profiling, Real Security
The TSA has basically just admitted that removing shoes and jackets, examining laptops, and going through the pat-down at airport security checkpoints is not effective and doesn’t do a damned thing. No, the agency didn’t explicitly say so. But it announced it will no longer do these things for senior citizens, aged 75 and older, or for people willing to pay $100 a year in a new program called, “Precheck.” Yes, as in the past, you can buy–or age–your way out of all of these hassles.
DHS’ Lesbionic Woman & TSA Chief Pete Pistole Announce New Program for Terrorists: Pay $100 & Avoid Full Security Screening
And what the TSA is saying by eliminating these processes for some groups is that they don’t really work in the first place. If they did, the TSA wouldn’t be sending an instant message to Islamic terrorists to recruit old Muslims and Muslims with no criminal record willing to pay $100. I think Al-Qaeda will even front the hundy. The TSA didn’t just say, “We’ll stop fully screening 75-year-old little old ladies from Pasadena and their similarly aged husbands.” The agency will also stop fully screening 75-year-old little old Mohammeds from Dearbornistan and their similarly aged four sharia wives. And that’s why the policy is useless.
The $100 Precheck program began in October as a pilot at a few airports, but now it’s being rolled out by Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano and TSA chief Pete Pistole to every airport. And they won’t say how many people applied or how many were rejected. You can bet the second number is very low, since we know that DHS spends very little time on background checks for people seeking visas and immigration benefits–less than six minutes per person. They aren’t going to spend more time on hundreds of passengers flying every day. And once you’re approved for the program, they don’t spend time re-checking you each time you fly.
You won’t see the Israelis offering airline passengers a chance to evade proper screening by paying $100 or showing ID that says they are 75 years old or older. But that’s because the Israelis profile. They don’t make everyone go through security theater. They know what they are doing, and they are successful at it.
Does the TSA really think that committed Islamic terrorists end their desire to blow up planes at age 74? I have news for them. Ever hear of Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who was 74 at death? He’s the dude who issued the fatwa to blow up 300 U.S. Marines and civilians when Hezbollah blew up the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. At the end of his life, he was every bit as hateful as in 1983.
How about Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of HAMAS? Though he was just 67 (though he looked like 97) when he died, here’s a tip: had he lived to 75 or older, he wouldn’t suddenly have an epiphany to stop approving and fomenting Islamic terrorist attacks against innocent civilians.
And there are plenty of older Muslims, who see their lives as mostly complete, other than becoming martyrs and going to paradise. Some of them will agree, at age 75, after they’ve fathered (or mothered) children and had grandchildren to go out with a bang to please allah.
If these pat-downs, shoe removals, etc. were so effective, we wouldn’t do away with the policy for older Muslims. But since we’re doing away with it for older Catholic and Protestant grandmas, we have to do it for everyone else. And Al-Qaeda, HAMAS, and Hezbollah are taking note.
The same goes for the $100 annual fee to go speed through security without removing shoes, belts, jackets, liquids, and laptops and avoid the full-body scan. It’s just like the former Trusted Traveler program. And it’s baloney. Sure, they screen people ahead of time to make sure they aren’t criminals or known terrorists or non-U.S. citizens. But here’s the thing: that’s not who Al-Qaeda recruits. Both Nidal Malik Hassan, the Fort Hood Islamic terrorist, and Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber, would qualify for the “Precheck” program. Before their attacks, neither was on the no-fly list and both were U.S. citizens. You wanna fly with them and their liquids and shoes? You think they should get to breeze through security because they paid their C-note? If your orange juice and my shampoo are potential bombs, so are theirs, regardless of their age or if they aren’t on the no-fly list.
The security hassles we all go through at the airport are absurdly stupid. And, yet, if all it takes is paying $100 or reaching age 75 to get out of it, that’s even more of a joke and a de facto admission by the Department of Homeland Security that it’s all a pretense and a fraud.
But we knew that already it was phony and a joke. Now $100 or being a member of the Early Bird Special Club is the punchline.
This whole p.c., islamo-pandering fear of “profiling” boggles the mind…I mean,literally. How can liberals be so f*cking stupid?
DS_ROCKS! on March 15, 2012 at 4:38 pm