Since this new airline attack by an Isalamic extremist, America has suffered the indignity of a massive wedgie- forcing people to re-evaluate their underwear.
The Obama administration has been criticized for not taking the matter seriously, but to attribute setting one’s pants aflame on board a 210 thousand pound flying machine- a “terrorist act”, instead of an incredibly insane suicide attempt, is stretching matters a bit low under the waistline.
Religious fanatics have been known to do unspeakable deeds. But if someone kills because he believes a dog is telling him to- does this mean we have a war on dogs? Or if someone “Goes Postal”, does this mean a massive conspiracy exists within the U.S. mail?
Now security is beefed up at airports and full invasive searches as well as electronic scans that see right through to your tiny T’s and bikini bottoms are in place. Instead of securing our borders to outsiders, we let ourselves become the objects of investigation. Who has the right to know if I’m sporting my new boy briefs or lacy thong? For the stupidity of the one- all must suffer?
Do you ever think that maybe it’s all a vicious circle of conditioning? One crazy man equals millions of tax dollars for new X-ray machine companies, government allotments for airport improvements, advanced security system analysts, seventeen year old screeners who get their kicks from examining people’s unmentionables, and every person in line vowing to go buy new underwear as soon as the ordeal is over.
Actually, there has been a 20 percent rise in the sale of undergarments in the last week. Can you imagine the back room humor after an oversized woman? Or the screams of a small child as space age technology whizzes around her body? In brief, we are letting the word “terror” hit us in our most private of regions. The Underwear Bomber is immortalized as we let the Islamic world know America can be intimidated by the scoolyard bully. We give him our lunch money and go home to lick our wounds.
Political analysts say that our enemies were victorious in their mission with Northwest Airlines flight 253, but the real tragedy is getting caught with our pants down and then letting ourselves be exposed over and over again in our undies from now on in the name of homeland security.
But the real point is what we all want: for the experts to do their job well, to feel safe on a plane, to have the right to bring the things we need, to not be overly invaded in our bodies, and to not live our lives in fear.
How do we have this? By making our people more afraid? Strip searches, interrogation of American citizens, and the all popular European phrase- “Papers please…” ?
Had the terrorist been successful in detonating the explosive, it would have killed everyone on board. I don’t want people dying due to laziness and incompetence. If people don’t like the searches, then drive or walk. We don’t have proper security right now due to consumers whining.
They already have many security standards- and liquids shouldn’t be allowed on carryons anyway. Maybe you know how flying is, but it seems when one security is accentuated- they forget the most basic of other searches. will they rely on just the body scan and overlook the carryons, the cargo luggage, shoes, and the 90 year old woman with c-4 in her purse? Can’t we make what we have now more secure, more exact, without being overly public about it?