aquapub
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2005
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- Location
- America (A.K.A., a red state)
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Conservative
Most of the politically correct, completely impotent airline security idiocy that has happened since 9/11 is the result of the only Clinton Democrat left in office by President Bush when he took over: Secretary of Transportation, Norman Mineta. Before 9/11, Bush had to be figuring that even a Democrat couldn’t screw up a position as insignificant as this one, but then 9/11 put this genius at center stage, hence all the politically correct searches of little old white ladies from Iowa when 100% of people who’ve attacked American planes have been young, Arab, Muslim men; hence all the hours spent needlessly having your pockets picked by screeners instead of just sealing the cockpits and scanning the cargo; hence all the “controversy” over arming the pilots.
Think about it. If you screen passengers with just the standard x-ray machines and metal detectors, letting them get on the plane sometime within the decade in which they arrived at the airport, the worst thing a terrorist could do is have a bomb in their baggage (which would be covered if we started scanning cargo) or use a butter knife to take/kill hostages.
If you make the cockpits as impossible to access as it is for the Republican side of an argument to make its way into the New York Times, the terrorists, at best, could then only kill all the passengers on the plane with their butter knives (and even that is only possible if the plane is full of liberals instead of people with spines) and still wouldn’t be able to crash the planes into anything.
The common sense policies that Republicans have been pushing for are finally coming to fruition. The TSA is now putting less of their focus on confiscating sharp instruments (anything can be used as a weapon), and putting more focus on detecting explosives. Naturally, Democrats have now begun coming out in protest, touting their clearly irrational objections to relaxed passenger screening and calling for more screeners in fact. Apparently Democrats haven’t figured out that MORE bureaucracy nearly always makes things worse.
It’s not like we’re traumatizing young Arab men with the tragedy of airline profiling/inconveniences to prevent mass murder or anything (not that I’m against that). We’re just trying to rescue the TSA from Democrats incompetence and political correctness.
Think about it. If you screen passengers with just the standard x-ray machines and metal detectors, letting them get on the plane sometime within the decade in which they arrived at the airport, the worst thing a terrorist could do is have a bomb in their baggage (which would be covered if we started scanning cargo) or use a butter knife to take/kill hostages.
If you make the cockpits as impossible to access as it is for the Republican side of an argument to make its way into the New York Times, the terrorists, at best, could then only kill all the passengers on the plane with their butter knives (and even that is only possible if the plane is full of liberals instead of people with spines) and still wouldn’t be able to crash the planes into anything.
The common sense policies that Republicans have been pushing for are finally coming to fruition. The TSA is now putting less of their focus on confiscating sharp instruments (anything can be used as a weapon), and putting more focus on detecting explosives. Naturally, Democrats have now begun coming out in protest, touting their clearly irrational objections to relaxed passenger screening and calling for more screeners in fact. Apparently Democrats haven’t figured out that MORE bureaucracy nearly always makes things worse.
It’s not like we’re traumatizing young Arab men with the tragedy of airline profiling/inconveniences to prevent mass murder or anything (not that I’m against that). We’re just trying to rescue the TSA from Democrats incompetence and political correctness.