By Frankllin Raff Posted: January 04, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 We have once again been subjected to a mess of bombast in the downstream media, this time on the topic of the narrowly averted terror attack of underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, evidently not another Swedish Lutheran jihadist. Talking heads deftly posit, keenly elucidate, cleverly analyze and deconstruct the nuances and counter-nuances of airplane security. "When is profiling profiling? Does it work? Should it? Why doesn't it? And what does it really mean?" As we nervously shuffle through the airport lines, waiting for the next attack, we now learn that the touted "full body scanners" are essentially taking nudie pics. Not very artful ones, by the way, and in detail so rich I am surprised the consumer market for portable models hasn't already flourished. Naturally, you are not allowed to review the pictures of your naked body. They are to be seen only by the strange man in the corner. Perhaps you thought it was humiliating enough to take off your shoes and submit to a frisking. To be sure, those "scanning" jobs will become very attractive to persons with certain unsavory proclivities. Maybe that is one of those subjects best left un-discussed, like the enduring problem a certain high-line national department store has in keeping foot-fetishists from taking jobs in the ladies shoe section. Facts are facts, however. And all of them, which is to say the creepy naked pictures, the whole die, die, infidel pigs! thing, and the fact the TSA might at any time once again release its entire security procedures manual to the world over the Internet, makes for very good news for the videoconferencing industry, and very bad news for us. We would like to keep flying, however, and will probably submit to all sorts of humiliations to the point of full body cavity searches, which is the next logical step on our "reactive" approach to security. At the same time, we must heed the words of master negotiator Herb Cohen: A tactic perceived is no tactic. "Blanket" approaches, such as raw profiling, can allow our enemies a clear playbook for defeating security measures. Recall if you will that the "shoe bomber" and "underwear bomber" were Anglo-Saxon-Jamaican and Nigerian, respectively. So until DHS implements a "do fly" list, comprised of docile (if impatient) law-abiding patriots of all faiths, we should look to an existing, tested, supremely effective security model capable of securing our skies and cities, and giving us some degree of personal comfort. We should emulate El Al, the national airline of Israel. READ FULL STORY >December 26, 2009 - I hope we learn from this
Video provided by TheREALjohnny2k
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment