On Sunday, Jan. 3rd (yesterday), a man thwarted security at Newark Liberty International Airport by walking through a terminal exit into a secure area of the airport. The facility was subsequently locked down for hours, stranding passengers and forcing them to go through re-screening while authorities searched for the man.
They never found him.
Today the news outlets are awash in reports of further security measures put in place at airports around the world in places deemed "sponsors of terrorism and countries of interest", according to a Fox News Report, including body scans and pat-downs. All of this comes on the heals of the Nigerian man who attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day.
Pardon my apparent ignorance in this matter, but is further screening really going to do anything? The obvious answer is no, but that doesn't stop government geniuses all around the globe from implementing more and more measures that supposedly make us more secure. It is both maddening and absolute foolishness.
According to the previously mentioned Fox News report, a woman who endured the Newark lock down was asked her opinion on the mater, to which she responded, "I'm not angry that this is happening, but I'm angry that there was a lack of organization."
She's not angry it happened? Why not? Why are more people not outraged by the fact that we are becoming prisoners in our own country while terrorists continue to find new and creative ways to attack us? It is absolutely obscene to think that our nation's intelligence organizations, once the best in the world, knew about the possible Nigerian threat, had received warnings for the terrorist's father in face-to-face meeting with U.S. officials, and knew this man fit the profile of a potential threat almost to a "T". How on earth was he still allowed to board a U.S.-bound plane? If we cannot stop these individual threats, how can we ever expect to defeat our enemies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere?
In deference to the passenger at Newark and the many other Americans who believe we need more restrictive airport security, I understand where you're coming from but I would ask you to stop and really think about this for a minute. Terrorists are not criminals, they are enemy combatants who have declared war on the United States. They employ their tactics of terror rather than an all out assault on our shores because they know it's the only way they can get away with it. But make no mistake, their actions are acts of war.
No amount of security screening, dog-sniffing, body-scanning, patting-down, questioning, etc. will ever stop the terrorists from doing what they do. It's simply is not possible. In fact, have you noticed that with the increase in airport security the number of attempted attacks has increased? There's a good reason for this that many people, especially government officials, don't seem to get.
Any computer programmer, home builder, or car manufacturer can tell you that when building any kind of system, the more complicated the system becomes the more easily that system can be thwarted. It's also true that as systems become more complex their failures are just as complex and extremely costly in both lost production and cost of repair. Airport security is no different.
Every time a new layer of security is added, more people are added to the mix as are more rules, guidelines, and potential mistakes. The only ones who are really affected by this lunacy are the honest travelers just trying to get from point A to point B, yet find their movements restricted by a government that's supposed to stand for individual liberty.
I've heard many a pundit and news correspondent ask the question, "At what price, liberty?" In other words, how far are we willing to go to protect the individual freedom and liberty which are the hallmark of our nation? Are we willing to deal with terrorists in a method that will defeat them and protect our liberty, or will we surrender that liberty and allow the terrorists to dictate the terms of our travel? I say we effectively deal with the terrorists.
But how?
Death!
The Nigerian underwear bomber should have had his travel visa revoked before he ever left his homeland, and had he managed to try and get on the plane anyway, he should have been made familiar with the business end of a semi-automatic rifle. Any potential terrorists currently on our soil should be immediately rounded up and deported, and if they re-enter they should be executed without question. Our intelligence agencies already know who these people are and where they can be found; it's time to stop playing games and deal with it. By the way, have you noticed a glaring lack of terrorist threats at Israeli airports? I wonder why.....
Furthermore, the President and his war council need to step up to the plate and finally conduct this war as war should be conducted. They ought to be making plans to turn any nation that willingly allows terrorist activity into rubble, regardless of whether or not it effects "innocent people." When a nation conducts war, it does so against another nation, not against individual citizens. In the current circumstance Al-Qaeda my not be a nation, but it exists and trains with the knowledge and approval of several different governments. As far as I'm concerned, that makes those governments and their corresponding nations culpable; they are the enemy.
Bleeding hearts will say it's unjust to cause pain and suffering for the individual citizens. I say they need to look at some of the pictures from WWII; Germany laid waste, Hiroshima obliterated, and so on. You win a war by destroying your enemy completely, not by playing paddy-cake through selective fighting. And this, by the way, is how American liberty is preserved for our children and grandchildren. Put the fear of God in the enemy and he will stop attacking you.
You may wonder how a Christian man like me could advocate such a strategy. Its actually very simple. When God sent Israel off to war He almost always instructed them to completely wipe out every man, woman, child, and animal of the enemy. God is smart enough to know if you don't fully wipe out your enemy his kids will grow up to haunt you. If God has no problem with total annihilation, neither do I. As far as I'm concerned there is no better war strategist than the Creator.
In the meantime, I won't be flying anytime soon; the hassle is not worth the trouble in most cases. I'm sure I'm not alone either. Many of us refuse to allow terrorists to dictate our travel so we'll drive our cars instead. My liberty is worth the extra time behind the wheel. As far as I'm concerned, the airports can continue this blind-leading-the-blind foolishness and they'll all fall in the ditch together.
They never found him.
Today the news outlets are awash in reports of further security measures put in place at airports around the world in places deemed "sponsors of terrorism and countries of interest", according to a Fox News Report, including body scans and pat-downs. All of this comes on the heals of the Nigerian man who attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day.
Pardon my apparent ignorance in this matter, but is further screening really going to do anything? The obvious answer is no, but that doesn't stop government geniuses all around the globe from implementing more and more measures that supposedly make us more secure. It is both maddening and absolute foolishness.
According to the previously mentioned Fox News report, a woman who endured the Newark lock down was asked her opinion on the mater, to which she responded, "I'm not angry that this is happening, but I'm angry that there was a lack of organization."
She's not angry it happened? Why not? Why are more people not outraged by the fact that we are becoming prisoners in our own country while terrorists continue to find new and creative ways to attack us? It is absolutely obscene to think that our nation's intelligence organizations, once the best in the world, knew about the possible Nigerian threat, had received warnings for the terrorist's father in face-to-face meeting with U.S. officials, and knew this man fit the profile of a potential threat almost to a "T". How on earth was he still allowed to board a U.S.-bound plane? If we cannot stop these individual threats, how can we ever expect to defeat our enemies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere?
In deference to the passenger at Newark and the many other Americans who believe we need more restrictive airport security, I understand where you're coming from but I would ask you to stop and really think about this for a minute. Terrorists are not criminals, they are enemy combatants who have declared war on the United States. They employ their tactics of terror rather than an all out assault on our shores because they know it's the only way they can get away with it. But make no mistake, their actions are acts of war.
No amount of security screening, dog-sniffing, body-scanning, patting-down, questioning, etc. will ever stop the terrorists from doing what they do. It's simply is not possible. In fact, have you noticed that with the increase in airport security the number of attempted attacks has increased? There's a good reason for this that many people, especially government officials, don't seem to get.
Any computer programmer, home builder, or car manufacturer can tell you that when building any kind of system, the more complicated the system becomes the more easily that system can be thwarted. It's also true that as systems become more complex their failures are just as complex and extremely costly in both lost production and cost of repair. Airport security is no different.
Every time a new layer of security is added, more people are added to the mix as are more rules, guidelines, and potential mistakes. The only ones who are really affected by this lunacy are the honest travelers just trying to get from point A to point B, yet find their movements restricted by a government that's supposed to stand for individual liberty.
I've heard many a pundit and news correspondent ask the question, "At what price, liberty?" In other words, how far are we willing to go to protect the individual freedom and liberty which are the hallmark of our nation? Are we willing to deal with terrorists in a method that will defeat them and protect our liberty, or will we surrender that liberty and allow the terrorists to dictate the terms of our travel? I say we effectively deal with the terrorists.
But how?
Death!
The Nigerian underwear bomber should have had his travel visa revoked before he ever left his homeland, and had he managed to try and get on the plane anyway, he should have been made familiar with the business end of a semi-automatic rifle. Any potential terrorists currently on our soil should be immediately rounded up and deported, and if they re-enter they should be executed without question. Our intelligence agencies already know who these people are and where they can be found; it's time to stop playing games and deal with it. By the way, have you noticed a glaring lack of terrorist threats at Israeli airports? I wonder why.....
Furthermore, the President and his war council need to step up to the plate and finally conduct this war as war should be conducted. They ought to be making plans to turn any nation that willingly allows terrorist activity into rubble, regardless of whether or not it effects "innocent people." When a nation conducts war, it does so against another nation, not against individual citizens. In the current circumstance Al-Qaeda my not be a nation, but it exists and trains with the knowledge and approval of several different governments. As far as I'm concerned, that makes those governments and their corresponding nations culpable; they are the enemy.
Bleeding hearts will say it's unjust to cause pain and suffering for the individual citizens. I say they need to look at some of the pictures from WWII; Germany laid waste, Hiroshima obliterated, and so on. You win a war by destroying your enemy completely, not by playing paddy-cake through selective fighting. And this, by the way, is how American liberty is preserved for our children and grandchildren. Put the fear of God in the enemy and he will stop attacking you.
You may wonder how a Christian man like me could advocate such a strategy. Its actually very simple. When God sent Israel off to war He almost always instructed them to completely wipe out every man, woman, child, and animal of the enemy. God is smart enough to know if you don't fully wipe out your enemy his kids will grow up to haunt you. If God has no problem with total annihilation, neither do I. As far as I'm concerned there is no better war strategist than the Creator.
In the meantime, I won't be flying anytime soon; the hassle is not worth the trouble in most cases. I'm sure I'm not alone either. Many of us refuse to allow terrorists to dictate our travel so we'll drive our cars instead. My liberty is worth the extra time behind the wheel. As far as I'm concerned, the airports can continue this blind-leading-the-blind foolishness and they'll all fall in the ditch together.
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