{"id":16355,"date":"2009-12-26T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16355"},"modified":"2009-12-26T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T18:48:00","slug":"idiot-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16355","title":{"rendered":"Idiot bombs (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed in his attempt to bomb a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, but I shudder to think what’s going on behind those beady little eyes of TSA officials. I’ll admit that I have a special hatred for the peckerwoods who man the security gates at airports. <\/p>\n

When I flew to Panama on election day, 2004 wearing my Vets For Bush t-shirt, I was harassed at Reagan National Airport by several TSA nimrods with searches and then again at Miami. Uncharacteristically, I complied with their nimroddery but it coalesced my pure, burning hatred for those glorified, overpaid rent-a-cops who would otherwise be on welfare.<\/p>\n

I’m absolutely delighted that the White House has finally recognized a terror attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A White House official said the incident was an attempted act of terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How long have we waited for an act of terror to be called an act of terror, attempted or otherwise? Of course, TSA, who has billions of dollars of equipment and thousands of employees, none of which is in Nigeria where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab boarded with his chemicals strapped to his leg, is trying to prove they’re on the job;<\/p>\n

Federal officials imposed stricter screening measures after the incident. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TSA is window dressing for the war against terror. Their only job is to present the appearance of our Federal government’s commitment to our safety which means that much of their “security measures” are harassment. <\/p>\n

Nothing pisses me off more to open my checked bags at my destination to find my lotions and creams in a plastic baggie with a note of admonition from the federal government. Seriously? Search my bags, but don’t leave me a note about putting my toothpaste in a baggie.<\/p>\n

Officials at Detroit’s airport are warning travelers that it’ll take them 3 hours to get through security there today. Why? Are they shutting the barn door after the horses all got out?<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> So the brilliance of the FAA comes through. The new restrictions on passengers are, according to Fox News, passengers must remain in their seats an hour before landing, no access to carry on bags an hour from destination, no carry on items will be allowed on passengers’ laps an hour from landing. None of those things would have prevented this particular attack. <\/p>\n

Why can’t we have restrictions like, oh, I don’t know, no one on terror watch lists is allowed a visa, people coming from weak security airports get screened again when they get to civilization. I’m sorry, am I making too much sense again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed in his attempt to bomb … Idiot bombs (Updated)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}