The guy who tried to blow up a car was screened at an airport some time ago in a procedure started after the Christmas attempted bombing. We stopped when the country he came from, and others, complained.
Think we'll start again? And, possibly start thinking that maybe adherence to Islam, for all the members who are quiet members and abhor violence, needs to be a warning flag for people to check out more closely? With biometric scans so that changing their names doesn't help?
I think, yes.
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Warning flag? Hmmm. Little known fact..they already DO profile young Islamic men. Regardless of complaints from anybody else. And it seems to be working, this is the first close call since 9-11. Its not from lack of trying by radical elements in allied countries.
Its not Islam. Its something else. I think its sneakers, explosive or otherwise. Your guess is as good as mine. But I note that nobody who wears cowboy boots has ever blown up a building. Not even Timmy McVey. He wore sneakers! Looks like a pattern here.
A lot of my upstate New York friends can't come to Canada because they don't have passports...pisses them off big time since we don't require them to get into Canada, they just need 'em to get back home.
The biometric scans are a good idea. Seems that was used (and neatly bypassed) in the movie Angels and Demons. But generally speaking, could be useful.
The only way to defend a border is to examine and screen everybody. (But of course, it wouldn't have made any difference at Oakahoma or Waco, and don't forget that they are growing their own now. Future incidents will involve first and second generation radicals.) If you can't afford that, then, you must screen people purely at random. I mean, truly random. Perhaps with a little common sense thrown in, after all young single women are not ALL drug mules. Not all actors have criminal records for possession. Not all bikers have a gun hidden in the gas tank. But a LOT of guns and drugs have been taken off little old ladies who need the spare cash!
I think your homeland security system should be commended for catching the son of a gun before he got out of the country. The airline should be examined really closely for letting somebody board who was on the no-fly list.
The guy who stood up on his hind legs and said "I had no doubt that we would get him". Dood, he was on an airplane, on the taxi way, he was 5 minutes to getting away! And you had no doubts? Sure buddy! Pull the other leg now you smug arrogant wonk! That was shoe string tackle! Ya got lucky!
The real "hero" is the tee shirt salesman who saw and recognized a bomb when he saw it, and notified the authorities. Did anybody get his name? Got a parade planned for him?
"Eternal vigilance is the price for security".
I don't doubt that they're doing profiling. Until Islamic countries and people come up with something better, that's what we should be doing. Does it suck for them? Yes. Sucks more getting blown up.
I know we are getting into non-bearded, non-swarthy types being terrorists. Thats why behavior profiling is a good idea.
Yeah, I liked the 'had no doubt' comment too. What an idiot.
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