Christmas Kamikaze By Becky Akers
(2009-12-30 at 22:15:37 )

Christmas Kamikaze by Becky Akers

Even Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Deception of Homeland Security
(DHS), occasionally dispenses some truth.-I am grateful to the passengers
and crew aboard Northwest Flight 253, she confessed Saturday, after a
Nigerian tried to emasculate himself as the plane approached Detroit - a
rather extreme reaction, granted, but then Detroit seems to bring out the
kooks. This is the place whose residents celebrate Halloween by torching
their neighborhoods, after all.

And you can bet the Napster is grateful. Those folks saved this silly
charlatans neck, even if not their own. Though Leviathan hyperventilates
about -a Christmas Day massacre with almost 300 people murdered, as Rep.
Peter King (R-NY) babbled, it is doubtful anyone other than the Nigerian
was in danger: blowing off parts of ones body is not likely to bring down
a plane. Whether the wannabee terrorist attacks his manhood, as did Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, or his feet as Richard Reid, the carnage these
idiots inflict will not extend much beyond themselves.

Given the appendage at risk, Abdulmutallab looks to be even less of a
trendsetter than Reid and only the Transportation Security Administration
(TSA) considers Reid trendy. Thanks to his lame-brained stunt in December
2001, the TSA has de-shoed travellers at its airport checkpoints since -
all 2 million daily passengers, 730 million annually, for seven years now.
Ergo, this absurd agency has searched a grand total of 5,110,000,000
pairs of footgear without ever obtaining a single warrant.

Those billions might lead us to conclude that shoe-bombs are not only
devastatingly lethal but a terrorists favorite tactic. Yet Reid was just
the third shoe-bomber in aviation’s history, and the least successful,
too. Why is it that you have never heard of the other two? Because their
bombs killed only one man between them. Air Safety Week reports that in
the mid-1980s, a terrorist flying from Karachi, Pakistan to Amman, Jordan
checked a suitcase containing a shoe with explosives in the heel. They
detonated during a stopover in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, but did little damage.
And in 1995, Ramzi Yousef of First-World-Trade-Center-Bombing notoriety
hid a bombs components in his shoe. He assembled the device aboard his
flight on Philippine Airlines, then stuffed it under a seat. Tragically,
it slaughtered the Japanese business man who sat there on the next
flight, but the crew safely landed the plane.

So if you want to wreak widespread death and destruction, sign up with
the US government rather than Al Qaedas shoe-bombing division. Groin-
grenades are apparently even less lethal, judging from Abdulmutallab, not
to mention their built-in deterrent for faithful fanatics: what fun can a
guy have with all those virgins in Paradise if he has burnt a certain
area to a crisp?

Groin-grenades may be ineffective WMDs, but they are as good as shoe-
bombs at growing governments power. If a lone wacko with a bit of
explosive in his sneaker excuses the TSAs foot-fetish, imagine the hay
Leviathan can make from one with a bomb in his crotch: I think we have to
head in the direction [of virtual strip-searches with millimeter-wave
scanning], the histrionic Pete King intoned. Yes, there is some brief
violation of privacy with a full body scan. But on the other hand, if we
can save thousands of lives, to me, we have to make that decision.

And all because the TSA once again failed. Remember that this agency hit
headlines a mere fortnight ago for leaking its top-secret security manual
on the internet; now, a possible reader slipped past checkpoints with
PETN on him. You might think the TSA would slink away in defeat and shame;
instead, it came out swinging - at passengers. They paid the price with
onerous new restrictions for its bungling, as they always do when an
incident like Flight 253 proves the TSAs utter irrelevance. Perhaps it
hopes that harassing and humiliating us more than usual will distract us
from its Culpability.

The rules are so ridiculous the Mad Hatter must have dreamed them up.
Passengers on international flights arriving in the US must remain in
their seats beginning 1 hour prior to arrival at destination....
Passengers may not have any blankets, pillows, or personal belongings on
the lap beginning 1 hour prior to arrival at destination. Victims also
suffer a tThorough groping at the boarding gate prior to boarding,
concentrating on upper legs and torso - unless they are Heads of State or
Heads of Government. Yep, murderous criminals who start wars and steal
our money are Exempt From The Measures. The TSA has not yet prohibited
passengers from becoming sick at 30,000 feet, but if you do, kindly
conduct your business in the planes loo quickly: an air marshal, his
badge visible arrested one man on Sundays Flight 253 who objected to
emerging while still unwell.

Meanwhile, the Napster was on a truth-telling jag. She also astoundingly
admitted that -the system worked. -The passengers and crew of the flight
took appropriate action.

Janet is not the first of Our Rulers to divulge this damaging info. In
2007, the Government Accountability Office reported that the TSA
considers - able-bodied passengers to be an important layer of aviation
security because they will Engage in Self-Defense actions should an
incident occur onboard commercial aircraft. That is right: taxpayers
deprived of all weapons and defenses but fingernails, whom the TSA
suspects for terrorists and abuses accordingly, not only comprise one of
its often-hyped -layers of security- but an -important- one! Is this
complete, jaw-dropping Insanity or What? And why are we paying $7 billion
a year for these thugs to molest and insult us when, in the end, they
count on us to defeat terrorists? Finally, exactly how does the TSA
expect us to -engage in self-defense actions- after stealing our knitting
needles and pocket-knives? Heck, once a screener finishes robbing us, we
can not even squirt Listerine at a terrorists eyes. Should not these
wingdings hand out Saturday Night Specials at the gate instead?

Alas, Janets truthfulness did not include the No-Fly List. Abdulmutallab
was not on it despite the Feds catching wind of him after his father, a
retired chairman of Nigerias First Bank, helpfully reported his sons
-extreme religious views-to the US embassy and Nigerian security agencies
six months ago. That was enough for Leviathan to have created a record on
Abdulmutallab last month in the intelligence communitys central
repository of information for known and suspected international
terrorists, but not enough to place him on a no-fly list, a US official
said.

What the US official did not say was that the Feds often and purposely
exclude terrorists from such lists. Joe Trento is an investigative
journalist and the author of Unsafe at Any Altitude: Failed Terrorism
Investigations, Scapegoating 9/11, and the Shocking Truth about Aviation
Security Today. He reports, At the Central Intelligence Agency and
Defense Intelligence Agency certain names and aliases are kept from the
airlines and off the no-fly list to protect intelligence assets who are
suspected or known terrorists. Why? Because, as Mr. Trento explains in
his book, American intelligence and counterterrorism officials...
deliberately allow suspected terrorists to fly among innocent passengers
in the hope that a terrorist would lead them to collaborators or even a
terrorist cell. The government that nicks your Neutrogena lest you blow
up your flight merely winks at Terry Q. Terrorists boarding.

At least Attorney General Eric Holders on our side. We will continue to
investigate this matter vigorously, he thundered, -and we will use all
measures available to our government to ensure that Anyone Responsible
For This Attempted Attack Is Brought To Justice.

Yee-haw! Looks like he is abolishing the TSA!

December 29, 2009

Becky Akers writes primarily about the American Revolution.

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