Your Security Is In The Very Best Of Hands

Political correctness will be the death of us yet.

My first impression was that it was most likely an elderly Irish Catholic woman, you know how hateful those right-wing Christian extremists are, clinging to guns and bibles. I was shocked * shocked * I tell you, when I saw the picture of a swarthy Middle-Eastern man! How could the AP screw up so badly?

and yet, with the 3 strikes law still firmly in place, you can get 20 years for shoplifting.

what an abysmally screwed up system.

welcome to the 21st century noted for madness and rampant political correctness.

Stop Muslim immigration.

"no indications the disturbance was related to terrorism"

"I want to kill all the Jews" is a fairly good indication of terrorist leanings, I would think.

The FBI were probably waiting to see if the guy turned out to be something other than a terrorist ... a Nazi perhaps.

We certainly wouldn't want to label someone a "terrorist" simply for uttering terrorist rhetoric, would we?

Now, if he'd said "I want to kill all the Jewish homosexuals", that would be a hate crime, of course!

This is either a bunch of independent crazies or it is part of the plan to keep things on high alert...war of attrition since this high security costs money, causes irritation and ideally provikes an irrational response from America.....part of isolating America I would suspect, if it is part of the plan.

Sadly, Al Queda has one characteristic of the West pretty well nailed...we dont like to fight, the populace would rather live their lives and is willing to accept apparently reasonable compromises. Alternativel, direct attacks "wake the beast" and when awoken the West brings enormous resources and firepower to bear.

In the semantics of Professor John Keegan, typical "oriental" attack strategy, deception and attrition versus a Western strategy of direct use of technology and firepower.

I would think that in the previous post that if the Iguana rain storm had fallen on someone packing a Koran/Coran the FBI would be all over that as terrorism.
"Political Correctness" the root for all weasels. (no disrespect to weasels)

Sounding more and more like conspiracy.

And you wonder why Americans are skeptical of their government taking over health care. If they can't stop an underwear bomber, how will they perform open heart surgery?

Always nice to have a kid when you're 16.

Just a loonie, I think. But the forms that looniness take are informative ("I want to kill all the Jews" etc.)

We can expect the next round of 'Flying Imam's' anytime now.

There have been many dry runs by the Islamists to test the system and how they can expect 'authorities ' to react.

Well the 'authorities' are PC idiots and helpful to the terrorists.

The stupid PC behavior of those idiots in charge has pretty much cleared the runway for the next batch of jihadi bombers.

takes, whatever.

oh, those peace-loving muslims! -

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/msnbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=23205639

I would like to know the FBIs definition of terrorism.....

I still say we need Steven Segal, Lawman to oversee security

Michael Leiter, like all big liberals are hedonists at heart. It's all feel good stuff in their life and being pulled off of a ski hill or golf course (Obama) to deal with this terror nonsense is not a 'feel good' prospect.

When a Leftist is on vacation, it doesn't matter if it's the president or one of his minions, they all follow the terms of their union agreement. Their vacation is their time. ... no matter what.

Definitely a set-up deal. Who in their right mind is going to board a freakin' aircraft and utter those words? In the end this guy will get a free
pass because he didn't specifically threaten anyone and his speech is protected under the First Amendment.
Time for some frontier justice at the hands of the passengers.

There are going to be a LOT more incidents of non-terrorist passengers going ballistic while on-board. The stress and utter boredom of being caged up in the airport for hours prior to boarding, plus having a few drinks prior to boarding, and more enroute, are the ingredients.
I'm finished with flying...

If Leiter should be fired because he stayed on the ski slopes then Chairman O should also be fired for staying on the golf course.

Took O four days to say anything about it.

@DaninVan:

That's what they want. The plot is to limit people's mobility. Mobility means independence, opportunity for individuals to do business and move to more favourable environment. Take away people's mobility, make them declare all contents and you've killed people's initiative and entrepreneurship.

Do the accounting of the above and you'll see who is interested in all that. Do the accounting people, it is eye opening.

A sad and scary thought is the fact that airports do not have security at the entrance.

Anyone can walk into an airport carrying anything in a bag or strapped to their body and wade into a crowd.

Why bother getting on the plane.

"I'm finished with flying..."

Wait till the first bus blows up. But hope not, it is faster to drive to between Edmonton and Calgary than to fly now.

As another thought. This guy raises such a ruckus that he may not have even been the prime. Assuming a plot...once again human nutiness knows no bounds. There is always a copycat who perceives glory and attention, or just someone with just a bad set of brain wiring.

Anyway, this is why they need to interview the rest of the passengers. Watch the response, adjust plans accordingly. Did the guy eventually says that he was calm and try to get them to proceed. Good that they returned to base.

Anyway, the islomoterorists are hapy either way, one more disruption, one more cost to the economy, one more dollar that cant fund US military presence in the long run.

One of the hallmarks of a security system is the presense of false-alarms.
It is likely coincidental that the guy, with bad wiring, is of Palestinian extraction. The Vancouver International incident with the guy from Poland is similar.
Some folk just do not respond well to the stress of unfamiliar, overbearing security apparatus....I don't....
It's just like having the toaster setting off your ADT and having a fire-engine arrive at your door. That occurred here....$h1t happens...

And he is the Inman of what Canadian mosque????

FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said "there were no indications the disturbance was related to terrorism."

Probably just another "religion of peace" adherent praying out loud.

"A sad and scary thought is the fact that airports do not have security at the entrance.

Anyone can walk into an airport carrying anything in a bag or strapped to their body and wade into a crowd. "

I was thinking *just that* as I waited for my bag to reappear from the depths of my airport last monday. "some jerk could walk in here with a big samonsite packed with boomex leap onto the carousel and make everyone's life a little nastier"

Ugh. God forbid.

On being asked whether he wanted to surrender Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab gritted his teeth and replied "Nuts"

By the time Mansor Mohammad Asad makes it on to a no-fly list he will have already self-detonated somewhere. This a result of the lethal infection of political correctness which forces all bureaucrats in the public sector (and obviously, the US Military) to ignore the enemy until he acts.

Privatize and deregulate the airport security systems to allow competition, intelligence (extreme discrimination) and creativity to out-smart the Islamists. They are after all, stuck in the seventh Century. It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to identify and isolate them.

We in the West can either confront or surrender, there is no "peaceful" coexistence with Islam. Extending Western liberal values like Freedom of Worship to an unreformed and demographically viral theology, which undeniably leads to feudal theocracy, is suicidal. The West needs to adopt a slogan like: Get out of the Seventh Century or get out of the West. Not a pretty picture, I'm afraid, but neither is the alternative.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab gritted his teeth and replied "Nuts...

Are you sure that wasn't "OOH my nuts"?

Religion of Pieces strikes again...looks to me like the Copts are the only immigrants we should allow from an otherwise violence infected population. Ten to one the 'causus belli' was a fraudulent claim and just an excuse to kill kaffirs.

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Clashes erupt after Egypt church shooting

Cairo, Jan 7 : Huge crowds of Christians clashed with police in the southern Egyptian town of Nagaa Hamadi Thursday after a shooting outside a Coptic Christian church that left six teenagers and one policeman dead.

Footage aired on Qatar's al-Jazeera satellite television network showed police using batons to beat back angry crowds of Christians protesting the delay of the victims' burial outside the hospital morgue where the bodies were being kept.

The crowds dispersed after the corpses were released, local parishioners told DPA, adding that the bodies had been buried.

The clashes followed Wednesday night's drive-by shooting that killed six Coptic Christian teenagers leaving a Christmas Eve mass and one Muslim policeman guarding the church. Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan 7.

Police in the town, some 650 km south of Cairo, said they were searching for three suspects identified in their initial investigations.

Bishop Kirollos of the Nagaa Hamadi Diocese blamed the police for the incident, saying that he had asked security officers to take special precautions during Christmas celebrations.

Kirollos said he had received a text message on his mobile saying, "It is your turn", al-Jazeera reported on its website.

He said townspeople had also threatened his parishioners in the streets, and that some had shouted "We will not let you have festivities", the station reported.

Sectarian relations in the town have been tense since Muslim residents rioted in response to the rape of a 12-year-old girl, allegedly by a Christian man.

According to government figures, Christians make up approximately 10 percent of Egypt's population, though many Christians say they believe the real figure is higher.

Someone said something interesting: the full body scanners were ordered prior to Dec 25. Which means the planning stage started even earlier. Which means research stage started month if not years ago. Who knew that there would be underwear bombing on Christmas 2009?

"Witnesses told investigators who boarded the plane that Asad was loud, disruptive and claimed to be Palestinian."

Ah, the man's delusional,so any act he commits,like bringing a real bomb aboard and blowing up a plane full of people will have been NOT his fault as he suffers a mental condition.

Bi-polar is the new "get away with anything" card.

Was this a "real" air travel terror incident or just another security test?

They're getting hard to tell apart without a billion dollar security hardware upgrade :-)

Bring back Dubya!!

Bring back Dubya!!

Silicon Valley Jim @ 10:45: "Now, if he'd said "I want to kill all the Jewish homosexuals", that would be a hate crime, of course."

Well, you know. That would be a tough call. If the emphasis was on homosexuals, then, for sure, it'd be a hate crime of the first order, but Jewish? You know those Zionist. They have it coming, don't you know.

And if he'd wanted to kill all the English, Jewish homosexuals, that would have been a Mel Gibson Movie.

I'm a little confused here, on a side note(?)
Shouldn't the larger International airports be paying for their scanners?
They certainly pay for airport security, or so I've been led to believe. The cost would no doubt be passed on through landing fees and then back onto the paying passengers.
Since airports are privately owned and operated, why is the Fed. Gov't picking up the cost?

Ayn Rand grew up in the Soviet Union/Russia. She was born in Czarist times but was a teenager during the 1920s. She wrote "We the Living" during her first years in America, with the memories of Bolshevik dictatorship still fresh in her memory. Everyone facing three more years of Obanism (including Canadians) should read this novel because, in it, Ayn describes the behavior of people determined to LIVE in the face of despotism. Contrary to popular believe, Russia under Czar Nicolas II, was emerging as a country with a bright future prior to WWI. The middle class was rapidly growing, undermining the absolute power of aristocrats and the elders in the Greek Orthodox Church. The blossoming middle class were business men and scientists/builders etc. They wanted 'access' to wealth and they were getting access via taxes and production. Education was better and more accessible than it was in the United States or Canada. If WWI had not happened and/or if the Czar had hired competent Military leaders Russia would not have allowed the slaughter of Russian soldiers for the benefit of France and England. As it was, the intelligentsia/church head huachos in Russia were nervous that the working class people would demand rights that would undermine their own wealth and power so they did not demand accountability.

Nick II really did not like his job, had there not been a war, he would have been happy to live as a figurehead in the country. The road to democracy was being paved and the power brokers were nervous - also Russia had not abandoned the Gold Standard as had the West so the Ruble was solid. As in USA today- something had to be done to keep the people down - the bigshots invented WWI and the convoluted Treaties signed by different countries with each other proved the perfect vehicles for destruction of the middle class in Russia, Germany, England and the USA. Evil is not naive or stupid - WWI was fought for nothing good: WWI was the direct cause of WWII and the Russian Revolution. Widespread destruction and a culling of the best and brightest men of the 20th century consolidated the power in the hands of evil human haters - the only 'problem' continued to be the USA and the Constitution of the USA, insuring prosperity for the citizens of USA. The evil human haters invented PC and Obama - this mess in the USA is not about USA, it is about World Slavery. It affects all of us and it is our duty as free citizens to be concerned because if the USA goes down the bad guys will win.

Ayn Rand, in "we the Living" describes how former powerful people were cowed into cowering babbling idiots looking for a silver lining in the sewer pipe of Communism. If the people had been less poor, if the population had not been bled blue by WWI and the Revolution, if the best and brightest had not died in action, if Russia had not sold all the gold and abandoned the Gold Standard....the Bolsheviks would never have succeeded. The human hating bigshots knew that the Russian 'moment' would likely not repeat itself in the USA (because of the Constitution) so they chose to de-educate the people and dumb them down with propaganda and agenda driven floods of hostile immigrants to divide citizens. Into the gnashing and grinding of teeth the human haters introduced - Obama! - and most Americans were stoolies with their heads down and their mouths closed as they chose to ignore all the alarming information about the man running for President. Americans were tired of being forced to defend themselves, they wanted to live.

In Russia/Soviet Union of the 1920's the return to business via the NEP of the 1920's let the war weary people to believe that sanity was returning and things would get back to normal so that people could LIVE - it was just a ruse to give Lenin time to consolidate his absolute power over all soviet captives. People thought that they could skirt around the edges, not make waves, not demand...that they would be 'allowed' to live their lives..it is all in that slim book and people who care about living should all read it because it is a valuable warning about what is happening here.

Freedom is not free and it is always being threatened - if we want to be 'allowed' to live, we must fight for our Freedom, IMO. Demand accountability, squawk loud,learn how to say NO, read "We the Living', visit SDA and freedom loving web sites and listen to the Glen Beck/Rush Limberg shows. Educate.

This is why installing machines won't work. If the same idiots who allow this lunatic on a plane to begin with are manning the machines, I'm sure TONS of things will be overlooked.

Because it seems that most of the people "at the top" of our security operations are idiots, I actually don't feel very safe anywhere.

I'm glad that I hardly ever fly, and plan to even less now, but I still feel nervous on the Toronto Transit Commission and at the corner of Dundas and Yonge -- and at a whole lot of other crowded locations.

I don't think I'm being paranoid. I just have absolutely no confidence that the people paid to keep me and my family safe are anywhere near doing their jobs. They've fallen for the politically correct option so they won't offend some of our new immigrants, so they'll be seen as "open" and "tolerant," as though these values trump honesty, fairness, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and hard work.

Well, how about being tolerant of those of us whose antecedents built Canada and its democratic freedoms? How about being tolerant of OUR children and grandchildren by not leaving them vulnerable to a questionable and increasingly dangerous future?

It infuriates me that we've become such surrender monkeys, willing to throw OURSELVES under the bus, all the while yelling at the bus driver to avoid hitting those most intent on defeating and dominating us. All the terrorists will do at this point is accelerate the process -- and wonder why it was so easy.

They're playing on our weaknesses right under our noses. They're using our own asinine laws fostering "multiculturalism," and lawfare, to subjugate us and take over.

What will it take to wake us up? I really wonder.

Islam: an enemy of western civilization.

"In the liberal imagination, there is just this “extremist ideology” out there somewhere and somehow this unfortunate Muslim boy fell under its spell, but no one can be exactly sure how or why it happened."

"And so, when it comes to the liberal left trying to digest Abdulmutallab and his suicidal quest, perplexed dismay becomes a much safer hiding place than honesty, because the basic truth threatens the very survival of the liberal faith."
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"The Islamic Roots of Abdulmutallab’s Suicidal Odyssey

The liberal milieu and mainstream media are baffled: What could have possibly led the 23-year-old Nigerian boy Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to attempt jihadi suicide on a passenger plane? How could such a nice, educated Islamic boy, who grew up in a rich and prosperous family, have come under the “radical” and “extreme” influences that set him on his violent course? It’s just all so mysterious.

It’s so mysterious that the news anchors on CNN continue to incredulously ask each other and their guests these questions — back and forth, over and over again, in a cyclical circus that has no end and that never produces the most obvious answer staring any sensible person right in the face. In the liberal imagination, there is just this “extremist ideology” out there somewhere and somehow this unfortunate Muslim boy fell under its spell, but no one can be exactly sure how or why it happened. All one can be sure of is that an adversarial culture or ideology must not be blamed and that America, somewhere, somehow, must definitely be at fault.

And so, when it comes to the liberal left trying to digest Abdulmutallab and his suicidal quest, perplexed dismay becomes a much safer hiding place than honesty, because the basic truth threatens the very survival of the liberal faith. For the liberal to accept the evident reason why Abdulmutallab set off on his suicide odyssey would necessitate him having to completely shed himself of his entire worldview and personal identity. The much easier route, therefore, is to keep oneself confused and to stay focused on how American capitalism and imperialism must have surely had something to do with it — even though, as is the case with the cause of Islamic terror itself, these factors are so obviously not involved in Abdulmutallab’s suicidal and murderous yearnings (i.e., Abdulmutallab comes from a privileged, wealthy, and educated life, etc.).

What the lib-left milieu simply can’t digest is what Islamic terrorists like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab themselves insist motivated them. And these are things like, you know, reading certain religious texts and following a certain religion’s teachings. They are things, sort of like, well, following Islam and reading the Koran and stuff like that.

When all is said and done, the true reasons why Abdulmutallab embarked on his murderous mission of suicide are completely understandable — and only to be expected — in the context of his Islamic odyssey. And Abdulmutallab himself clearly points to the influence of his religion in his own personal writings on the internet.

In his 300 postings under the name “farouk1986” in an online forum, Abdulmutallab sheds light on how the Islamic theology that he follows marginalized him from human life and led him on his hateful and suicidal road. One of the main themes in his postings, for instance, is a recurring complaint about his loneliness and how he has “never found a true Muslim friend.” While liberals will expectedly blame capitalism for Abdulmutallab’s estrangement, a certain question has to be asked, a question that will never be asked, or answered, on CNN or in the Nation magazine:

From where, oh where, did Abdulmutallab get the self-ostracizing and hateful idea that only Muslims could be his friends?"

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-islamic-roots-of-abdulmutallabs-suicidal-odyssey/

The lib-left = the ultimate surrender monkeys

Here is the liberal-left mindless mind Occupied by O and its cOmmissars.

Surprise! "*Heeere’s Muhammed!".
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>>> "Napolitano surprised by AQ determination.

I just heard this on Fox. Napolitano saying she was surprised by the determination of Al Qaeda. As one commentator said. It's like she hasn't read a newspaper in a decade. THE u.s. IS IN SERIOUS DANGER WITH THIS BUNCH IN CONTROL."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2423441/posts
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"*Heeere’s Muhammed!

In Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror movie “The Shining”, Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, in an attempt to murder his wife and 6-year old son, chops his way through a closed door with an axe, shouting “Heeere’s Johnny!” It has become an iconic image.

Last Friday, the Shining was reenacted in real life, when a 28-year old Somali man, armed with an axe, smashed his way through the glass door into the bungalow of the 74-year old cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, in a middle-class suburb of the Danish town of Aarhus. The door, made of reinforced bullet-proof glass, eventually gave way, but Mr. Westergaard, who uses a walking-stick, had time to get to the bedroom of his 5-year old granddaughter, wake her up and lock themselves up in his bathroom.

The Westergaard bathroom has been converted into a panic room. It has a steel door and is equipped with an emergency button directly linking it to the police. It took the officers three minutes to arrive. Meanwhile, the Somali was smashing at the steel door with his axe, shouting “Blood” and “Revenge” as he tried to work his way in: “Heeere’s Muhammed!”

When the police arrived, the Somali attacked an officer with his axe before he was shot in the knee and shoulder by other officers."
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4256

Flom Mao Stlong's Dictionaly of Mockely and Lidicure: m'O.

"AFP is running a photo in which the top of his head is cropped out (see here), maybe as a courtesy."
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"Dyeing to Fight Terrorists

Watching President Obama's Thursday afternoon talk on terrorism I was struck by his uniformly dark hair. This comes a day after the Drudge Report headlined "The Year Barack Went Gray." See for example this picture posted January 1, or this one of him returning from his trip to Hawaii. Now there is no trace of gray whatsoever.

AFP is running a photo in which the top of his head is cropped out (see here), maybe as a courtesy. I suppose the White House wants the president to convey an image of youth and vigor when discussing such a serious topic, but the sudden change was a little bit distracting. At least we know they pay attention to Drudge."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/07/dyeing-fight-terrorists/

What is the point of all this passenger security when there is no security on the employee side? I read where major airports have massive delays in recieving employee security clearance. Some poeple are working months without any security clearance. We all know how many of those are questionable.

jema 54 @ 4:38 Great summation. My gpa did not get sucked in by NEP and left in 26. His two brothers stayed and paid the price, one in 37 with a bullet to the head and the other died in a labour camp mine in the Urals.

Freedom is not free, but try and tell that to a progressive.

There are two wars going. World War III with the Islamists and a domestic war with those who want to create the new "Soviet Man" in the west.

Almost sounds like paranoia or a conspiracy theory.

I got $10 says Kathy Shaidle is a Christian, likely of the ultramontane sort.

Interpreting a Terrorist Alert…..

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to a "Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the great fire of 1666.

The Scots raised their threat level from "Pissed Off" to "Let's get the Bastards" They don't have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line in the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide".. The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender." The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France 's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability. It's not only the French who are on a heightened level of alert. Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout loudly and excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing." Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."

The Germans also increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have two higher levels: "Invade a Neighbor" and "Lose".

Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual, and the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.

The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.

Americans meanwhile and as usual are carrying out pre-emptive strikes, on all of their allies, just in case.

And in the southern hemisphere... New Zealand has also raised its security levels - from "baaa" to "BAAAA!". Due to continuing defense cutbacks (the airforce being a squadron of spotty teenagers flying paper aeroplanes and the navy some toy boats in the Prime Minister's bath), New Zealand only has one more level of escalation, which is "Shit, I hope Australia will come and rescue us". Australia , meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to "She'll be right, mate". Three more escalation levels remain: "Crikey!", "I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend" and "The barbie is cancelled". So far no situation has ever warranted use of the final escalation level.

peterj, that was good! Did you write it?