Airport security seems to have surrendered common sense as a weapon
in the war against terror. In a desperate attempt to appear politically
correct and unbiased toward Arab Muslims, the TSA eschews profiling
techniques. Profiling is when a person is singled out based on certain
traits that they have in common with previous terrorist attacks. For
example, the 9/11 bombers were all young, single, Arab, Muslim, males.
The
lack of profiling begets some silly scenarios, as when a soldier
traveling with his platoon in full uniform had his nail clippers
confiscated…but not his gun. Or, the case in February 2011, when Alaska
State Representative, Sharon Cissna refused to allow the TSA to inspect
the scars of her mastectomy surgery. She was barred from boarding the
plane because common sense might look like bias, even though it is an
undisputed fact that no lady’s prosthetic breast (or nail clippers for
that matter) have ever been used in any assault on land, air, or sea.
On the other hand, if profiling had been allowed, perhaps they would
have prevented what happened on Northwest Airlines flight 253 on
Christmas Eve 2010 when Umar Farouk Abdul-mutal-lab, a 23 year told,
single, Muslim male, who paid cash for a one-way ticket, and checked no
luggage, cruised through airport security without any hassles. But when
the plane was in flight, he promptly activated the explosives stashed
in his underwear. Fortunately, instead of exploding, his underwear just
caught on fire. Three passengers incapacitated him (while, as I imagine,
children nearby chanted “Liar, liar…”). Continue at Clint Archer
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