Daily Rant – January 6, 2010
January 6, 2010
Now I know why they didn’t catch the underwear bomber before he lit himself on fire and passengers took him down. It is because their head, Janet Napolitano, is profiling the wrong people.
You may remember that back in April of 2009 she distributed a memo telling Homeland Security to watch out for people like us… what she called, “right wing extremists”. So while they are looking for us Constitution reading conservatives, Napolitano has dropped the ball and allowed terrorists to once again rule our flying lives.
Most recently after the Delta flight where the terrorist tried to detonate the explosive underwear he had on, Ms. Napolitano said it showed the system worked. If she is talking about the American spirit, then the system did indeed work. Alert passengers took him down. But if she is talking about Homeland Security, she couldn’t be more wrong. Her failed “system” nearly cost over 200 people their lives.
There were a lot of “ifs” in that incident. But the gist of the story is, if someone is on the no fly list or is a suspect of being a terrorist as this fellow was, then buys a one way ticket in cash and has no checked luggage, that should be a concern and set off all sorts of red flags! But since we don’t have a “war on terror” anymore this will probably happen again and again. The flying public will be the ones to pay the price with longer lines and tighter security because TSA is afraid to profile. (Note: You wouldn’t believe the number of Mormon grannies who are trying to smuggle bottles of liniment oil on the planes these days!)
Is it any wonder that radical Muslims get a free pass when our government is looking at its own citizens just so they don’t offend anyone? Bottom line? Napolitano should go. She has been an embarrassment to Obama and to the country. But as Truman said, “the buck stops here.” So essentially it is Obama’s fault for picking her in the first place.
- FedUpEditor
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