When liquids were banned on US flights, I knew that was yet another slip on the banana peel, putting us ever closer to tumbling into the abyss, and losing our Constitutional rights forever.

Now, due to our refusal to use even a shred of common sense, we are seriously looking at the prospect of bottled water, toothpaste, lip gloss, or shampoo being permanently forbidden from aircraft due their potential as a weapon. What’s next?

Why don’t they just chain us naked to our seats for the duration of the flight?

Using the logic employed by the Federal Government, we should fly naked. ANYTHING in the wrong hands can be used as a weapon.

A businessman’s necktie.

A cup of hot coffee.

A plastic knife embedded in someone’s eye.

A set of car key protruding from a clenched fist.

Should we just continue down this path of further stripping away our rights by banning everything the terrorists try to blow up a plane with, or should we ban the terrorists? This is the most asinine solution to a problem I have ever heard of.

Why should granny have to suffer the indignity of a random security screening?

Why should WWII or Vietnam vets with prostheses be forced to remove them so they can be x-rayed for potential explosives? If they ask this veteran to remove his, they’re going to be severly chastised and loudly upbraided in front of everyone.

Why should Americans accept the government’s assertion that profiling of Muslim terrorists will be ineffective? Racial profiling in and of itself is probably not that effective in terms of fighting inner-city crime, but it would be somewhat effective in singling out people from countries who support terror or even look the other way.

The problem with racial profiling is that the net would be cast too widely and most likely result in scrutiny of too many people who have nothing do with terrorism, wasting precious resources that need to be focused elsewhere.

Behavioral profiling, which the government admits to doing now is a little better, but still not good enough. Behavioral profiling involves looking for incriminating behavior such as profuse sweating, excessive fidgeting, nervousness, etc. Once again, the Washington bureaucrats don’t understand that these sorts of behaviors are only exhibited by people with a conscience.

A terrorist who believes he is acting in God’s name and is about to be pleasured by 72 virgins when he dies probably doesn’t have a lot of guilt. Especially if he has had several years to prepare for his massacre. Much like a sociopathic serial killer who passes a polygraph.

Behavioral profiling makes far too many assumptions. And we all know what happens when we ass-u-me too much. In this case, wrong assumptions will lead to bloodshed.

People who saw other’s heads off with rusty kitchen knives, hold the severed head up to the camera and then gloat while glorifying their god probably won’t bat an eye when asked if anyone else packed their luggage or if it has been in their possession the duration of their trip.

On the other hand, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that religious profiling would be effective. And I’ll tell you why the government has this totally wrong. For starters:

Muslims are the population of people from which 100% of the terrorists involved in the 9/11 come from.

100% of Iraqi terrorists, including the foreign jihadists.

The Chechen terrorists are Muslim.

Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are Muslim.

The terrorists in Indonesia are Muslim.

The terrorists in Pakistan where the London - US airline plot originated are Muslim.

The terrorists who blew up the Madrid trains are Muslim.

The terrorists who blew up the London buses are Muslim.

The terrorists in Sudan are Muslim.

The terrorists in Lebanon are Muslim.

I could keep going, but I think you get the picture. With few exceptions, very nearly all terrorists on Earth are Muslim. A recent Gallup poll asked “should Muslims be subject to special security checks.” 41% of respondents said yes, 57% said no. This should give you an idea of how blind to the threat Americans truly are. And how much work I have left to do.

I cringe every time I hear an average person interviewed on television and completely resigned to this continued gang-rape of our Constitutional rights, but they consider themselves patriotic American’s who are making sacrifices to support their nation in a time of war.

It’s always Americans who have to sacrifice. First it was our jobs in the immigration tidal wave that’s been battering our nation for almost 30 years.

Now it’s our dignity and quite possibly our lives in this jihad.

If Muslim-Americans consider themselves so patriotic, why then, should they not be called upon to sacrifice a few extra minutes in the security line, a little more scrutiny and an occasional interview by police.

Not only are we losing our rights, but in my estimation, people are still going to die.

It’s one thing to give up some of your rights in exchange for something tangible, like the assurance that no terrorist can bring that plane down. It’s entirely another to give up your rights for half-measures that increasingly savvy terrorists can still exploit.

Critics of profiling, including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff appearing on Fox News Sunday, August 13th, 2006, say profiling is wrong and ineffective because it wouldn’t have caught Jose Padilla or Richard Reid.

But it probably would have caught Mohammed Atta and the other 18 demon spawn. Just because it wouldn’t catch all terrorists is not a valid reason to refuse to profile. Is it ?

Even if it only caught one third of terrorists, you should adopt that measure and then compliment it with something to catch the rest of them. You don’t throw it out because it isn’t one hundred percent effective. Since when does the Federal Imperial Government ever achieve one hundred percent accuracy in anything??

Why then, are they basing their decision to profile on whether or not they can achieve 100 accuracy? Pure, unadulterated, political considerations. Once again, at the future expense of the lives of innocents.

Critics say profiling would alienate Muslims. I say “Too bad.” If they wish to be part of the solution, they can begin globally denouncing the beheadings and bloodbaths.

It’s time for Muslims who want peace to start turning their backs on those who practice this perverted brand of Islamic Fascism, turn them in or banish them from their villages instead of calling for us to stop being the aggressor.

Hmm. Alienate Muslims; Allow Muslims to annihilate Americans. Those are our choices. Now let me see…

The airline companies are insane if they expect me to spend hundreds of dollars so I can;

A). Wait in line for hours.

B). Watch my wife get fondled, and her underwire bra wanded repeatedly.

C). Have my toiletries and bottled water seized.

D). Be subjected to random security checks when I object to my wife being fondled.

 

So that after being molested, I can:

A). Board an aircraft.

B). Then die inside a flaming missile when it hurtles to the ground at 400 MPH and disintegrates after a terrorist’s bomb explodes in the cargo hold. Because, the truth is, while they banned my water and my wife’s lipstick, they don’t x-ray all cargo and refuse to scrutinize Muslims, whether they be the cell members on the airplane who are the plot’s foot soldiers or their support network, the employees at the airport who assist them.