Israelification: Great Idea, thus it Will Never Happen.
I have been spouting off since 9/11 about why the fuck are we creating another piece of shit government agency to deal with Airport Security? Why are we not just writing the Israelis a nice big fat check and a open ended government contract to handle all our airport security? Hubby sent me an article the other day that definitely makes the case for it. Great stuff…
A couple of my favorite points the author makes, and many are made…
Five security layers down: you now finally arrive at the only one which Ben Gurion airport shares with Pearson – the body and hand-luggage check.
“But here it is done completely, absolutely 180 degrees differently than it is done in North America,” Sela said.
“First, it’s fast – there’s almost no line. That’s because they’re not looking for liquids, they’re not looking at your shoes. They’re not looking for everything they look for in North America. They just look at you,” said Sela. “Even today with the heightened security in North America, they will check your items to death. But they will never look at you, at how you behave. They will never look into your eyes … and that’s how you figure out the bad guys from the good guys.”
Of course they don’t look anyone in the eyes! This is America and that requires a fucking spine as a populous. We have spent two generations weeding these horrible habits out of our citizens. Do not make eye contact. There is a fucking major corporation, which will remain nameless, who actually has a policy on how much eye contact is acceptable before it is “threatening”. That number is less than five seconds. Are you fucking kidding me?
“Do you know why Israelis are so calm? We have brutal terror attacks on our civilians and still, life in Israel is pretty good. The reason is that people trust their defence forces, their police, their response teams and the security agencies. They know they’re doing a good job. You can’t say the same thing about Americans and Canadians. They don’t trust anybody,” Sela said. “But they say, `So far, so good.’ Then if something happens, all hell breaks loose and you’ve spent eight hours in an airport. Which is ridiculous. Not justifiable.”
It is fucking sticking your head in the sand. That is what this country has become of late. How do I know this? Because countries like Afghanistan and Yemen etc still fucking exist! They haven’t be wiped off the map on sheer fucking principle for fucking with our way of life. Prince Fuknut isn’t the problem so much as the culmination of the pussification of America. He cannot even say the word terrorist. He is so fucking politically correct and so fucking dickless that he cannot conceive of there being a scenario he cannot buy/spend his way out of.
We do not have a terrorist problem in this country, people! We have a Healthcare crisis. Yes yes we do. Really, I mean it. That is the central crisis we face. Yes yes it is… move along now.. nothing happening here… nothing happening in Detroit… oh no no no that wasn’t a terrorist attack! It was an alleged attempted possible thingie to maybe on an off chance render a large number of Americans permanently unable to breathe on a day that misguided and uneducated masses celebrate the birth of the alleged son of some “divine” being.
7 Responses so far
January 5th, 2010
11:29 am
I hear you, ma’am. You aren’t the only one out there who feels this way. And the folks who agree with you are a far larger contingent of America than his Nibs and his cult will ever know….
... until they get whacked over the head with reality. Don’t despair. You have friends in low places. And we will be there for you.
Subsunk
January 5th, 2010
12:06 pm
An open ended gov’t. contract with Israel for airport security….Outstanding Idea !
Someone else wrote an article calling Israel’s airport security Pro-active, while America’s is Re-active.
We don’t do anything until AFTER something bad happens and then we can’t even get that right.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
January 5th, 2010
1:58 pm
You nailed it. I have gotten to the point that I avoid air travel if at all possible. After 20 years of having status with at least one airline I’m now accruing almost no miles.
January 6th, 2010
3:38 pm
It’s more than re-active. It’s object based. Our security is based on blocking things rather than people.
January 6th, 2010
11:34 pm
No “Contact Jen?” Bah.
Having perused your “Lists” I thought you’d find this amusing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvoT0ZicwZY
January 7th, 2010
12:02 pm
Jen,
Check you Inbox at the Cave.
Oh, and Happy New Year.
January 8th, 2010
11:04 am
I remember ages ago (1980 to be exact) having to go to Frankfurt (FRG) airport to pick up someone (probably my Mother, so that would be 1981) – Anyway, two small children and I make it to the waiting chairs outside of customs, just sitting and waiting when two politzi with uzis walk into the area. Well being the quazi smart wife of a US Army soldier, I look around, decide that the safest place is under the bench we are sitting on – and then I realize abso-f**kin-lutely no one else is even batting an eye lash. So instead of my gut American reaction – it’s a terrorist act – I realize that these people don’t do the reactive bs America does and after their first incident – put the damn armed police into the airport to shoot to kill anyone who intends harm to others.
Those in charge (cough, cough) of American security indeed should take a lesson from those countries who have been dealing with this successfully – as the EU is letting all kinds of people into all their countries without even a second thought or check – and use those tactics.
The current ‘recommendations’ and response to this terrorist attempt reminds me of John Bolton’s response to Obama’s Iran response (election, secret nuke site, all, whatever) – ‘Diplomacy is a technique, not a policy’
I’d like to see more policies and something that actually works – not more techniques that will get us all killed.
BTW, wonder how far into the gutter air travel to Detroit is falling?!? Bet we won’t see that in the msm!
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