The Trouser Bomber Effect: Watching Government Cure Incompetence with Idiocy
OPS_admin | Dec 30, 2009 | Comments 0
We have all been drowning in ink and losing our collective eyesight with various media attempts over the holidays to explain how a young Nigerian whose own father had warned the US Embassy in Lagos about him just last month, was allowed to climb on a an airliner at Schiphol in the Netherlands, bound for the United States.
Would requiring passengers to stand on their heads belted “securely” in their seats for the last hour before arrival to make sure no blankets, books, computers, whatever, obscured a clear vision of their laps after a full body search manually and with X-ray equipment before boarding help discover the next Abdulmutullab in time? It isn't the terrorists who have created the morass of asinine travel restrictions. They are thoughtlessly piled on by CYA-schooled public servants willing to do anything but really seriously think about what they are doing. And, like Janet Napolitano, they stand ever ready to take credit for an accident as a direct result of their planning.
There is something about terrorism that seems to bring out the absolute worst in bureaucracy in attempting to match wits with terrorists as untoward events take place.
Full Story Thomas Lipscomb: The Trouser Bomber Effect: Watching Government Cure Incompetence with Idiocy.
Filed Under: Fascism, Police State, Authoritarianism
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