Let's Profile!

Dogs & Jeans does not normally re-post material from other sources, especially FoxNews. However, today's opinion piece by KT McFarland our misguided North American airport security is so on the mark, it deserves at least some point form honor. Here are some of the arguments:

• Al Qaeda’s pattern has been to constantly adapt their offense, and force us into spending valuable resources on defense. While we’re busy focusing on preventing the last attack, they’ve moved on to the next one. 
• They’re putting bombs in UPS packages that make their way from cargo planes to passenger planes. They're plotting to place bombs inside bodies – the human bodies of suicide bombers, or of corpses or even animals – which will then be detonated remotely once in plane is in flight. Full body scanners are useless against those threats!
• We’re wasting money, time and the people’s patience in an effort to be politically correct. In the end, it’s not keeping us any safer; if anything it’s making us less safe since it’s diverting resources that could otherwise be used on better intelligence gathering, or developing screening devices for cargo on commercial and civilian aircraft, or checking containers before they enter U.S. ports.

Read the whole article here.

Does the old man in the picture look like he is going to blow up the plane? Is he going to use his suspenders to strangle a stewardess. Considering he has to sit down to have his foot scanned, what's the likelihood he can ignite his shoe at get it to the cockpit? Then leave him the fuck alone so he can visit his grand kids in Denver.

El Al is the safest airline in the world, are also the airline under the greatest risk of attack. The Israeli's don't waste time making everyone throw out their water or taking old ladies' nail files away. They look for people who are suspicious and prevent them from getting anywhere near a plane or baggage area.

If we had done that, dirty, shifty-looking shoe bomber Richard Reid never would have been on-board. Or that idiot underwear bomber either.

How about we profile the guys who look like they are up to no good and stop rummaging through my 6 year old daughter's crayon container at the Calgary Airport? I mean seriously!