Wingnuts and Detroit

[discocrisco01]

I saw this on Topix this morning

"Since 9/11, traveling by plane is a nightmare. It is amazing how Americans have allowed themselves to be humiliated, strip searched, wanded, puffed, etc. so the politically correct Homeland Security can show they’re not racist by profiling the very people who should be profiled…Muslims! What has happened to common sense? Have we become so docile we have lost all of our spirit? Have we lost our sanity? We have all witnessed the TSA goons at airports searching and wanding American grandmothers in wheel chairs. It’s ridiculous! We’ve all had fingernail clippers forcefully taken from us! What, are we going to give the pilot a manicure? We’re allowed to carry on miniature amounts of shampoo and other toiletries yet a Nigerian Muslim on a FBI no-fly list can board a plane with liquid strapped to his leg! Americans are not the ones who need to be screened! We need to stringently screen Muslims! The level of political correctness is beyond ridiculous! I prefer non-American Muslims were not allowed to enter the United States under any condition. The fact that a Nigerian with ties to Al Qaeda can get a visa to enter the US shows our government is not willing to protect us! The Israelis do it right. At their airport, they don’t worry about Americans or white people who don’t act suspicious. They DO vigorously screen and check EVERY Muslim before they are allowed to board the plane. Why? Because while not every Muslim is a terrorist, every terrorist is a Muslim! The Israelis created a system of behavior recognition. It works in keeping bad guys off of planes. Why don’t we use it? Because it overtly puts Muslims under the highest levels of suspicion"

That is the wingnut solution to the problem. However, this guy lacks critical thinking, Critical thinking is that our actions in the Middle East made the Islamic Fundies nuts and therefore, they resent us.

If we have to learn that the best solution is to withdraw, and than the Islmaoc Fundies will no longer attach us because our actions has to satisty their resentment. The best solution for America is mind our own business and not to take crazy-ass war-mongering expeditions that kill people.

[kestrel91316]

1. How does this person propose to identify Muslims so we can bar them from the country?

DNA testing? Nope, that won't work.
Ask them outright? Anybody wishing to do harm will just lie.
Make them wear a yellow crescent on their clothing? They can ditch the topcoat.

I KNOW. They'll give them a tattoo. On the forearm. Just numbers.

[customerserviceguy]

5. What we need to do is identify people who are NOT a threat

and concentrate resources on everybody else.

We need a "trusted traveler" program paid for by the people who are the most inconvenienced by being treated like terrorists, when they're not terrorists. I'd gladly pay $100 for a card that would be quickly put into a machine which would give me a retina scan, and send me on my way in five or ten seconds, with no further hassle. I'd gladly wear that card in a holder on my chest so that I can put a book in my lap, or take a pee in the last hour of a flight.

[teenagebambam]

2. Has this moron been through Israel?

I was "vigorously" screened and I'm about as all-American looking as they come.

[lefthandedlefty]

3. I know I will be deep fried for saying this,but

People can avoid airport troubles very easy,just stay home or hop in your car and drive there or if you can`t drive or are just to lazy take a bus or better yet as I said before just stay home!

[annabanana]

4. You might be surprised to discover how many people

travel becasuse they HAVE to.

[customerserviceguy]

6. That works fine for short flights

but have you ever driven cross-country? It takes almost a week to do it, and you're on the road for very long stretches. You'd need a two-week vacation just to spend a bit more than a weekend with family or friends on the other end of the country.

[StarfarerBill]

7. I beg to differ: we've been targeting Muslims and people of color quite well...

...in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and now Yemen.

If the fortress-neighborhoods of these racists were put under that kind of onslaught, they'd have an idea of what true suffering is.