I recently flew on AA over the holidays and have never seen a bunch of incompetent workers. There were no standards for checking the contents of our carry on luggage. My mother-in-law (84 yo) went through in a wheel chair and they never searched anything on the chair. Uneffn’ believable.
“subdued by passengers”
I bet in Islam there is a layer of hell called subdued by passengers
A Dutch man was the hero, not an American.
There are times that I wonder what things would have been like if a different plane was “saved” by the passengers. Congress would be more focused on building themselves another palace instead of destroying the economy.
Arm the passengers. (No I’m not kidding!) ... the terrorists are “armed” why not the people they are trying to kill?
Well, the Obama Cabinet is giving them a run-for-the-money!
Everyone on the plane could be an air marshall and it won’t mean a thing if an explosive, even a small one, goes off at thirty thousand feet.
Those people survived because the bomb failed just like Richard Reids. I firmly believe that the muslim extremists are not interested in takeovers anymore. They may be concentrating on just getting one or two people on board with secreted explosives and quietly blow themselves and everyone else to hell.
The muslim extremists will NEVER stop trying to perfect a way to explode a plane in flight and kill Americans. PC can have a new name.
Perpetual Corpses.
As we all know – thanks to being told so by successive administrations — Islam is the religion of peace*. Thanks to the actions of one brave passenger — who fully understood that he had nothing to lose — this incident remained a small one.
Thanks to PC and the chronic disease known as “Cranial Anal Inversion Syndrome” among most alleged American “leaders” all the way up to the White Mosque — er — House, this “small” incident — and all like it in the future — will disappear down the Orwellian memory hole.
\I suspect the primary cause of the failure to put this guy – and only God knows how many more — on a no-fly list is that the folks down the food chain and on the ground who are SUPPOSED to keep these MUSLIM idiots off commercial flights are severely conflicted. On one hand, they are tasked to keep flying safe. On the other, they’ve all had multiple memos and “sensitivity sessions” stressing that they MUST be especially alert to the feelings of Muslims. Any actions they take against them MUST be fully justified and documented. The vernacular expression dealing with that is “CYA.” And so they do — while the rest of us die or, thanks to the actions of a passenger, have a very close call on approach to Detroit.
Compounding the problem is that this particular miscreant was not only a Muslim but a black guy from Nigeria. And the American president is _________ (fill in the correct color) and, having been born to a Muslim father and raised in a Muslim country, sympathetic to the religion of _________. (fill in the appropriate term).
The response to this near-tragedy? Fatherland Security now keeps passengers in their seats for the last hour of the trip!! Great! I suspect sales of Depends will soon spike. Now these folks will die at 35,000 feet and the wreckage will be strewn over hundreds of square miles making it virtually impossible to determine if it WAS an act of mass murder by (select one) an angry Norwegian, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, a Muslim nutcase. A few more of these and the air travel industry will be COMPLETELY dead.
By their INACTION and persistence in their denial that we are at war with a determined and dedicated enemy, these alleged “leaders” have 100% guaranteed that the next one will NOT be “small.”
* BTW, “peace” has two definitions:
1. The absence of conflict or war.
2. The ABSENCE or SUPPRESSION OF RESISTANCE TO SOME FORCE, POLICY, IDEOLOGY or POLITICAL SYSTEM, etc. WITH WHICH ONE HAS AN ABIDING DISAGREEMENT WHICH ONE WOULD OTHERWISE ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT TO THE POINT OF TAKING UP ARMS.
Sad to say folks but this government is more interested in not ‘’offending ‘’ Muslims that it is in protecting us. We’re on our own here. If you have to travel it’s really a matter of protecting yourself anyway you can. Keep a pen in your pocket. Stab the jihadi in the eye. Hell of a thing isn’t? Billions spent on ‘’security’’, best military in the world and what does it come down to? Some Dutch guy in the right place at the right time with a set of stones as big as all outdoors. God Almighty, what have we come to?