Thoughts on Airplane bombers.
Over the last few years, I mentioned how convenient it was that the "shoe bomber" didn't even bother to hide in the bathroom before trying to set off is bomb. Almost like he wanted to get caught.
After all, which hurts the West more? Killing a few hundred people? Or inconveniencing millions and millions of people every single year?
Thanks to that guy, we all have to take off our shoes before we go on an airplane.
Now we have the "underwear bomber". Who also didn't bother to lock himself in the bathroom before trying to explode. And now it looks like we'll all have to get naked (or be scanned by scanners that show us naked) before we go on an airplane again.
How long before we have another bomber who tries to use a rectally inserted bomb to blow up a plane? I bet that one won't bother to go to the bathroom first either, and will conveniently be stopped.
The security procedures after that one will really be fun.
After all, which hurts the West more? Killing a few hundred people? Or inconveniencing millions and millions of people every single year?
Thanks to that guy, we all have to take off our shoes before we go on an airplane.
Now we have the "underwear bomber". Who also didn't bother to lock himself in the bathroom before trying to explode. And now it looks like we'll all have to get naked (or be scanned by scanners that show us naked) before we go on an airplane again.
How long before we have another bomber who tries to use a rectally inserted bomb to blow up a plane? I bet that one won't bother to go to the bathroom first either, and will conveniently be stopped.
The security procedures after that one will really be fun.