Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Video from Newark

An anonymous commenter left this link in a post further down. Amateur camera phone video of the evacuation of Newark airport the other day.

The commenter is right. These people are being herded.

Now, considering that a dumbass as yet unknown uncaptured has just jumped the fence, how stupid is this? He could be waiting in any door and jump out hollering "Surprise!" just as he pulls the ripcord. Many dead Infidels. Very bad. Very bad. As the commenter said a "future shahid's ultimate wet dream". Or, at the very least, slip out with the crowd. Perhaps leaving a package secreted to go off later.

A lifetime ago I used to do some "unconventional" security work and even I know this is about as stupid as it gets.

Like I said, you're not surrendering a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security. You're surrendering ALL liberty for NO security.

God save us from the amateurs protecting us. . .

5 comments:

Toaster 802 said...

If you think this is bad, wait until the TSA ex-mall security frauds are fully unionized and ready to vote demo-rat. Both changes that will put a fork in any common sense left in the TSA.

Carlos Echevarria said...

I know this airport quite well. As per TSA and the new regulations, don't worry we can know check out 90 year old grandmothers panties and make sure diabetics can't go to the bathroom 1 hour before landing or businessmen who pay taxes can not be working on their laptops!

Plus, these progressive rules will now proscribe people, like the Flying Dutchman, from saving the planes a la the Richard Reid Paris to Miami situation.

Always On Watch said...

The guard who let the nutjob slip through has now been reassigned to non-screening duty.

Also, the morning news says that the guard may have left his station. Sheesh.

Anonymous said...

Can I get an amen for Hugh @ jihadwatch.org| January 5, 2010 6:21 AM
One tiny glimmer of hope: anything that puts the burden, or shares a part of the enormous burden, of security with Muslim states and peoples, is a good thing. Right now more than a dozen Muslim countries (and Cuba, for comical camouflage) will now "suffer the indignity etc." of having their passengers subjected to much more intensive -- so we are told -- searches. This, they and we and the whole world knows, has to do with one thing and one thing only: their countries are Muslim, and the same scrutiny that will make life more unpleassant for their Muslim passengers should be, and may be, extended in the future.

Extended how?

Extended first to all Muslim nations.

Extended second to all Muslims who can be identified, or suspected of being Muslims, from non-Muslim countries, such as France and Great Britain.

Extended third to cover domestic flights, for there is no real reason to make any distinction between the greater threat of Muslim terrorism from Muslims flying within a country, whatever their own country of origin, and flying trans-nationally.

The lesson, the warning, is there: we are going to do what we must, or think we must.

Such screening relies mainly, however, on machines and not men. And it is men, not machines, men (and, bien entendu, women), if they are well-trained, if they are at the level of those who perform security for El Al, if they are thoroughly steeped in all the means of deceptiion, and are, unlike so many in authority who are supposed to be in the business of protecting us and themselves (the U.S. Army at Fort Hood, the C.I.A. the other day in Afghanistan, the security services in the airports of Portland, Boston, etc. on 9/11/2001), deeply, permanently, implacably suspicous of Muslims and not ever to be likely to confuse a plausible smile, or protestations of loyalty, or anything else, with the real thing, given that anyone today who now continues to call himself a Muslim may be held to believe that the Qur'an in uncreated and immutable, the Word of God, and thus held to believe and hold fast to all of its Jihad verses, beginning but hardly ending with 9.29 and 9.5, and a hundred others, and to the Hadith that are most dangerous to Infidels, and to the Sira. "I didn't know about it" may have passed muster as an excuse a decade ago, but it won't do know. And "I am not an extremist" or, still worse, the attempt to deny the contents of Qur'an -- "the Qur'an doesn't say that" -- or Hadith, or the attempt to deny all the things that Muhammad did (Banu Qurayza, Asma bint Marwan, Abu Afak, Khaybar Oasis, little Aisha) or to somehow explain them away as being "taken out of context" -- every Musllm who continues to attempt, in any way, to deceive Infidels about such matters is to be regarded with the greatest suspicion, and permanently. There is no other way to deal intelligently with the threat from within and without.

So smile all you want, pretend all you want, to regard Muslims as "moderates" - including those whom you may employ, at some level, to gather intelligence or help out, but never rely on Muslims beyond a certain level, unless of course they are true apostates, whether declared or not, who have a sense that Islam itself is responsible for all the failures and wretchedness and misery of Muslim states and societies, and they are not about, any longer, to continue out of fear of filial piety, to pretend otherwise, or do a thing to help the Camp of Islam, or any part of it.
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Anonymous said...

can I get an amen for hugh continnued from above:

Meanwhile, the American and other governments have to figure out how to really make the Muslim states pay for Muslim terrorism, pay so high a price that they will truly make efforts to stop it. When the Saudis stop worry9ing only about the safety of the Al-Saud, when they fire evey last hate-preaaching imam, when they show us what is in their textbooks and then publicly destroy those textbooks, when they stop funding the Jihad by the building of mosques and madrasas all over the West, stop funding campaigns to spread Islam among the psychically and economically marginal, stop spending money to transform the easygoing syncretism in parts of sub-Saharan Afrcia (just look at what Saudi money has done to the mosques and Muslims in Niger, for example), when they stop spreading money to "radicalize" groups of Muslims throughout the Western world, such as the Pomaks of Greece and Bulgaria (is anyone in the C.I.A. monitoring what money is arriving in Togo? In Niger? Among those Pomaks? No? Why not? I've managed to learn things, from the comfort of my living room, without getting out of my chair, through various informants -- so why can't the goddam C.I.A.?).

Read Saudi Arabia the riot act. They have to stop sending money to build mosques and madrasas. Saudi Arabia has assets in this and other Western countries. We have seized the assets of enemy aliens before -- we did it in World War II. We should let the Saudis know that in the war of self-defense against the Jihad that we are now conducting, conducting a tous azimuths, they are regarded as the enemy, and the money they spend in the West regarded as a Money Weapon that harms us, and we have ways to get back at them, and to make them pay for the tens of billions, or rather hundreds of billions, of dollars that the Western world is now forced to spend on security, of all kinds, at airpots, and on planes, and at train stations, bus stations, sports stadiums, government buildings, government monuments, Christian and Jewish schools, on individuals such as Kurt Westergaard in Denmark and Mr. Vilks in Sweden and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and on many others, whose names need not be given here. Think only of the cost, in billions ofr man-hours, because now we must arrive at airports not one hour ahead of time, as once we did, or even with less of a wait, and not two hours for international flights, as we were required to do so after the 9/11/2001 attacks, but now, it appears, a full three hours. Add that all up.

Make the Muslims pay. Figure out ways to discomfit them, and above all, let the money come from them.

And make clear, by an example, what can be done. If the American government, and all Western governments, were now to cut off all commercial flights to and from Yemen, that would be an excellent thing. It would make Yemen, its government and people, surrounded by sea and then by a hostile and suspicious Saudi Arabia, aware of how dependent they are on the West. It would be a lesson for all the Arab and Muslim states. We mean business. We are fed up. The pain will be felt not only by us, by our air travellers, by our long-suffering taxpayers who must now pay for all the security all over our countries, where we are forced to monitor Muslims, foreign and domestic. No, the pain will be felt by you, for you are hopelessly dependent on the West for medical care, education, technnology, everything, and because you are Muslim states held back by the very thing that you hold most dear, because it in turn holds you in thrall, you will never ever catch up, though you think that you will, through your oil and gas revenues -- the only kind of revenues that come through no effort, no entrepreneurial flair, no hard work, no nothing -- be able to buy whatever you want.

No. No. No.
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AMEN!