I Hope I Don’t Void My Belief In Christian Charity For Saying It…
By Mitch Berg
…but I sincerely hope this piece of semi-human filth spends the next few weeks crapping out his own teeth:
A man suspected of planning to blow up a Delta Air Lines flight in Detroit could face charges as soon as Saturday according to an official familiar with the case.
The suspect is a Nigerian national who claims to have ties to al-Qaida.
It was unclear today why the man wanted to attack the flight arriving from Amsterdam.
Big lessons? I see two:
One: After all the “security theater” that the government subjects passengers to, the alleged terrorist still got some sort of suspicious device or powder onto the plane. Think about that next time the TSA is making you take your shoes off.
Two: It was regular Americans who dealt with the situation:
Syed Jafry of Holland, Ohio, who had flown from the United Arab Emirates, said after emerging from the airport that people ran out of their seats to tackle the man.
Jafry was sitting in the 16th row — three rows behind the passenger — when he heard “a pop and saw some smoke and fire.” Then, he said, “a young man behind me jumped on him.”
Jafry said there was a little bit of commotion for about 10 to 15 minutes. The incident occurred during the plane’s descent, he said.
He said the way passengers responded made him proud to be an American.
Me too, Mr. Jafry.
Now, to watch the “Investigation Theater” run its course.
December 26th, 2009 at 10:13 am
The ‘crats will cover their butts. “He was on a list of terrorist suspects but not on a list that would have made us deny him a visa for a religious meeting.”
Sounds to me like he was well on his way to an AQ “religious meeting.”
December 26th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Hmm, “regular Americans”. Syed Jafry (an Arab name) of Holland (that’s over there in Europe), Ohio (Japanese for “hello”).
This is why I love America and the Muslim terrorists hate us. We are the World. We aren’t just Northern Europe West. We are the entire World. And we are Americans.
December 26th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Regular American, hennggh? Amsterdam Video Director ID’d as Flight 253 Hero: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/26/national/main6024122.shtml
Why do American plane passengers hate America so much?
December 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Tim,
Well, excellent! The first stories I saw identified the first tackler as American. If he was Dutch, it’s all to the good. The Dutch, idiosyncratic as they can be, are among the good guys; they’re among the few nations in Western Europe that pay the same respect to their national anthem (“Het Wilhelmus) in anything like the same way we do; while they’ve taken their brickbats for socialism and foreign policy over the past forty years, they were among the Western Euro nations that stepped up during and after the Cold War.
Respect for the Netherlands? I speak some Dutch! Do you?
Who are we kidding; judging by your writing, you barely manage English.
So why do uninformed anonymous lefty trolls hate the facts and intelligence so much?
December 26th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
When I said “We are Americans”, that included Tim. Sadly.
December 26th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I have a suggestion for TSA…a new way to screen for potential terrorists.
Step up and eat a delicious, porky Ballpark frank. If you refuse to eat one, and your name isn’t Goldstein, you don’t fly.
You also don’t fly if you ask for catchup to put on your dog.
December 26th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Swiftee is obviously an al Qaeda plant. Everyone knows it’s “ketchup” with a K. I have heard of “catsup” but I don’t believe it’s natural.
December 26th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Actually, Al Qaeda trains its operatives to eat pork whenever necessary to fool the infidels. And not all Jews are named Goldstein, nor are they necessarily required to keep kosher, depending. Great idea, but it won’t fly. Terrorists will, whether you make them take off their shoes or not. Maybe we should try, oh, I don’t know, profiling?
December 26th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Trained to eat bacon. Or a BBQ pork sandwich. We are dealing with inhuman fiends, gentlemen.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:57 am
Yes, swiftee would be happy if no Muslim were ever allowed to fly. Or live in the U.S.A.
But don’t dare call swiftee a bigot.
December 27th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Think about that next time the TSA is making you take your shoes off.
Or confiscates your 4.4 oz bottle of aftershave, like happened to me on Friday.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Kermit; catsup, ketchup…whatever; either way, you’re way too familiar with the stuff for your own good.
It’s chilling isn’t it, Terry.
Stool; Oh no, you di-int! Haha!
December 27th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Ronald Reagan wanted public schools to declare ketchup a vegetable. If it was good enough for the Gipper, it’s good enough for me.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
I hope I may be forgiven for pointing out that this guy was carrying his explosives sewn into his underwear. The hero who stopped him from blowing himself and others to bits had burns to his hands.
Which suggests this terrorist burned his bacon, cooked his own goose, roasted his own nuts over an open fire, popped his corn, you can fill in your own appropriate descriptive phrase.
I’m thinking he is not feeling quite so blessed by Allah right now for his efforts. There is probably not much worse that we could do to him than he has done to himself, even if Obama still permitted waterboarding.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
There is probably not much worse that we could do to him than he has done to himself, even if Obama still permitted waterboarding.
I don’t know. Denying him treatment under ObamaCare and forcing him to sit in a room and listen to Reid and Pelosi talk about health care “reform” would qualify as worse than waterboarding.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Napolitano: “The system worked…”
Umm, if this is your definition of working, I don’t want to see your definition of failure, Dumbocrats. The only part of the system that worked is that the passengers know that the system is so worthless that they’re on their own to defend themselves.
Gee, maybe we should put Napolitano in charge of administering ObamaCare since she is so good at defining what working should be.
You know, when the Obama Administration the Democrats were claiming it would be the most competent administration ever. After our tax cheat Treasury Secretary, outright bribery with tax money by Pelosi and Reid, and now our Homeland Security dunce, I’ll observe that this likely is the most competent Democratic administration possible. Too bad for our poor country.
December 27th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
The inevitable TSA misdirected over-reaction is already afoot: passengers will now be forbidden from leaving their seats in the final hour of a flight, will not be allowed access to their carry-on baggage and may not have items on their laps (such as a laptop or tray table – don’t know if this includes books). I read it in both the Mpls and St. Paul papers, though it sounded like it came form the Onion.
So, who does the public talk to to tell the TSA to cram it? Where is the accountability? Overnight they impose new restrictions that will add unreasonable stress and discomfort to those with small bladders or small children, or just avail themselves of common amusements to pass the time.
Boy, makes you really look forward to the government taking over healthcare, doesn’t it?
December 27th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I make a living working with databases. Matching English names, accounting for misspellings, is easy. Matching phonetic variations of Arabic names is a little harder, but we can certainly do it.
But from what I’ve read, though, his name simply wasn’t on the no-fly list. The authorities had it, but hadn’t distributed the information properly. I’ll bet if you looked at how it gets updated, you’d find a largely ad hoc system. Distributing that information in an efficient, secure, reliable manner isn’t a hugely complicated problem, but add enough layers of bureaucracy and you can make it so.
In government, the left-hand not talking to the right-hand problem is endemic. It’s to the point where I don’t think government employees even realize it’s a problem. (They have the “not in my job description” blinkers on most of the time.) It doesn’t matter if you’ve got stategery or hopenchange, we have a serious structural and cultural problem in our security apparatus.
December 27th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
“Ronald Reagan wanted public schools to declare ketchup a vegetable. If it was good enough for the Gipper, it’s good enough for me.”
Yeah, well for those that believe what their kids are getting in the classroom can be identified as an education, I suggest they instruct their issue to sit down, shut up and eat the delicious ketchup salad…just keep it far away from my hotdog.
December 27th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
The inevitable TSA misdirected over-reaction is already afoot:
All airline passengers will be tranquilized and placed in passive restraints for the duration of their trip.
December 27th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Well Swiftee, if you actually eat hot dogs I don’t think you have to worry about condiments.
December 27th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
When I was in Wisconsin last August the best hot dogs I found were called ‘Noname”. They’d even be good with ketchup on them. Not available online, more’s the pity.
Mitch, could you open up a special “best wiener” thread? And dis-invite Mr. Angry Clown, please, for the obvious reasons.
December 27th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Aren’t most of the TSA screeners immigrants who can barely speak english? If only they had the kind of employee screening scrutiny that we go through every time we are probed, I mean screened before we go on planes.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Kermit, a Chicago dog ain’t bacon, but you can see it from there.
December 28th, 2009 at 10:03 am
A religious nut hijacked a plane with a gun. Ban guns.
A religious nut hijacked a plane with a box cutter. Ban box cutters
A religious nut hijacked a plane with a shoe. Ban shoes.
A religious nut hijacked a plane with a sports bottle. Ban sports bottles.
A religious nut hijacked a plane with a syringe. Ban syringes.
Seems as if we’re missing something important here, some common element at work, can’t quite put my finger on it . . . .
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December 28th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Terry, are these what you’re looking for?
http://www.nonamesteaks.com/products-smoked.php
December 28th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Ban religious nuts. Good job, nate. Now how’s Caribou Barbie going to take all those trips out of Alaska?
December 29th, 2009 at 12:06 am
I think that’s the right company, Troy, but they don’t sell their hot dogs through the online store.
Garlicky. Good snap. Heck of a dog.