The Lunatics are Running the Asylum or Security-Theater and You

From Canada:  “Frequent fliers know the drill:  take off your shoes, surrender your tweezers and pack your shampoo in those littl plastic baggies befor lining up for the naked body scanners.  But lift your niqab?  Apparently not.

QMI Agency (Quebec Media, Inc. Agency) can reveal that neither airlines nor security services are asking Muslim women to lift their veils and prove that the face beneath matches their photo ID.”

Air Canada says it’s CATSA’s (thier TSA) job and CATSA says “we just look for metal”; so much for ceramic, explosive or biologic [the sarin, a nerve agent, dropped in the Japanese subway years ago was in a light bulb].

And to further explain why veils may be an issue: Mustaf Jama, a Somali witha long criminal record escaped back to Somalia by wearing a full veil and boarding a flight at Heathrow.

AND, to tell you how really screwed up this is, consider that the Muslim Canadian Congress and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Canada BOTH say you should NOT be allowed to wear a veil in the secure area of an airport.

So what’s it got to do with the Large Aircraft Security Program?

Well:  1) these flight come to the US, not just intra-Canadian airspace.

2) the CAIR, Canada spokesman says they probably don’t do it because of political correctness concerns.  No kiddin’, ya think?  And give the political correct morass that is the US government, we would never fall in that trap would we?  It’s already happening, in my day job I’ve seen Captains try to throw disruptive Arabs off (actually no idea of their religion) and told they can’t.  Yet any drunk, loud, disorderly other ethnic or regilous type gets the heave-ho.

3) Yet, my children, my wife, my friends won’t be able to board my private property without a background check and a search if LASP goes into effect.  Unless they are wearing a veil I guess.   Somebody should tell that to Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV), if he wants to get through the line fast, he just has to wear a veil.

I want you to understand, this is a style of dress.  Yes, there’s a set of beliefs that require it, however it doesn’t list a religion on your passport, and there’s nothing that says you can’t throw a veil on and then use false papers to get on an airplane. 

That’s the issue.  That we have become too scared of offense to tell (not ask) somebody the picture has to match the face and I need to see the face to know that.  And we are willing to strip search private citizens on private property without warrant (how many times does that violate the Constitution) but wouldn’t dream of bothering an individual in a veil on public transportation because we might offend.

The lunatics are running the place, I’m telling you.