by Phyllis Chesler/ Pajamas Media
What Next? Body Cavity Searches at Airports?
Are we all going to be subjected to underwear checks before boarding our flights? If so, Al-Qaeda will soon secrete explosives in body cavities. Will we all be searched there as well? Will the time it takes to travel coast to coast or continent to continent soon approximate medieval travel times?
Is there another, easier way to deal with global terrorism in airports, on trains, and on ships? Might that way involve “profiling?” If so, is it still more important in terms of western values and law that we continue to seriously inconvenience or endanger the majority in order not to collectively punish the presumably innocent-until-proven-guilty minority? Read the complete original version of this item…
Flying High
What nobody in authority thinks us grown-up enough to be told is this: We had better get used to being the civilians who are under a relentless and planned assault from the pledged supporters of a wicked theocratic ideology. These people will kill themselves to attack hotels, weddings, buses, subways, cinemas, and trains.
They consider Jews, Christians, Hindus, women, homosexuals, and dissident Muslims (to give only the main instances) to be divinely mandated slaughter victims. Our civil aviation is only the most psychologically frightening symbol of a plethora of potential targets. The future murderers will generally not be from refugee camps or slums (though they are being indoctrinated every day in our prisons); they will frequently be from educated backgrounds, and they will often not be from overseas at all. They are already in our suburbs and even in our military. We can expect to take casualties. The battle will go on for the rest of our lives. (Its already going on for 1400, and if we don’t prevail, they will… its either us or them/ed) Those who plan our destruction know what they want, and they are prepared to kill and die for it. Those who don’t get the point prefer to whine about “endless war,” accidentally speaking the truth about something of which the attempted Christmas bombing over Michigan was only a foretaste. While we fumble with bureaucracy and euphemism, they are flying high… Read the whole thing>>
Mark Steyn: too much man for Media Matters girly-boys?
When we last left the “Zacharies” — the 3-man (!) team assigned by Media Matters to monitor Rush Limbaugh and his co-hosts — they were so overcome with the vapors that they abandoned their postduring Hour 2 of Mark Steyn’s 3-hour guest hosting stint.
Steyn is back at the Golden EIB Microphone this week, sitting in for Limbaugh yesterday and today.
And apparently, the George Soros Steno Pool can’t scrounge up a single “Zachary” to listen in. For the first time I can remember, Media Matters didn’t post a recap of the Limbaugh show yesterday. Hmmm.
On Christmas Eve, Media Matters stuck up a little squip informing readers that “posting would be light”during the No Man’s Land between Christmas and New Years. That’s probably their lame official excuse for avoiding Steyn’s guest hosting gig.
I suspect the real reason is sheer pants-wetting terror.
So: will the “Zacharies” muster up the courage to tune in today? Or were their ear drums (and other precious tiny bits) fatally wounded in their previous encounter with Steyn’s wit, brains and groovy accent?
Stay tuned.
(And enjoy the following video, shot by a friend after we’d attended Steyn’s testimony at the Ontario Legislature in February 2009. You can hear my Hillary Clintonesque guffaw off camera about halfway through. And yes: we all went for a drink. As RightGirl said before she was cut off: “It’s always five o’clock somewhere.” Must have a bit of fun between lawsuits.)
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Mark Steyn speaks the TRUTH!