Teenage Threat

I was slightly disturbed the other day to read that the Department of Homeland Security is being urged to put airline schedules ahead of safety by rushing their security checks.

To reduce flight delays at these airports, DHS exempts a number of passengers from US-VISIT security screening if necessary, including teens, elderly, families, foreign pilots and religious workers such as imams

While Dhimmi Watch chose to focus on the danger of the foreign pilots and religious workers, it seems to me that teenagers are also an emerging threat. Sound stupid? Well, a number of teenagers have been caught wearing explosive vests trying to sneak through check-points in Israel. It seems to me that if you know that a teenager is not going to be looked at as closely as an adult and you want to carry out a terrorist attack, then the thing to do is use the teenager. When it comes to these kinds of checks, the only clever strategy is to check everyone you can.

If you're going to start making exceptions then begin by excluding the non-Muslims. Is that profiling? Good. If America was at war with China, would we be protesting the fact that Chinese were being given more attention? Well, probably the moonbats would be up in arms about that, but if you're a rational human being it only seems logical to pay attention to the section of humanity currently posing a threat- not all terrorists are Muslims, but the War on Terror is focused on Islamic terrorism. That's a plain and simple FACT. When heads are being sawn off they aren't chanting, "Praise be to Buddha." And they aren't protesting about abuse to the Bible in Gitmo.