While the average traveler is inconvenienced in every respect, some breeze right through:
A veteran airline worker at Canada’s busiest airport said few veiled Muslim women are forced to reveal their faces before boarding flights.
The long-time frontline worker at Toronto's Pearson International Airport said there is no clear-cut policy given to airline workers on how to deal with this and other sensitive issues.
“It may be in the archives, but it is not presented to the workers,” said the employee, who asked not to be identified.
QMI Agency first reported on Sunday that both airlines and security operations at Canada’s major airports were failing to ensure that all passengers showed their faces immediately prior to boarding.
Air Canada has disputed that aspect of the story, but employees working with various airlines in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa said that checks often occur at the luggage check counter, if at all, and that women who refuse to show their faces are simply allowed to board.
The veteran Pearson worker said there are many factors that have led to what he deems a security risk: The lack of a clear policy from airline management, worries about political correctness, and often aggressive behaviour from men traveling with veiled women.
The absurd situation of modern air travel is before us. Hampered by the unwillingness to assert appropriate muscle pre-emptively or face-to-face, the very personnel (for whatever reason) to which we entrust our safety just won't do things correctly, thereby putting passengers at risk. The average air traveler is not going to take down an airplane because he or she is not an ideologically-driven maniac. A three ounce bottle of shampoo is not the enemy. Yet these very people and things are under the hot glare of scrutiny by the same (as was mentioned in the above article) hourly wage earning rent-a-cops who won't do their jobs properly because they are scared. I'm sure the average air traveler is scared of being blown up.
The air travel industry can overhaul its system to maximise the safety of its clients by minimising the inconvenience it puts the clients through. Compile lists (daily) of people who should never even be near an airport let alone board an airplane. We compile lists of sex offenders; we can compile lists of people who think blowing up airplanes is a ticket to eternal paradise (by the way- it isn't.) Hire former army personnel who are trained to use force, are familiar with other cultures and/or languages and are familiar with current technology. Do as the Israelis do and PROFILE. Going through passengers as they line up at the check-in counter should weed out some rather squirrelly people. Invest in technology and personnel to thoroughly examine cargo and luggage. A terrorist might not have a bomb on him but may have the components in his luggage. Above all, make sure that airport personnel are not intimidated by would-be passengers. As the above article states, airport rent-a-cops are terrified of a snarly passenger. This snarly passenger could be in a bad mood because he hasn't slept or he could be in a bad mood because he comes from a culture where a woman is told what for with the back of his hand. No stewardess alive would tolerate that, nor should we.
What this guy said:
The tragic truth is that it suits Arab states very well to have the Palestinians endure permanent refugee status; whenever Israel puts forward workable solutions they are stymied by those whose interests put the destruction of Israel before the genuine well-being of the Palestinians.
Uh-oh. Someone is going to get the lightning:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), a Catholic, publicly stated earlier this year that she had a duty to pursue policies “in keeping with the values” of Jesus Christ, the “Word made Flesh.” But at a press briefing last week, when reminded of this statement, Pelosi declined to say when Jesus got the right to life.
“Whenever it was,” said Pelosi, “we bow our heads when we talk about it in church, and that’s where I’d like to talk about that.”
Later, when asked in writing through her press secretary whether the speaker believed Jesus had a right to life from the moment of conception, the press secretary responded: “The speaker answered the question. Thanks.”
God is not mocked, Nancy "Debutante" Pelosi.
North Korea rattles its saber once more:
North Korea moved long-range anti-aircraft missiles close to the border with South Korea as tensions rose over the sinking of one of Seoul's warships, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Chosun Ilbo quoted a military source as saying the North moved some SA-5 missiles from the southwestern province of Hwanghae to areas near the border, where they pose a potential threat to South Korean jets.
The missiles were repositioned around the time when the corvette sank in March, it said. A Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman declined to comment on what he called military intelligence matters.
The aim seems to be to prevent South Korean planes from launching precision strikes on strategic targets in the North in any emergency, the source told the paper.
Just firebomb Pyongyang, already.
If a mosque is allowed to be built near Ground Zero, it will be a mark of Islamic triumphalism. The nineteen hijackers will be laughing from hell. It has nothing whatsoever to do with tolerance. It is all about putting someone under one's thumb. How obscene.
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