8/21/2006
Dean Barnett who posts to Hugh Hewitt’s blog noted this very funny comment from a Boston Globe reader:
Then we also saw the abrupt imposition of the biggest indignity yet on the traveling public: The new rules prohibiting air travelers from taking any liquids of any sort on board, not even water. The rules were imposed in the most humiliating way possible, in order to make all of us feel helpless. In a scene reminiscent of something from Nazi Germany, law-abiding travelers who showed no signs of being potential terrorists had their toothpaste and bottled water seized without warning and without any compensation.
Of course, this rant is baloney. True, you can’t take toothpaste, gel, makeup, and other such things with you as a carry-on item, but if you pack all of these items into a bag and check that back in to the airline, then you’ll have no problems.
I’m thinking that Mr. Horrigan, the man who sent this comment into the Boston Globe, has not really had to do any travelling since the new rules went into place. Otherwise he would know this. At the same time, I wonder if Mr. Horrigan would be ranting about the “Nazi-like” security at the airlines if a plane with someone he loved had been blown up 30,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean?
I think it more likely that he and other liberal hotheads would be screaming for the President’s impeachment. Of course, even before Mr. Horrigan comments on the new airline security rules, he comments on the “timing” of the foiled terrorist plot. Perhaps I should start a new post and call it “Life Imitates The Viewpointjournal.com.” Here is what I said we would see before long from the loony left:
“Well, just as the grassroots/netroots movement asserts itself against the Iraq war, we have this so-called ‘terrorist plot’ which is uncovered! Hmmm…”
And here is what Mr. Horrigan wrote in his letter to the Boston Globe:
“The timing of the latest terrorism scare seems too good (or too bad) to be true. On Tuesday, Aug. 8, an anti war challenger, Ned Lamont, defeats a pro war incumbent, Joe Lieberman, in the Connecticut Democratic Primary. The next day, Vice President Cheney sneers that Lamont’s victory was a victory for the “Al Qaeda types.” Wednesday night, we are suddenly greeted by a lurid tale of the biggest terrorist plot in history.”
Fairly close, don’t you think? Of course, anyone with common sense could see this coming.
What I find frustrating is this; if something good happens, and we stop the next 9/11, then those who hate the President will call the timing “suspicious” and whine about the imposition of new rules to protect us all. If, however, something bad happens and people die, then the haters will gleefully talk of the President’s “failed policies” and call for his immediate impeachment.
Where is there any perspective in all of this?
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