{"id":3292,"date":"2009-12-27T06:20:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T06:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2009-12-27T06:20:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T06:20:03","slug":"a-short-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"A Short Rant&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3478\/3264464023_1420ee3870.jpg\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In the wake\u00a0of the latest failed terrorist incident, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sphere.com\/nation\/article\/airlines-say-transportation-security-administration-has-new-rules-for-passengers-in-seats\/19294497?icid=main|hp-desktop|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphere.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Fairlines-say-transportation-security-administration-has-new-rules-for-passengers-in-seats%2F19294497\">TSA announced a new round of security procedures <\/a>designed to greatly inconvenience millions of air passengers without doing anything to increase their security&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea. Let&#8217;s start using basic counterintelligence principles to screen prospective travelers to the United States and bar those young, unmarried, Muslim men\u00a0having affiliations with radical mosques, madrassas,\u00a0imams,\u00a0extremist Islamist political groups or a history of\u00a0\u00a0mental illness\u00a0and erratic behavior from receiving visas to enter the United States. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/wealthy-quiet-unassuming-the-christmas-day-bomb-suspect-1851090.html\">This\u00a0clown <\/a>should never have been able to get a visa. His own father, a senior government official of a foreign nation,\u00a0was trying to red-flag him as a potential <strong>al Qaida<\/strong> terrorist \u00a0for us(!).<\/p>\n<p>Would such a policy\u00a0catch every prospective terrorist? No. Nothing will.<\/p>\n<p>But it should at least keep out the no-brainer cases who currently are admitted to the U.S.\u00a0under our politically correct <strong>TSA-DHS-State<\/strong> immigration regime. There&#8217;s really no upside to allow <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vosizneias.com\/38426\/2009\/09\/15\/manhattan-ny-al-qaeda-supporter-sentenced-to-life-in-prison\/\">radical activists<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamestown.org\/single\/?no_cache=1&amp;tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4377\">recruiters for <strong>Hizb ut-Tahrir<\/strong><\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5579252\"><strong>Hezbollah<\/strong> fundraisers<\/a>,\u00a0and other\u00a0enemies of civilized existence into our country. Or better yet, any Western country. Sure, <strong>CAIR<\/strong> will complain but as that organization is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Council_on_American-Islamic_Relations\">an unindicted co-conspirator <\/a>in a terrorism case, in terms of civil rights, they are not exactly the <strong>NAACP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, maybe the airlines will start distributing catheters to pasengers whose landings are delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the wake\u00a0of the latest failed terrorist incident, the TSA announced a new round of security procedures designed to greatly inconvenience millions of air passengers without doing anything to increase their security&#8230;&#8221; Here&#8217;s an idea. Let&#8217;s start using basic counterintelligence principles to screen prospective travelers to the United States and bar those young, unmarried, Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,205,361,425,207,210,270,372,131,271,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4gw","category-al-qaida","category-america","category-government","category-illegal-combatants","category-islamist","category-national-security","category-non-state-actors","category-security","category-state-department","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}