The Gun Rabbi

In response to the attempted bombing of an inbound international flight, the Department of Homeland Stupidity is at it again. As usual, we respond to the last terrorist attempt by finding the small aspect of that event which is under our control, and we lock down that one small piece of the security puzzle.

We had the shoe bomber, so now we all take off our shoes. We had the baby-bottle bomber, so we aren't allowed to bring liquids onto the plane.

For the record, in Israel, El Al security -- universally recognized as the best there is -- doesn't make everyone take off their shoes and they even let you carry water onto the plane. Why? Because El Al security looks for suspicious people who might be terrorists. In the US, we look for suspicious objects; we mistakenly think that forbidding objects will prevent terrorist attacks.

So what will the Department of Homeland Stupidity do this time?

It's bad enough that the terrorists mock us by fighting from civilian areas like hospitals, mosques, churches, and schools; even worse, the media supports their false claims of "war crimes" committed by those fighting terrorism. Here's a great brief documentary showing the media bias in Israel's war against Hizbollah.

Writes Daniel Byman in The Wall Street Journal:

Americans are now learning what citizens of Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and other foreign countries have long known: that some of our own can and will go to great lengths to kill their fellow citizens.

The U.S. is facing rising terror threats from its own citizens. What made the country safer after 9/11 is changing, and not for the better.

The police and army cannot be everywhere. The only way to fight terrorism at home is via alert, responsible, aware, and armed civilians.

Are you ready?

The American Thinker has an excellent article entitled "Jews Who Won't Support Their Allies" which discusses Jewish "tolerance" for Muslim intolerance. The article is spot on target, and the comments others have made are very worthwhile reading.

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