British antiterrorism chief Peter Clarke said at a news conference that
the plot was foiled because "a large number of people" had been under
surveillance, with police monitoring "spending, travel and
communications."
I wonder, was this monitoring conducted with
due regard for what in America would be these terrorist's 4th Amendment
Rights, as interpreted by the ACLU, the Democratic Party, the New York
Times, and other organizations who want Americans to be murdered
because it would make George Bush look bad?
Oh, maybe that wasn't a fair spin.
Maybe the Democratic Party doesn't believe in using this sort of incident for purely partisan political ends.
...
I'm waiting for a suicide bombing at an airport. Imagine it: Hundreds
of harried travellers standing in line behind a Middle-Eastern
military-age male with a freshly shaved beard, smelling like flower
water, mumbling prayers to himself (don't you DARE profile him, screams
the ACLU) when, instead of emptying his pockets at the security counter
into the nifty plastic tray, he shouts "Allahu Akbar", and blows
himself to smithereens. How many would be killed by the ball-bearings
he's carrying in his coat pockets and the 5 or 6 kilos of plastique
he's wearing under his jacket?
What will the politicians do then? Require nudity when entering an airport?