August 17, 2006

Terrorists Win: Deodorant Banned from Airplanes

By Ann Coulter
FrontPageMagazine.com

Last week, British authorities arrested 24 members of a terrorist cell plotting to blow up about a dozen U.S.-bound planes simultaneously. As a result of those arrests, we learned:


  • Nothing being done by airport security since 9-11 would prevent a bomb from being brought onto an airplane;
  • and This terrorist plot – like all other terrorist plots – was stopped by ethnic profiling.

Last week marked the first official admission that everything government airport screeners have been doing until now is completely pointless – unless you're an airport security guard with a thing for women's undergarments, in which case it's been highly effective.

As we now know, all the ingredients necessary to blow up an airplane can be carried in small liquid containers. Airport security has not even been looking for small liquid containers. Judging from my personal experience, they seem to have been focusing on finding explosive devices inside women's brassieres.

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