Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security:
I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have. The passengers reacted correctly, the crew reacted correctly, within an hour to 90 minutes, all 128 flights in the air had been notified.
And those flights already had taken mitigation measures on the off-chance that there was somebody else also flying with some sort of destructive intent.
An hour to 90 minutes to notify other flights!
How many planes could have been destroyed in that length of time? What a bunch of buffoons the HS Dept is.
Would Napolitano have said the system worked if the bomb had actually exploded! There was a complete failure in the security system. Only heroic Jasper Schuringa, a Dutch film director, and luck prevented a disaster. Napolitano and the Obama people are using George Orwell’s 1984-speak. Oh yeah, they are both Socialist regimes.
It is kinda funny in a sad sort of way that with all the billions spent on airline security the paying customers are still required to save their own lives.
And it is real funny that Janet Napolitano is now taking the credit for the successful passenger response. I mean do you really think she would have taken credit if the plane had exploded?
Typical Obamacrat.
Here’s a potential detail that hasn’t hit the national news yet.
#14 Very insulting to pigs. And pigs dont eff up like this.
#18:
Yeah, 90 minutes? That’s the funny part.
#24, read that article I posted. I’m assuming it’s true because I know of these people (friends of friends), how did “Obama’s” TSA make a mistake?
What did the 90 minute warning say? Be alert for a passenger attempting to make disaster with underpants.
Napolitano hates responding to threats since it makes us fear those she loves.
But she loves to profile solders and right-to-lifers.
I want to see photos of the damage to the interior of the plane.
#27, you’re a moron. Freaking out over this is exactly the wrong response. But Mitch Albom says it better than I ever could:
Which leads us to the one thing we actually can do about terrorism that would have a measurable effect on it.
Expect it.
Figure that it’s coming the way you know someone, somewhere, is going to shoot up his workplace. Someone, somewhere, will start a riot in a stadium. Someone, somewhere, will drive drunk and kill innocent people.
These are horrible events. We try hard to prevent them. But no amount of security, gun laws or alcohol warnings can keep them from happening completely. We accept this as a tragic part of life, but we still go on living.
Maybe the same needs to be done with terrorists who think airplanes are the way to unnerve our society. If we refuse to be terrified by these raging idiots, they lose their effectiveness. If and when the next airplane is victimized, our stock market doesn’t go south with worry and our politicians don’t go overboard with retaliation tactics, the terror is, to a large degree, neutered.
After all, what do these bombers want? It’s not as if they’re seeking a cessation of war, the return of a specific land or a specific prisoner release. What they want is mayhem. Hysteria. They want us stirred up with fear and hatred, which enables them to recruit larger masses to do their evil bidding.
We shouldn’t play into that. We should thank our stars that this incident was thwarted. We should unblock the money and politics that keeps our security hamstrung. And we should accept that someday, even with all that, something’s going to happen.
The more prepared we are for that day, the less terror it will wreak. And terror, for the enemy, is what it’s all about.
“If we refuse to be terrified by these raging idiots, they lose their effectiveness. ” I posit we are less terrified by the idiots then we are angered by our governments’ responses. In this case, we will all pay a price for a security breakdown that allowed a known risk to fly on a one-way ticket and with no luggage.
As for Napolitano: She was an idiot when governor of Arizona and her IQ appears to have declined since then.
I thought it was pretty funny, Now that all the passengers have to stay in their seat an hour before landing, I guess no one will be jumping up to save TSA from another fuck up.
Animby, I posit that this is true for many when a Dem is in the White House. If Cheney was still relevant he’d react by cranking up the terror color and searching the shit out of Americans flying from Chicago to Dallas, the terrorists would celebrate success, and his boss would jump up in the approval polls.
Who really wins in that scenario?
Monday, Jasper Schuringa will be charged with a crime for his actions on the flight as per Homeland Security regulations.
Funny it is.
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Funny it is.
See the following:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/12/27/clown-alert-janet-napolitano-says-the-system-worked/
Malkin is the smelliest pig in a pen of swine. She’s a fu@king idiot, and categorically wrong most of the time. Put her in the same category as Beck, but a lot dumber.
Glad to see Obama has surrounded himself with idiots.
Since Janet has made herself directly in charge of aircraft safety, she is responsible to no one. That’s why government control of ANYTHING is a bad strategy.
Is she saying it is the system working if you don’t inform the president for more than two hours? Is Michael Moore going to make another movie about this, that’s 20 times longer, with the audience laughing all the way?
To: Olo Baggins of Bywater
The people are not terrified and we respond correctly (ie Jasper). It’s our leaders (all of them) that use circumstances to obtain thier own security and advantage in life. We live in a giant kabuki theater. Nothing is real, only the people. Radio hosts, cable channels, celebs and their problems with paps, are all fake and posed.
It was once asked, “Is the Jerry Springer Show real?” Answer, who cares the millions of viewers are.