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In case you were worried that the Transportation Safety Administration had not cracked down on those wily terrorists in the week or so since the PantyBomber boarded his plane in Nigeria, you can now rest easy. They have identified and detained a very dangerous terrorist.
Rivers, 76, was deemed a danger to national security and booted from a Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica on Sunday by a jittery Continental Airlines gate agent who found the two names on her passport fishy.
Her passport reads: Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers. Rosenberg was her late husband's last name.
Did they suddenly put Botox on the banned materials list? Did they not like her recent red-carpet criticism of their wardrobe? Do they work for Donald Trump? Is she just not considered funny enough in Costa Rica? At any rate, the idea that someone who looks about as much like a terrorist as a fluffy bunny does, seems a bit ridiculous.
From Tallulah Smith at Sex, Lies and Hollywood:
What is wrong with our system? A Nigerian( whose own father reported him to the Embassy as a threat) has passport problems, has spent time in Yemen with terrorists, buys a one way ticket with cash, and has no luggage… but the government sees nothing wrong and says Abdulmutallab is allowed to board a flight and come to Detroit. But world famous Joan Rivers is a threat and can’t fly to America. And the administation says the “system worked”. Who believes this?
I beg to believe just about no one, even though Robert Gibbs goes out of his way on a daily basis to ensure the public that everything possible is being done to correct the "problems" that the "system" supposedly had. Although, an argument could be made that TSA is, of course, getting stronger than ever: the nominee to head the administration miseld Congress, failing to reveal that, in the past, he accessed confidential records in a Federal database holding personal information, possibly in violation of stringent privacy laws. If this is true, of course, he becomes a nearly perfect metaphor for the TSA itself: subjecting innocent individuals to invasive and often inappropriate invasions of their personal liberty.
Now, perhaps we can forgive the Joan Rivers incident, or chalk it up to over-compensating foreign authorities afraid to incur the wrath of the United States government lest they allow a comedienne to go back to New Jersey. But what about when the TSA detains a noted war blogger? Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing catches the story from Facebook:
"Got arrested at the Seattle airport for refusing to say how much money I make. (The uniformed ones say I was not “arrested”, but they definitely handcuffed me.) Their videos and audios should show that I was polite, but simply refused questions that had nothing to do with national security. Port authority police eventually came — they were professionals — and rescued me from the border bullies."
As Michelle Malkin explains, Michael Yon has been embedded in some of the most dangerous war zones in the world, specifically in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although that doesn't immediately make him free of suspicion, and the majority of the story has yet to come out, its hard to believe that refusing answers to a few additional questions warranted handcuffing.
At any rate, American should rest easy knowing that they're being protected from the threats of the world. And thanks to a brand new form of technology, their ability to dig deep for indications that you might be a terrorist is about to get a whole lot more powerful.
I wonder how long it will be until someone starts selling titanium thongs.
