This Abdulmutallab guy was on a terrorist watch list. I don’t care how much Janet Napolitano whines about there being 550,000 names on the list. So what? How many people are in the various databases that are accessed when you pay for your airline ticket with a credit card? What is the purpose of the watch list, if the people on the list are not actually, you know, watched?
Government spokespeople and media pundits can spin this any way they want, but normal people out here in the country are not as stupid as we may look to some. Most of us have our own businesses or are working for someone who does.
Most of us have to be competent at our job or at managing our business or we will lose our job or lose our business. If we did something as dumb as letting Abdulmutallab on an airplane bound for the United States, we would run a real risk of losing our job or our business.
Forget the fact that his own father reported him to the U.S. embassy. Forget that he paid $3,000 cash for his ticket, and had no luggage. Forget that he didn’t have a passport. Forget that the UK had already denied him entry. Forget all of that.
Apparently there is no connection between the terrorist watchlist database and the computers of airlines that fly into the United States. This late in the game? It is Inexcusable. Inexcusable! Forget that he was allowed on the plane. What was he doing with a valid multiple entry U.S. visa?
I’m not blaming Obama. These institutions, the CIA, the State Department, Homeland Security, have a life of their own. They don’t much care who is President. Their bureaucratic incompetence transcends politics.
Now, having already nationalized the domestic auto industry, and the financial industry, the President and the Congress wish to take control of the health care industry, and the energy industry.
I think it might be better if the President and the Congress just focused on national defense, and let us people out here take care of that other stuff.