While American Thanksgiving weekend will be a frenzy of patting and groping and peeping, a bunch of Jihadists will be laughing their pants off at what a ridiculous bunch of nincompoops we are.
Fear has us travelling without water, make-up, cream or printer cartridges. We line up to strip off our shoes, jackets, belts and nipple rings. Get scanned for hidden metal &/or bomb powder. Are x-rayed down through our skivvies. Get groped and pawed. Our totes are rummaged by strangers. And, if we’re particularly shady looking, so are our cavities.
If you described that scene to someone 60 years ago, they might have thought you were being prepped for the gas chamber, and not an airplane.
Treating all this as perfectly normal is probably the first step towards giving in. So, if Americans are ready to revolt – then I say bring on the revolution.
And the first thing we’ll need are bumper stickers:
