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All terror, all the time. Our News corporations are having a field day with the newest episode of the continuing drama of BushCo V. the World. Q: What do the War on Terror and the War on Drug have in common? A: Neither achieved what they intended. The moral: Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences.

One of the tenets of my life’s experience is this: "You can’t idiot-proof something. The idiots will always out smart you." To begin confiscating water bottles and baby formula on all flights is to try to idiot-proof airport security. The fact that we feel the need to ban liquids as a result of the latest developments of the failed "War on Terror" shows how the idiots have again won.

How far will we go? An article in Slate asks just that, as well as pointing out the obvious. Read the Liquid World. Envision, if you will, a world where cat scans, human x-rays, and MRI devices are required to enter an airport. Sacrifice the known dangers of gamma rays to insure the illusion of safety in the friendly skies. Frequent fliers earn Chemotherapy points. The contents of your bowels are posted as public information, deep inquiries about your orifices occur in unadorned rooms. Strip searches include penetration as standard procedure.

Naturally, Al-Qaida, boogeyman du jour, is being blamed. They don’t even have to take credit these days, it’s given freely. As the NY Times reports:

“It has all of the earmarks of an Al Qaeda plot,” said Mary Jo White, the former United States attorney whose office successfully investigated and prosecuted the so-called Bojinka plot to bring down airliners over the Pacific in 1995.

What exactly is an earmark? Perhaps that statement has all the earmarks of  an administration in terror months before a mid-term election? The real issue, probably, is more like this quote from the same article.

“The great problem is that Al Qaeda has moved far beyond being a terrorist organization to being almost a state of mind,” said Simon Reeve, author of a 1999 book on Osama bin Laden and his associates. “That’s terribly significant because it gives the movement a scope and longevity it didn’t have before 9/11.”

I cannot believe that Al Qaida is the only American-hating Muslim group capable of thinking diabolically. Contrary to the Redneck Agenda, Middle-Easterners have the same amount of gray cells as anyone else. The one thing the world should have learned from the Iraqi debacle is that murder is an art form in hues of red and brown.

Folly, however is a science.

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