you had to be there!
By ATWadmin On March 14th, 2007 at 10:43 amI flew down to London yesterday, for a very brief visit with my elder brother; returning the same evening. Now some may cavil at my decision to increase my ‘Carbon Footprint’ by the amount of CO2 from the twin-engine jet upon which I travelled, but since I personally do not believe any of the piles of garbage spewed from the ‘Green and Mean’ lobby about global warming, you may be unsurprised by the fact that I enjoyed the whole trip! Well, maybe not the whole trip, just most of it!
The bit which got me truly riled and angry was the wait, in a very large queue, at the Departure Security barriers at Terminal One, Heathrow Airport! There we stood, or rather there we all shuffled along, as the determinedly stolid security crew waved the waiting hordes forward into one of four lines aimed at the x-ray machinery set up to scan the luggage-mobiles-computers-jackets-coats of the prospective airline passengers! We also waited in line to be waved through the metal detectors to display that we collectively carried no weaponry, or grenades, or knives, or indeed any items which could feasibly be turned against the crew of the aircraft we all wished to board. Reluctantly, and I do mean RELUCTANTLY, I have to accept that these precautions are necessary, but there I would depart from the ‘herd’ mentality which has pervaded our mass transit establishments. I do not believe that it was necessary to have us all TAKE ALL OUR SHOES OFF, and also have them x-rayed as we passed through the scanner and detector. I might have a beard, but my skin colour is white, not brown or black; along with the overwhelming majority of my fellow passengers! My name is not Richard Reid!
With almost no exceptions, the bastards who have either succeeded or attempted to blow themselves sky-high are Muslim by religion, and brown or black in colour! Why are the majority of travellers humped together in this Kafka-esque nightmare of suspicion, just because our lily-livered Government refuses to do things without reference to the Equal Opportunities Commission, or the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR), or any organisation which has ever employed Trevor Phillips? The IRA killers, who supplied more than their fair share of the carnage of the ’70’s and 80’s, were making a bloody and detemined statement, but they drew the line at killing themselves along with their victims, except where the few ‘own goals’ redistributed their body parts across the landscape!
The cherry on the cake of stupidity and political correctness, however, was supplied by the inanely-grinning female figure, dressed all in black combat trousers, black jacket, black hijab or scarf or whatever the bloody thing is called wrapped around her silly head, who was the only person who would really raise my suspicions,