Plane diverted by tefillin

mantori.suzuki
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:30:54 +0000

I’m sure if he was dangerous his father would have reported him to the government, and they would have stopped him at the airport and…

Oh, wait. That doesn’t work, either. Well, shoot, I don’t know then.

But seriously, I probably would have been weirded out, too, honestly. It just cracks me up how good we are at catching the wrong people. As a nation we have an abiding love of reacting to threats by inconveniencing every living person without regard for whatever methods might have actually been tried successfully in other countries. El Al jets are never blown up, and yet their passengers pass through security quickly with a minimum of intrusiveness. Maybe we could learn something from the Israelis’ methods?

Naaaaah! Instead, let’s reinvent the wheel and get it wrong for about twenty years before we figure it out on our own! America! #&@^ yeah!