I caught a flight over the weekend & while standing line for TSA checkpoint & chugging my water as fast as I could with one hand, untying my shoes with the other, preparing to take my laptop out of its bag with the other, taking my watch off with the other, removing coins, my cell phone & everything else from my pockets with the other, etc., etc., etc. - a thought occurred to me:
Do you know there is just ONE reason we are all having to go thru this every time we want to fly... aboard a commercial aircraft? Know what that reason is? Islamist practitioners of jihad. That's it. That is the sole reason why.
In the same way that $3.50/gallon gas has become the new normal; so has the security protocols of flying. Do you know it wasn't all that long ago that you could go to the airport to pick up a loved one, walk all the way to their arrival gate & wait there for them? Remember this? They'd come up the rampway, see your smiling face standing there and it'd be a big, lovie, sloppy reunion right there at the gate. We've been robbed of those moments. Watch movies from the pre-911 era - people just walk right up, get on the plane. There's no "lose that little bottle of lotion, grandma. Its more than 3 oz."
To all the haters out there who claim, "Radical Christianity is as dangerous as radical Islam." Really? Where are these 'radical Christians' who blow up planes & buildings and have forced us all to change our lifestyles & get to the airport 2 1/2 hours early in order to make it through security before we fly b/c there may be some Christians looking to hijack & blow up a plane? Where are they? Cuz I've never seen nor heard of one. And don't gimme this "the crusades" crap. That was 900 years ago!
We now have to get up at 4am in order to catch a 10am flight for one reason and one reason only. Islam. Period. Don't like that brand of truth? Then hit me with a reasonable counter-argument, not name-calling, inbred hatred.
Do you know there is just ONE reason we are all having to go thru this every time we want to fly... aboard a commercial aircraft? Know what that reason is? Islamist practitioners of jihad. That's it. That is the sole reason why.
In the same way that $3.50/gallon gas has become the new normal; so has the security protocols of flying. Do you know it wasn't all that long ago that you could go to the airport to pick up a loved one, walk all the way to their arrival gate & wait there for them? Remember this? They'd come up the rampway, see your smiling face standing there and it'd be a big, lovie, sloppy reunion right there at the gate. We've been robbed of those moments. Watch movies from the pre-911 era - people just walk right up, get on the plane. There's no "lose that little bottle of lotion, grandma. Its more than 3 oz."
To all the haters out there who claim, "Radical Christianity is as dangerous as radical Islam." Really? Where are these 'radical Christians' who blow up planes & buildings and have forced us all to change our lifestyles & get to the airport 2 1/2 hours early in order to make it through security before we fly b/c there may be some Christians looking to hijack & blow up a plane? Where are they? Cuz I've never seen nor heard of one. And don't gimme this "the crusades" crap. That was 900 years ago!
We now have to get up at 4am in order to catch a 10am flight for one reason and one reason only. Islam. Period. Don't like that brand of truth? Then hit me with a reasonable counter-argument, not name-calling, inbred hatred.
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