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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas Kamikaze

So if you want to wreak widespread death and destruction, sign up with the US government rather than Al Qaeda’s shoe-bombing division. Groin-grenades are apparently even less lethal, judging from Abdulmutallab, not to mention their built-in deterrent for faithful fanatics: what fun can a guy have with all those virgins in Paradise if he’s burnt a certain area to a crisp?

Groin-grenades may be ineffective WMD’s, but they’re as good as shoe-bombs at growing government’s power. If a lone wacko with a bit of explosive in his sneaker excuses the TSA’s foot-fetish, imagine the hay Leviathan can make from one with a bomb in his crotch: "I think we have to head in that direction [of virtual strip-searches with millimeter-wave scanning]," the histrionic Pete King intoned. "Yes, there is some brief violation of privacy with a full body scan. But on the other hand, if we can save thousands of lives, to me, we have to make that decision".'

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