A Profile of Security in America

If you were foohardy enough to believe Janet Napolitano's statement that "the system worked" to stop the would-be Christmas airliner bomber, I have sad news: she has changed her mind, and now says that  "the system failed" to apprehend and/or comprehend one Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a probable Finnish potato farmer, unemployed  Nigerian "student" who was known to have terroristic intententions and ties, and who was even ratted out to U.S. Embassy officials by his own father!   Action taken?  A single  report filed under  "I'm too busy for this crap." 
Meanwhile, Umar hops aboard a Detroit-bound jetliner, pantslegs stuffed with powdered explosives and a detonator,  and simultaneously your Amish grandmother gets strip-searched, my legally blind 85-year-old Irish stepfather has to remove his belt, white cane and slippers for inspection, and Sister Mary-Elizabeth's habit is patted down by a TSA inspector wearing a burqa.   Another "man-caused disaster" averted, in spite of the TSA and because of a few brave passengers.


 I feel oh, so safe, knowing that Ja-No has her eagle-eye on the basket, err, the bat, umm, that, you know, round... thingy.