Coool Hand Luke
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Now boarding: Air-Infidel Airlines
As I was eating my breakfast this morning < usually an uneventful engagement with a bowl of corn flakes, I pulled my face up out of the bowl long enough to glance at the television. Alongside the 189 channels of "nothing good on," the commercials tend to be over-done, or just plain insipid. However, this one got my attention.
The backbone of capitalism, an intuitive entrepreneur had boldly taken up the challenge so badly needed in today's politically correct and non-offensive society, sensationally illustrated by the inability of the American political class to come to grips with the necessity of racial profiling.
A big-voiced and obviously Caucasian man of American roots breaks into his pitch as planes roar by and fly overhead:
"This is Air-Infidel Airlines; the airline for the rest of us."
As corn flakes sputtered out of my mouth while nearly falling out of my chair, he commandingly went on:
"At Air-Infidel, we know who to look for, even if your Government is afraid to."
The decor of the planes was a pinkish-tan color. Cartoon-like flying pigs were painted on the wing tips of the airplanes. The look was laughably eye-catching, and thunderously unapologetic in its message:
"Here at Air-Infidel Airlines, we profile Muslims and men of Middle Eastern descent to the point of not allowing any of them on the planes. How about that? Now Granny and just about everyone else that is NOT Muslim can rest a
bit easier knowing that here at Air-Infidel Airlines, 99.9% of the terrorist never even get to purchase a ticket, much less board the plane."
As I listened to the commercial come to a close, I wondered if all those blond-haired, blue-eyed, one-legged, vegetarian, oboe-playing, Lutheran Norwegians < who everybody knows were definitely candidates for the terrorist watch list, will feel now that they won't be so unceremoniously singled out as they were before.
Sure, I'm having a bit of fun here, and at the expense of Muslims, that is true. That said though, is the concept so ridiculous? When the facts shout themselves silly pointing out that nearly every terrorist plot is hatched, designed, and perpetrated by Muslims and Arabs, maybe we do need an airline for the rest of us.
But barring that, we have all heard of El Al Israel Airlines. It is as close to perfectly safe as one gets while flying. El Al's safety record is impeccable. It adheres to the most restrictive rules and it screens every passenger. However, "Air-Infidel Airline's" concept was even better; just ban Muslims, period.
Marie Jon'
August 26, 2006
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/060826
As I was eating my breakfast this morning < usually an uneventful engagement with a bowl of corn flakes, I pulled my face up out of the bowl long enough to glance at the television. Alongside the 189 channels of "nothing good on," the commercials tend to be over-done, or just plain insipid. However, this one got my attention.
The backbone of capitalism, an intuitive entrepreneur had boldly taken up the challenge so badly needed in today's politically correct and non-offensive society, sensationally illustrated by the inability of the American political class to come to grips with the necessity of racial profiling.
A big-voiced and obviously Caucasian man of American roots breaks into his pitch as planes roar by and fly overhead:
"This is Air-Infidel Airlines; the airline for the rest of us."
As corn flakes sputtered out of my mouth while nearly falling out of my chair, he commandingly went on:
"At Air-Infidel, we know who to look for, even if your Government is afraid to."
The decor of the planes was a pinkish-tan color. Cartoon-like flying pigs were painted on the wing tips of the airplanes. The look was laughably eye-catching, and thunderously unapologetic in its message:
"Here at Air-Infidel Airlines, we profile Muslims and men of Middle Eastern descent to the point of not allowing any of them on the planes. How about that? Now Granny and just about everyone else that is NOT Muslim can rest a
bit easier knowing that here at Air-Infidel Airlines, 99.9% of the terrorist never even get to purchase a ticket, much less board the plane."
As I listened to the commercial come to a close, I wondered if all those blond-haired, blue-eyed, one-legged, vegetarian, oboe-playing, Lutheran Norwegians < who everybody knows were definitely candidates for the terrorist watch list, will feel now that they won't be so unceremoniously singled out as they were before.
Sure, I'm having a bit of fun here, and at the expense of Muslims, that is true. That said though, is the concept so ridiculous? When the facts shout themselves silly pointing out that nearly every terrorist plot is hatched, designed, and perpetrated by Muslims and Arabs, maybe we do need an airline for the rest of us.
But barring that, we have all heard of El Al Israel Airlines. It is as close to perfectly safe as one gets while flying. El Al's safety record is impeccable. It adheres to the most restrictive rules and it screens every passenger. However, "Air-Infidel Airline's" concept was even better; just ban Muslims, period.
Marie Jon'
August 26, 2006
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/060826
