Since 9/11, every time there is an incident overseas attributed to Muslims or Arabs, we go on orange alert ourselves …. There are individuals here who are off the wall, who think that every woman who wears a hijab or every man named Muhammad is out to blow things up.
Could I just use the loo?” I asked the nice officer. “No.” She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly.
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.
It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.
There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.
Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?
I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at.
I can't even go to the mall anymore. I have to bring 17 security guards... or it feels like it.
Far too many people have been swept into the post-9/11 system of fear that is the basis of all public policy these days.
Now we are using the body scanner to scan the pilots. They became the dangerous people of this country?
I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.
I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.
