If you are a fan of SF novelist Robert Anson Heinlein and have read his book The Puppet Masters, then you might have felt an odd resonance (as I did) when I read the following news item this morning:
“Mohammed,” shouted the police. “Take your clothes off! Come out with your hands on your head and you will be all right!” — Time Online
In the novel, which is set in the 21st century, alien parasites have invaded Earth and are attaching themselves to human hosts, effectively turning them into zombies. While the parasites preferred to ride on the hosts’ shoulders (giving them a humped appearance), they could attach elsewhere. The only real way to be sure that a person was parasite free was to view them naked. It was for this reason that the U.S. government enacted ‘Operaton Bare Back’ in the novel, requiring the country’s citizens to walk around in the buff.
We have another parasite on the loose in the world today, and it is called Fanatical Islam. While it attaches itself to minds rather than bodies, some of the infected minds have a distressing habit of attaching explosives to their bodies. Reading the news this morning left me wondering if we are close to the point where a real-world ‘Operation Bare Back’ might be effective at stopping suicide bombers?
Of course, it probably wouldn’t be feasible. I’m sure that someone fanatical enough to blow themselves up along with innocents like children probably wouldn’t have much compunction about having some of their innards removed thru their anus (to avoid scarring) and getting a duffel bag’s worth of plastique shoved up there instead. Not sure how you’d detonate that, but I trust them to figure that sort of thing out. Operation Bare Back wouldn’t help here.
It’s also not feasible from the aspect of people still needing to carry objects with them on their journeys. I’m sure you can hide enough C4 and a detonator in a briefcase and put the trigger in the handle. Operation Bare Back wouldn’t help here, either.
In fact, the only area where I see a real world Operation Bare Back having a chance of working is that Osama and his nutbar Islamist friends prefer their women covered from head to toe in clothing. Having naked females everywhere would probably cause them to flee the country.
Any thoughts on this?
(Note: this post was made by Sean, one of Kate’s erstwhile guest authors. Please don’t blame the weirdness of it on her.)
Sarge, those 9/11 terrorists in the strip joints just want to know what 12 virgins look like so they’ll recognize them when they get to Paradise.
Italy Bans the Burqa
Shockwaves from the London bombings are still spreading through Europe, as Italy bans Islamic burqas. (Hat tip: mardukhai.)
ITALY has banned Islamic burqas under tough terrorism laws that provide two-year jail terms and E2000 ($3200) fines for anyone caught covering their face in a public place.
The counter-terrorism package, passed by Italy�s parliament yesterday, doubles the existing penalty for wearing a burqa or chador � traditional robes worn by Muslim women to cover their faces � or full-faced helmets or balaclavas in public.
>>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Now this is a constructive secuity measure!
A safety measure too. No one wants to be confused with the KKK and summarily shot eh?
Covered faces are useful to the KKK, Corner store and bank robbers, jewellery store and B & E artists.
No need to be masked in a free society. 73s TG
Can you see that happening here? What about the Muslim woman in Florida who won the right to cover her face for her driver’s licence picture. Could be anybody behind the wheel. It’s quite extraordinary to see how Europe has suddenly cottoned on to the very real threat of home grown terrorism, and is willing to toss political correctness out the window rather than jeopardise public safety. Go figure. Won’t happen here, though. Not with an election looming.
Jeez all that’s missing from this comments feature – turned “chat room” are the alien avatars.
The long-winded lessons on every point made is really …. well …. long-winded.
Jeez all that’s missing from this comments feature – turned “chat room” are the alien avatars.
The long-winded lessons on every point made is really …. well …. long-winded.
I would not object to the banning of facial concealment garments, even those of a religious nature.
The immigration bureaucracy shld begin an international advisory campaign that anyone who doesn’t like the laws, rules of conduct, etc. of Canada should either prepare to adapt to them upon legal arrival or else stay out. Otherwise, they’d be setting themselves up for deportation proceedings. It goes both ways. If I went to live in one of their countries, I would certainly have to obey their laws or end up in their prisons, beaten, etc. Like W. Sampson, who, btw, is clearly innocent anyway. (After all, if the gov’t, the MSM and left in general presume Maher Arar innocent and automatically believe his claims of torture, then why not accord Mr. Sampson the same respect?)
I agree anyone could don a burqha, including men, including murder bombers, and go out, unharassed by police and citizens, protected by leftist PC fascism, and committ whatever crime or atrocity they see fit. We cannot have that. Just wait and see a burqha-wearing person go out and blow herself/himself up at Wal-Mart on Dec. 24th. I can see it now, too: male perverts donning burqhas and entering the ladies’ loos or locker rooms just to see something that excites them or even do something worse. It’s the perfect cover, ain’t it? Just wait ’till it happens. It will eventually. Then watch the MSM coverage, if any.
Duke, it’s ironic that you say the thread is long-winded, yet you post two of the same posts.
You do have a good point, though. However, the thread started on July 29th and today’s Aug. 01, the fourth day. I note, also, only 54 posts.
But I don’t steer the whole thing. It’s up to the Supreme Overlady of Small Dead Animals, Kate the Great. 😉
BTW, I thought “chat rooms” were for guys pretending to be lesbians talking to other guys also pretending to be lesbians. I wouldn’t know; as a conservative, I wouldn’t go there anyway. Too many lefto freaks, probably.
T. Guitar wrote:
“Covered faces are useful to the KKK, Corner store and bank robbers, jewellery store and B & E artists.”
Too bad Svend Robinson didn’t think of wearing a burqha. He just might have gotten away with stealing the approx. $64,000 ring. I recall he only turned himself in after realizing he had been positively id’d on tape as the thief. Guess he’s not that smart, eh? That, and picking a fight w/ the IDF outside the W. Bank, make one wonder if it’s more than just stress. Hell, when I feel stressed, I deal w/ it in constructive ways, like pigging out or having some fine wine. Or having some kind of workout. But that’s a right-wing thing, so I guess it’s out for lefties. They’d just go walking around naked, except for knee-high black socks and sandals, screaming inane things, I suppose.
I wish Svend had a different last name. Oh well, some things fall out of place just as one would hope.. eh? 73s TG
sarge thinks ya should just call ’em untermensch it rolls off the tongue so much nicer than “librano”
Or we could call them “falsch mensch”. As for me, I’m an “ubermensch”, understand, Sarge?
And what be ye, Sarge? Zarathustra has doubts. Of what consequence be ye, Sarge? Be ye a loudmouth? Do ye possess the virtue that makes small?