Something I've noticed - in recent days we've seen two separate aviation-related incidents involving women. On one, a trans-Atlantic flight was diverted to Boston after a female passenger began behaving strangely on the flight. There's a pretty good account of what happened in yesterday's Best of The Web Today column on the Wall Street Journal's opinion website (www.opinionjournal.com). Subsequently, a woman attempted to sneak potentially explosive liquids on a plane at an airport in Huntington, West Virginia.
These two incidents may be coincidental, but I wonder. We've heard a lot of hand-wringing about profiling passengers and the legal, moral and ethical pitfalls involved. I'm guessing there will be more attempts, but the perpetrators may not be young male Arabic or South Asian Muslims (e.g., Pakistanis or Malaysians). The nation grows weary of all this. But there's a reason why the Founders termed "eternal vigilance" the price of liberty. And all the Carter administration federal judges in Detroit (and elsewhere), and all the shrill self-congratulatory rulings they issue from the bench, won't change that.
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