Nigeria: The Whine Heard Round The World

by Neal Boortz

Reacting to the attempting bombing on Christmas Day, the US governmenthas now singled out specific countries for special checks at USairports. ‘Bout damn time. Those countries are Nigeria, Cuba, Iran,Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen,Algeria, Libya, Somalia and Sudan. You will notice that all of thesecountries (except for one – Cuba) have one predominant trait in common:Islam. The peaceful, serene religion of Islam is the dominant religion— or cult — or whatever you want to call it.

You knew it had to happen … we now have one country – Nigeria – thatis complaining about the tougher screening of its passengers headed tothe United States. The Nigerian government has saidthe airport rules discriminate against 150 million Nigerians. What sortof rules are we talking about? Citizens of these 14 countries headed tothe United States will be subject to special body searches and luggagechecks. Wow, sounds like a real inconvenience to me.
Every time I enter a commercial airport from now until I am gropedand padded down. For some reason they have to grab my ass because myknee causes the wand to beep. I make the choice to fly commercialknowing this is the case … and that’s the way it is. The response tothe Nigerians is simple. You can sit there as long as you want whiningabout our security efforts … and as long as you just whine that’s OK.

But if you fail to implement the security procedures people will not beallowed to board flights headed to the U.S. in your country. Yourcitizens don’t have any right to be on a U.S. bound flight. It’s notall that bad. This gives your people more time to sit at home and writethose emails about the $20 million they just can’t wait to deposit intoour bank accounts and dream up some new and even more amazing creditcard fraud schemes.

Yeah … we’re really going to suffer when that Nigerian tourism falls off.

2010-01-05