New Terrorism Plot Uncovered in the U.K.

Very early this morning (in Ontario anyway) the British police arrested twenty-one people on terrorism charges and announced that they had been planning to blow up trans-Atlantic flights to the United States with liquid explosives. As a result, the air travel world has gone to hell in a hand-basket. In London, and in fact all airports in the U.K. with flights to the U.S.A., all carry-on luggage is now verbotten. All people are allowed to take on are wallets/small purses, passports, baby milk/formula and medicines. The last two on the list have to be tasted by the passenger before they are allowed on-board. The U.S. has gone on high alert as well, deploying heavily armed (read: armed with machine guns) police to the airports receiving international flights. And all people travelling by air in the U.S.A. today have to have their shoes x-rayed. Even Canadian airports have gotten into the act, with the airport in Ottawa getting in on the act, not allowing passengers to buy drinks after passing through security. Apparently these restrictions will be in place for the next forty-eight to seventy-two hours.

These restrictions are playing all hell with the travel plans of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. I have seen footage of London Heathrow airport and it looks like a zoo. Wall-to-wall people. No space to move. It must be absolutely hellish.

And already, the blaming of Muslims has started. The American Homeland Security Secretary declared that the plot appeared to be the work of Al-Qaeda. Even the CBC was airing footage of a few bearded men dressed in stereotypically Muslim clothing (white robes and caps) pushing carts of luggage at Heathrow as though they were doing something wrong just by being there. People don't even bother waiting for the results of the investigation, they behave as though it is all predetermined, you know what I mean. The whole "Oh my God!! They wanted to blow up a plane?!?! They must be Muslim fundamentalists!! 'Cause no-one but Muslims ever blows anything up." That attitude makes me sick.

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