Is the "outrageous" Jeremy Clarkson the only realist in Britain?
We read:
"Jeremy Clarkson has risked outrage by suggesting that long queues for airport border control checks could be solved by "a bit of racism."
The BBC Top Gear presenter claimed that the long delays at Heathrow border control were because immigration officials were no longer allowed to use their discretion to wave certain passengers through.
He said: "Nobody is waved through any more. The result is plain for all to see. There's a two-hour wait.
"And the problem is: the only possible solution is to introduce a bit of racism."
He added: "Nobody likes a racist. Nobody likes prejudice. It has no place at work, at play, or in government. "But at Heathrow airport? Hmmm."
Clarkson, who is now notorious for his provocative comments, used his Sun newspaper column to wade into the controversy over passengers facing queues of up to three hours at Heathrow.
He claimed that liberal attitudes prevented officials targeting only passengers deemed "high risk".
"You can't get that sort of thing past the bleeding-heart liberals. They believe that . a hook-handed imam with fire in his heart and hatred in his eyes is just as likely to whip up anti-western sentiment as Joanna Lumley."
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2 comments:
I gotta disagree with Clarkson. There is one airline that has not been hit by terrorists: the one run by the Israelis. They don't use race, but they do use profiling; specifically, psychological profiling. Their security guys are trained how to ask questions and read reactions.
Considering that they should be target number 1 for the terrorists, their success rate is truly impressive.
Governments get the financial priorities all wrong as it's totally counter-productive : border controls cut back for budget reasons / pirate naval patrols in the Indian Ocean cut back for budget reasons. Can't they work out the math? But they can give endless "aid" to sink economies!
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