Divert me to the Moon

Remember back when you could pick up a newspaper (or in my case, hit news.google.com) and not read that an airplane had been diverted due to mass hysteria?

It seems that this recent trend in air travel was spawned by the supposed "foiled terrorist plot" in England, two weeks ago (which is 100% fodder for a scathing stinkfoot.org article in itself - I wish I had more time). This recent hysteria is being labelled by some as "post 9/11 precautions" which is damn funny as 9/11 was, oh, almost FIVE years ago. Why were these new trends in "flight safety" not being practiced on 9/12/01?? The reason is that the ruling class has lost a tremendous amount of public support: the "war on terror" is failing and extremely unpopular, poll numbers for Bush are low as they've ever been, and even Democrats who claim this phony war is a good thing are losing primaries. These villans are behaving like trapped rats: they're using any tactic - no matter how painful or destructive to try and gain an advantage. By keeping us frighened (not frightened of them, but frightened in general) they maintain a small amount of control; because that's all they can muster. And most of the public is eating all of this with a big rusty spoon: if the guy sitting next to you has K-Y jelly, he must be part of an intricate plot to blow up the plane; and if a woman drinks her own breast milk she's on our side. It's a good thing I never fly, as I'd probably be escorted off of every flight in shackles for running my mouth or chewing gum.