‘So if you want to wreak widespread
death and destruction, sign up with the US government rather than Al
Qaeda’s shoe-bombing division. Groin-grenades are apparently even
less lethal, judging from Abdulmutallab, not to mention their built-in
deterrent for faithful fanatics: what fun can a guy have with all those
virgins in Paradise if he’s burnt a certain area to a crisp?
Groin-grenades may be ineffective WMD’s, but they’re as
good as shoe-bombs at growing government’s power. If a lone wacko
with a bit of explosive in his sneaker excuses the TSA’s
foot-fetish, imagine the hay Leviathan can make from one with a bomb in
his crotch: “I think we have to head in that direction [of virtual
strip-searches with millimeter-wave scanning],” the histrionic Pete
King intoned. “Yes, there is some brief violation of privacy with a
full body scan. But on the other hand, if we can save thousands of
lives, to me, we have to make that decision”.’
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