Exploding Lipstick?

I see that in the wake of last week’s hysterical, knee-jerk over reaction to the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic flights, the dimwitted numskulls at the BAA continue their hard of thinking campaign by banning cosmetics from passengers’ hand luggage.

Britain’s main airport operator yesterday banned all cosmetics from passengers’ hand luggage unless the items were bought at shops in the departure lounge.

Under the new restrictions, imposed by BAA, travellers are forbidden to take talcum powder, lipstick, eyeliner and mascara through security control.

These items had been exempted from the ban, while other cosmetics such as lip gloss had been banned from the start of the terrorist alert. The move was designed to end confusion, said a spokesman for BAA which owns Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports.

Transatlantic passengers found their position unchanged with all cosmetics and liquids banned from the flight cabin, even if they were bought at duty free shops before boarding.

It emerged last night that the BAA directive was its interpretation of the instructions issued last week by the Department for Transport.

What with stupid, Hollywood style pseudo exploding drinks bollocks, this once more demonstrates that the British authorities are hell bent on handing the terrorist a victory on the proverbial plate. Just how, exactly, is a potential hijacker going to hold up an aircraft with cosmetics, eh?

“Okay, give me the controls to the plane or the lips get it!”

Give me a break. Terrorism works by terrorising society into a state of fear and paranoia. The evidence so far suggests that it is working extremely well, thankyou very much; thanks, indeed, to the buffoons in government and the unthinking sheep who believe every outpouring from the intellectually challenged on the government benches and their media mouthpieces. We may as well roll over and play dead. Why not just introduce an Islamic theocracy and shari’a law while we are at it? They might as well for the massive propaganda coup they have handed to these people.

It’s simple. So simple even a government minister should be able to grasp it. You carry on as normal. This, effectively, gives a two finger salute to the terrorist. We will not be bowed, we will not change our society, we will not be terrorised. Yes, investigate, yes, take reasonable precautions – and, if necessary, use that cross-bench support and introduce intercept evidence in court. But do not indulge in the hysterical over reaction and disruption we’ve witnessed in the past week. Osama must be wetting himself.