Way to Fail, Homeland Security

So, tell me again why we have invasive airport security and have to take our shoes off before we can board a plane?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/wealthy-quiet-unassuming-the-christmas-day-bomb-suspect-1851090.html

This guy hid the bomb in his underpants.

I'm sure the government will respond by making us all fly in hospital gowns now.

Or, we could be like the Israeli's - use all manner of terrorist profiling for passengers (yes, gasp!, this includes racial profiling), arm the pilots, and stop with the bleeding heart criminal rights garbage that rewards the unlawful and punishes the innocent.

Oh, and the Department of Homeland Security could actually, you know, do its job.

From the article above:

"Dr Mutallab said he was planning to meet with police in Nigeria last night after realising his son had joined the notorious roster of al-Qa'ida terrorists, and is said to have warned the US authorities about his son's extreme views six months ago."

You read that right. The terrorist's own father warned us about this nutjob SIX MONTHS AGO, and he was still allowed to board a plane to the USA.

Janet Napolitano, the inept director of Homeland Security, who thinks we should spend more time persecuting "right wing extremists" (read: white male war veterans), and who's legacy as Governor of Arizona includes a budget deficit of historic proportions and those photo radar cameras we all LOVE, should be fired immediately.

Sadly, the Obama administration is too busy trying to socialize medicine in this country to pay any attention to the ongoing threat of terrorism.