As part of their effort to…. I’m not sure what… publicly begrudge taking security measures to protect Canadians? Mock the war on terror and do as the state-run CBC does, insinuating it’s merely a ”so-called war on terror”? Mimic the far-leftist-quasi-Marxists at the Toronto Star or join them in implying it’s “George Bush’s war on terror” (and therefore a hideous joke that we naturally disagree with and shouldn’t take seriously)? Accentuate the notion that our civil liberties are being totally flushed down the toilet (à la the ACLU) in yet another moronic effort by “the man” (i.e., a western capitalist possibly grounded in Judeo-Christian roots and common sense) to enhance national security and protect Canadian lives? Or is it part of their continuing effort to enhance the myth that teachers are somehow inherently good and beyond reproach? I’m not sure, but for some reason, the National Post chose to fake you out this morning, as I see it.
They tell you in their big headline that a teacher—a school teacher—gasp!—has been caught on the new “no-fly list” that is being created as a result of some terror activities you may have heard about.
A teacher I tell you! They’re at par with angelic grandmothers! And Clintons! Suzuki! Michael Moore! Implicitly! How could a teacher possibly be a security threat?! Come on—it’s a teacher for the love of the deity of your choice or lack thereof depending on how you feel! They’re underpaid angels of mercy! I mean not the ones who are caught raping their students or the ones who are apparently nothing short of clerics of the church of liberalism teaching our kids that capitalism is bad and Marxism is yummy and that the terrorists are simply misunderstood and that Christianity is the actual problem; or that God sucks or that Bush is a Nazi or that America is bad or that conservatives are scary and evil; or that unencumbered sex at the earliest age with the nearest male or female (it simply doesn’t matter) is good and that abortion is better. I mean the average teacher!
But seriously, furthering the myth that teachers are inherently “good”—the paramount of goodness—the very example of not a terrorist—is but another liberal media pastime today. I suspect they hardly even notice they’re doing it because as I often say, the liberal media is now so liberal, they don’t even know how liberal they are anymore. Here, they enhance a “teacher is good” myth gratuitously, on a totally unrelated matter, and can’t even get that right, as they seeming seek to drive an additional agenda at the same time.
The fake-out here is perpetrated by the admission, mid-story, that this story has nothing whatever to do with any anti-terror George Bush-created terror threat monster called a no-fly list—this is simply the result of routine security measures that Air Canada had already been using for who-knows-how-long. The new Bush-inspired (or Bush created, if you’re the Toronto Star, or Islamofascist terrorist, if you’re sober) anti-terror no-fly list hasn’t even started being used, yet.
The scary story begins:
School teacher finds her name on no-fly list
Transport Canada putting finishing touches on security system
BY ANDREW MAYEDA
CanWest News ServiceOTTAWA • Canada’s no-fly list is expected to officially launch in the next few months, but Allison Baker already knows what it’s like to get caught in the web.
Already knows. About getting caught in that awful web of stupid awfulness. (And ya know, in any case, the point is, no good can come of these “lists”!)
Near the end of the scary story:
But some airlines, such as Air Canada, already apply no-fly lists using intelligence data from Canadian and U.S. authorities.
“As part of our security measures, we do screen for names,” Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzgerald said.
And to think that when the no-fly lists do actually start to be used, teachers are not automatically going to be separated off the security lists. For shame! They’re teachers!
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