GIMME A BREAK!

I have always found the plaintive cry of "It's not fair!" to be both juvenile and naive. Now, we're hearing it from a nation that finds us discriminatory because we prefer not to have people from their nation board an airplane overseas and ignite themselves in order to make WAR on the United States of America - a sovereign nation with every right and obligation to protect its own borders and citizens.

ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria, home of the failed US plane bomber, Monday branded new security measures for passengers flying to the United States unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against its 150 million people.

The US government announced that travellers from 14 countries, including Nigeria, are to be subjected to extra checks including body pat-downs after a young Nigerian was accused of trying to blow up a US jet on Christmas Day.

But Nigeria's Information Minister Dora Akunyili said that Africa's most populous nation did not have a history of terrorism and such a move could not be justified.

"It is unfair to include Nigeria on the US list for tighter screening because Nigerians do not have terrorist tendencies," Akunyili told journalists.

I believe it was one of their nationals who attempted to incinerate his own BVDs on approach to Detroit's airport on the most solemn and sacred day of the Christian year! But hey, we should just let them batter us at will in order to remain "fair". My response to that is profane and unprintable!