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Jeremy Clarkson: “a bit of racism” would fix delays at the airport
Jeremy Clarkson is in the middle
The star of the hit BBC show Top Gear is under attack for injecting some common sense into the airport security debate.
The BBC Top Gear presenter claimed that the long delays at Heathrow border control were because immigration officials were no longer allowed to use their discretion to wave certain passengers through.
He said: “Nobody is waved through any more. The result is plain for all to see. There’s a two-hour wait.
“And the problem is: the only possible solution is to introduce a bit of racism.”
He added: “Nobody likes a racist. Nobody likes prejudice. It has no place at work, at play, or in government.
“But at Heathrow airport? Hmmm.”
Clarkson, who is now notorious for his provocative comments, used his Sun newspaper column to wade into the controversy over passengers facing queues of up to three hours at Heathrow.
He claimed that liberal attitudes prevented officials targeting only passengers deemed “high risk”.
“You can’t get that sort of thing past the bleeding-heart liberals. They believe that … a hook-handed imam with fire in his heart and hatred in his eyes is just as likely to whip up anti-western sentiment as Joanna Lumley.”
A spokesman for the Public and Commercial Services Union, which represents Border Force workers, said: “Clarkson is an idiot.”
Clarkson, 52, has a long record of making controversial remarks. He provoked a wave of complaints last November when he jokingly suggested on BBC’s The One Show that striking public sector workers should be shot in front of their families.
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“PROFILING”:
A transitive verb describing the process of drawing generalizations about the criminal proclivities of certain groups, based upon decades and mountains of truly overwhelming data and conclusive evidence.
Formerly, a technique that permitted law enforcement to focus on the likely culprits, rather than the necessity to scrutinize everyone EXCEPT the likely culprits, as the Justice Department under our Bolshevik-in-Chief would prefer in the context of transportation safety.
In particular, an inclination to recognize that sweaty Moslems with one-way airline tickets are probably a greater threat to airline safety than 90 year-old grandmothers with grand-kids in tow…
Now, apparently, a common law crime in areas where truly dishonest office-holders wilt under public pressure generated by this exact, same, criminal element, which is the source of the problem to begin with…
May 6th, 2012 at 1:21 pmThere is another way. STOP FLYING! The Airlines will demand a working solution.
May 6th, 2012 at 1:34 pm“Jeremy Clarkson: “a bit of racism” would fix delays at the airport”
He should have thought this out and said this instead:
“a bit of race REALITY would fix delays at the airports”
May 6th, 2012 at 3:13 pm