Par Le Vous Frances?

Par le vous Frances? Well, if you can, would someone please send the French people a message for me? Please tell them that their police force working at Charles de Gaulle airport are making the entire population of France look fairly damn stupid to the rest of the civilized world.

”Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90 flights from Charles de Gaulle, authorities searched planes upon arrival in Los Angeles and New York.”

Can you believe this? The French airport police last Friday planted several ounces of plastic explosive in an unsuspecting passenger’s bag as an exercise to test the abilities of their bomb sniffing dog(s.)

The dogs caught the bag, but then the French version of the Keystone Cops let the bag get away from them.

Then they let the bag get put in the hold of an airliner.

Then they let the airliner leave Paris.

Then they reported that as of Saturday night, the explosives were still missing.

"Indeed, it's possible that someone will have a surprise when he opens his bag," they say.

I'd say that "a surprise” is a bit of an international grade understatement.

Ok, I have a few questions for the French law enforcement “professionals,” as well as a serious recommendation as to what the US authority’s response should be as a result of this situation.

First question… WHAT THE &%#@*% WERE YOU THINKING!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Next, why did you have to put the stuff in some civilian's bag in the first place? Why couldn’t you just put together your own “loaded” bag and add it to the luggage mix in the airport operations? Then, once you realized the bag was loose, why didn’t you stop everything at de Gaulle and find it. And finally, why did you let it fly?

“ "These dogs must be trained in the most realistic situation possible ... to be the most effective," (Police spokesman Pierre) Bouquin said.”

Sorry Pierre, but if you did feel it was necessary to put the C4 in some unsuspecting passenger’s bag, why didn’t you idiots at least write down the person’s name and travel destination?

We here in the United States close down entire airport terminals and cease all landings and takeoffs for hours at a time if someone so much as burps and it smells funny. Yet, you French Fools put plastic explosive on one of 90 airplanes and then let it leave to some unknown destination—potentially beyond your own borders?

If you can’t stop explosives from being loaded on an airplane when you KNOW that it is in the airport, how can we expect you to prevent Abdul or Mubarik, one of your lovely, peaceful, indigenous Muslim residents from boarding an airplane with hidden, unknown explosives?

The lame excuse for letting the bag fly is that there was no detonator included in the planted package. Well, suppose some real dangerous person finds the C4 and manages to make or buy a detonator for future use. I, personally, appreciate receiving frequent flyer miles and other perks from airlines, but handing out do-it-yourself bomb kits at the airport doesn’t do much to enhance my feeling of security.

This is a serious problem, folks. The traveling American public, the Transportation Security Administration, and the Homeland Security Administration should demand an immediate audit of the entire French Security operation and if we are not satisfied with the results, we should ban all flights originating in France until remedial measures are taken.

The French are going to aid and abet the death of us all before long if we insist on keeping up the politically correct illusion of their being our friends and ally.

Baah Humbug...


UPDATE: Sunday Afternoon 12/05/04

I just got back in from Christmas Tree shopping and the first thing I did was jump on the internet to see where this story was going.

First,the bad news: As of 4:30 PM EST this afternoon the explosive material is still missing.

Now the good news: It seems that the French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has instructed the Gendarmes (that's French for "Keystone Cops") to stop using live explosives placed in innocent citizens' baggage to conduct training exercises.

I have a suggestion...In the future, why don't they run Jacques Chirac through the airport with a load of C4 shoved up into his personal nether regions and let the dogs practice sniffing him out.

I'd call that killing two birds with one stone... so to speak...