Anti-American Euro-Weenie Update: Dangerous Writer Grounds Trans-Atlantic Flight

CALVO-OSPINA: CLEARLY DANGEROUS EURO-WEENIE

Last Monday we reported about the threat to national security from Polish concert pianist Krystian Zimerman, who added a criticism of US military policies to his performance in Los Angeles.

Enduring America has learned, however, of an even more dangerous challenge to the US homeland. Fortunately, our alert homeland security forces were able to stop Hernando Calvo Ospina, a Colombian writer corrupted by his residency in France, before he could strike us with biting sarcasm or villainous irony.

On 18 April, Mr Calvo Ospina smuggled himself onto an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico City by purchasing a round-trip ticket. As the plane was nearing the east coast of the United States, however, the captain announced that US authorities had denied permission to cross American airspace.

Short of fuel, the plane diverted to the island of Martinique in the Caribbean where passengers speculated on the reason for the US refusal. A real mystery, because ""nobody...looks like a Muslim."

When the plane was again airborne, flying to Mexico by circumventing US territory, a co-pilot told Mr Calvo Ospina --- the author of Bacardi: The Hidden War on "the commercial and political activites" of the rum producer --- the truth. You, sir, are the terrorist.

At the Mexico City terminal, Mexican authorities --- prompted by "three or four men behind [a] glass partition" --- quizzed him, no doubt about his plans to paper-bomb the US with copies of his forthcoming book on Jack Daniel's. However, after queries such as "Are you a Catholic?" and "Do you know how to handle firearms?", they allowed him to catch his next flight to Managua, Nicaragua. (Another example, if any were needed, about how America's "friends to the south" are letting the jihadists/wrtiers win.)

So, my friends, next time you visit Mexico (perhaps in 2038, after there is no more swine flu), keep an eye on that radical writer in the seat near you --- he/she can be identified by the FreeTrade sticker, scruffy beard, and the copy of Chomsky in a jacket pocket. But do not fear: the Americans are also watching.

The pen may be mightier than the shoe bomb, but it shall not harm you.