Posted on 11/18/2010 3:11:11 AM PST by Scanian
With all the bad press the TSA has received recently, we can't be sure if the acronym stands for Transportation Security Administration, Touches Sensitive Areas, or Truly Scandalous Attention. But, for sure, its pat-downs and sci-fi radiation screeners give many of us another good reason to avoid the increasingly unfriendly skies. Yet while the TSA right now has supplanted the IRS as the bureaucracy we most love to hate, its policies are merely part of a longstanding cultural trend: the failure to recognize that the good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
It's the same reason why certain cities, most notably London, are now surveilling their residents with thousands of video cameras. If you're not willing to administer punishment sufficient to deter all the criminally inclined save a few intractable miscreants, some of whom you can catch, the only other solution is to have an all-seeing Big Brother that can catch all. It's much like treating a cancer: If you cannot target just the affected tissue, the only other solution is to treat the whole body.
Because the former is preferable not just in medicine, but also law enforcement, behavioral sciences specialists long ago developed the method called "profiling." Unfortunately, social-engineering specialists soon after discredited the universal application of profiling with a method called propaganda. Consequently, when we want to administer targeted treatment in the effort to thwart terrorism, we're told that it's "racial profiling" and beyond consideration. This is utter nonsense.
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What if they are Jewish?
If someone is willing to put a bomb up their butt, don’t you think they would also be willing to eat a piece of bacon to complete their mission?
Did he go through TSA, or foreign security before boarding?
If you were a terrorist, would you choose the airline with the tightest security, or the weakest? I don’t believe terrorists fly El-Al very much.
What if they lied and ate it anyway?
??? What if the said the were a different religion or lied?
Don’t you think someone willing to put a bomb in their butt, would be willing to eat a piece of bacon to complete his mission?
Do they have TSA screeners at the Hong Kong airport?
Absolutely not. The whole reason they do a suicide bombing is to be made a martyr. Instant trip to heaven and 72 virgins all their own. EXCEPT if they are defiled at the time of their death. Then they go straight to hell.
So by keeping them defiled when on the plane they have no incentive to die on the plane. They can't claim their virgins so why bother with the attack.
Why bother? To fulfill their mission.
I disagree, but since neither one of us is a Muslim suicide terrorist, I’ll stick with what I believe, and you, with what you believe.
I apologize. I forgot that practicing Jews as well as some Christians also avoid pork.
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