Posted on 11/22/2010 6:01:06 PM PST by Kaslin
Safety: When U.S soldiers with nail clippers and flight attendants who've survived breast cancer are treated as potential terrorists, you know the TSA is "acting stupidly." Yet the administration thinks everything is fine.
Imagine the department of motor vehicles with cattle prods, and you're close to the mentality exhibited by Transportation Safety Administration chief John Pistole on CNN's "State of the Union" show Sunday. He told host Candy Crowley that what the Israelis have "is top-notch security," but the U.S. won't use these techniques because America does not profile.
Excuse us? The U.S. won't use what the world's No. 1 terrorist target has shown to be effective because it's allegedly discriminatory, but is willing to strip-search grandmas and little children at random? This is cruelty and inefficiency raised to a science.
On Saturday, President Obama called the full-body scanners and groin checks being performed "a huge inconvenience for all of us."
He said, "In the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing, our TSA personnel are properly under enormous pressure to make sure that you don't have somebody slipping on a plane with some sort of explosive device on their persons." Like cancer survivors with prosthetic breasts?
As tennis star John McEnroe might put it, Mr. President, you cannot be serious. The Israelis manage to avoid disaster by checking the passenger lists, doing background checks on prospective fliers and personally interviewing those they deem suspicious.
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If a TSA agent actually found some explosives on a terrorist they’d knock the passengers down trying to get out of there! They probably wet themselves. ‘Cause they sure as hell wouldn’t know what else to do.
It is striking that the one group in all of this that has gone virtually unmentioned is the Airlines themselves. If Americans start abandoning flying in favor of driving, taking the bus, or simply staying home for the holidays, the airlines would quickly feel the financial heat and would start squalling like pigs for changes to these draconian searches.
It is striking that the one group in all of this that has gone virtually unmentioned is the Airlines themselves. If Americans start abandoning flying in favor of driving, taking the bus, or simply staying home for the holidays, the airlines would quickly feel the financial heat and would start squalling like pigs for changes to these draconian searches.
You’re exactly right.
And at this point, as a Catholic, I’m wondering if it’s morally allowed to fly in the United States.
I think they’ve gone unmentioned because they’ve been strangely silent. I emailed four of the major carriers to let them know they’d lost my revenue while this crap was in effect. Only two wrote back and they basically both said “we’re not responsible, the TSA is”. So, I don’t know if they’re running scared or just don’t care.
Oh, and they refer you to the TSA web site. How helpful that is. Check out their page on “Traveling with Children”. It only mentions the XRay machines for carry-ons and the walk-through metal detectors. So, if a parent read this and went to the airport with their kid, got in line and then didn’t like what they saw.....then they get to DO IT ANYWAY or face a $11,000 fine. Not only is our government taking our rights, but they’re LYING to us daily about it.
Insanity.
Oh, really? The difficulty with that is that the TSA is the federal government, and the federal government has specific rules it's supposed to obey. This is one of them:
Amendment Four: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Clearly there is a disagreement between government and citizen over what constitutes "unreasonable". The former considers nude pictures and genital groping to be reasonable. The citizens differ. And the government has won so many of these so often that it apparently assumes it will win all of them, forever. Bad assumption, worse public relations, disastrous politics.
I’d tell them I will strip naked and they can observe from a distance but if they attempt to touch me I will kick the shit out of them!
who the hell was it that got us the notion that ‘profiling’ is some how wrong?
It is not only right, it is NECESSARY to wisely use limitted resources.
If some one dies because we didn’t want to offend anyone by ‘profiling’ a list of possible suspects, I hope they sue thair asses of right up to Obammy
If your need to fly requires that people with prosthetics and colestomy bags have to be abused, then you don't really need to fly.
There are OTHER WAYS to handle this. CAIR won't like them, but they're complicit in the terrorist attacks anyway ~ their opinions can be safely ignored ~ Woodrow Wilson would have imprisoned them.
It was the left who did. They considered it racist, but it never dawned on them that it could save lives.
The one good thing about these searches is that it has finally put to rest the absurd notion that black males are better equipped than white males.
The reason for this farce is obvious: Obama & Co. want to nationalize the commercial airline industry.
What other conclusion can be drawn? The TSA tactics will drive away passengers, bankrupting the airlines. Who else but the Gubmint to bail/buy them out? Another LARGE piece of the economy owned/operated by Obama & Co. Then, Obama can start HIS version of profiling.
If you like Government Motors your gonna love Government Airlines.
So, Obama thinks it's a great inconvenience for ALL of us? Right. Says he who boards AF One.
Pbffffffffft.
“Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!”
32 second clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKdSXfPl8vY
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