Napolitano to American Travelers: We’ll Take Naked Pics of You and Touch Your ‘Junk,’ and You’ll Like It! (Updated)
Update: Here’s my appearance regarding this article on America’s Morning News radio, 11/17/2010.
The combination of arrogance, malevolence, and incompetence that has come to define the Obama administration seems to have found a permanent poster girl atop the Department of Homeland Security. DHS and its big government spawn, the Transportation Security Administration, have come under fire lately for insane policies that are literally jokes outside the U.S. If you don’t believe me, take off your shoes as you await security scanning in, say, Japan, and watch the normally stoic Japanese security guards double over laughing at you.
These policies of photographically scanning us down to our skins and touching us in ways that trigger our Stranger Danger reflex really do nothing to make us more secure. They haven’t stopped any known attempts to blow up any airplane anywhere. They don’t put true terrorists off balance. The last couple of would-be bombers, like the Ft. Hood jihadist mass murderer, had all the data points that made them worthy of a global terror watch list, but because we don’t do that sort of thing effectively, they still get to get on their planes or get ahold of weapons and even get promoted in the U.S. military. And meanwhile, we’re having TSA agents grope nuns. Seriously.
While Sister Mary Elizabeth either digitally kicks the habit or feels the fickle hand of Uncle Sam or Aunt Samantha up close and personal, Johnny Jihad with the Yemeni passport stamped with Pakistani, Afghan, and Syrian stops on his journey of self-discovery puts on his shoes and chuckles merrily and unmolested toward gate C-4.
Americans are rightly offended at all this. This not only violates our physical space, it insults our intelligence. Common sense says, if you have folks who are up to no good and they tend to fit a certain make and model, then you use those specifications to detect them and stop them. But because the “p” word — “profile” — has become a political four-letter word, we can’t go there.
Pretty soon we won’t be going anywhere. Travelers are starting to revolt against the DHS’ offensive and malignant stupidity. The latest rebel is John Tyner, the mild-mannered man who told TSA agents that violating his personal space would bring about legal repercussions.
Well, that’s not quite how he said it. He said it a little more pithily: “If you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested.” Time was, such a thing was so obvious that one seldom if ever needed to say it in public. Those times are gone and now we’re showing the digital peep shows and public gropes on CNN, in what may be the most twisted version of Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame yet.
I am through flying for any reason whatsoever. I will drive anywhere in the country I need to go. After 9/11, I understood the need for increased security, even if I wasn’t crazy about it, and I took two flights between 9/11/01 and 6/11/10. No longer. What is going on now is simply insane, and I will not put up with it.
This morning, a couple of radio talk hosts in Columbus were discussing this, and the gist of the conversation was that your reaction was the consensus among a lot of former “frequent fliers” they knew, business people who routinely spent several days every month flying back and forth to conduct their corporate affairs. And that wasn’t even including vacationers.
Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation, wants to “coerce people out of their cars”. Janet Napolitano and her minions are bidding fair to encourage people to drive rather than fly.
I love it when authoritarian ideologues take careful aim, wind up with the ball bat- and smack themselves upside the head.
clear ether
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We have to understand the truth about what is really going on here.
Although we infidels are not the threat, not the ones with explosive underwear, not the ones hijaking airliners and incinerating office workers, not the ones with explosive tennis shoes, it is WE who are now GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT.
But as reprehensible as the actions of the Federal govenment are, we must not lose sight of the FACT that this is simply a modern day reaction to Muhammed’s 1,400 year old mandate for global jihad.
We are not at war with Islam, but Islam is definitely at war with us. Jihad theology and ISLAMIC WORLD WAR
Cont’d….
Jihad theology and universal, unending ISLAMIC WORLD WAR is the prime directive and most important canonnical foundation of Islam. It is the reason there are over a billion Muslims, not because of peace, love, tolerance and forgiveness.
The hard truth is that Islam needs to be treated just like the Mafia. And like the Mafia, Islam needs to be dismantled and destroyed by the the RICO Act (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act).
Under the law, racketeering activity means:
- Any violation of state statutes against gambling, murder, kidnapping, extortion, arson, robbery, bribery, dealing in obscene matter, or
- dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act);
- Any act of bribery, counterfeiting, theft, embezzlement, fraud, dealing in obscene matter, obstruction of justice, slavery, racketeering, gambling, money laundering, commission of murder-for-hire, and several other offenses covered under the Federal criminal code (Title 18);
- Embezzlement of union funds;
- Bankruptcy fraud or securities fraud;
- Drug trafficking; long-term and elaborate drug networks can also be prosecuted using the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute;
- Money laundering and related offenses;
- Bringing in, aiding or assisting aliens in illegally entering the country (if the action was for financial gain);
- Acts of Terrorism.
Acts of organized terrorism, murder, money laundering, slavery….if there was ever a texbook example of whom to use the RICO Act against, Muhammed’s killing cult of Islam and its followers are it.
A final thought…..
Next time you are subjected to this humiliation at the airport…as you take off your shoes, take off your hat, take off your belt, throw away your bottle of water, take out you laptop, open your bags and let a stranger rifle through your personal belongings, put your toothbrush and your tiny tube of toothpaste in a plastic see thru baggie, then subject yourself to some stranger touching your body, then get electonically strip searched by a different stranger…..
….make sure you remember that this is a gift of Muhammed to us dirty kafirs, guilty until proven innocent….a gift of Islam.
And make sure the people around you know it too.
~ The Infidel Alliance
I think that’s the administration’s ultimate goal. Close car dealerships, target small businesses with insane regulation and tax hikes, ban drilling in the gulf, and now – hurt the airline industry. All part of the regime’s anti-capitalist crusade.
Uh, isn’t it the forceful greening of the economy? When no one flies anymore, the prices will go sky high and only the elites will be able to travel while the rest of us are in the proverbial caves, no electricity, no running water, no nothing… and they can happily drum on like they did in the dark ages…
Have you ever noticed that when the delusional, fluff-headed, nit wits want to ‘go ahead’ with another of their brain dead schemes, they will always top it off with the lie “This is for your own good”?
Why do they have such a problem spewing out this lie to the most likely suspects? For the government and airlines to be in the business of groping and feeling up the public is outlandish. Not to mention spreading the ‘importance’ of being a peeping tom. They have demostrated beyond a shadow of a doubt, the senseless, the ignorant and most likely the mentally ill are in charge of security.
Living in Israel I am very familiar with El Al security-the best in the world.
NO groping, NO touching, just plain old metal detectors.The difference being, their grilling is verbal-not physical- and done BEFORE one gets to the check-in counter.The guards are NO nonsense, VERY observant, and professional.Most importantly, luggage/cargo is gone over with a fine tooth comb, no stone left unturned.And another thing-the armed security on board would shoot a terrorist, and call it a day’s work well done.
The former head of El Al security is on record stating that the TSA is basically full of crap if they think their methods will keep the public safe.
By the way, El Al PROFILES Arabs/Muslims(and others who appear suspicious-as they should!!
Too bad our current administration seems to have it in for Israel. Perhaps with an administration that actually valued our alliance with them we could convince some of those Israeli security guys to come over here and teach our high-school dropout TSA hacks a thing or two about effective security.
Good point. But, on the other hand, maybe they’re just stupid.
Adina, you are spot-on. I saw one of your Israeli security people on Mike Huckabee’s weekly television broadcast some months ago explaining the common-sense and very effective measures you describe. There ARE Americans who get it–sadly, they are not at present in office. Let’s fix that in 2012.
Why cannot the USA copy Israel and get things done properly. That would really be refreshing.
Because CAIR, the ACLU, and Rev. Wright would raise holy heck. And the leftard attitude towards prevention is to (1) disarm and otherwise disable any defensive response, and (2) apply politically correct policies regardless of their effectiveness.
If that is so,and I believe it is,why do you and your fellow Americans put up with it.You gave up and submitted,so don’t gripe now.
You know, I might not mind so much, if they served free Happy Meals in flight.
Yemeni Crickets
When you wish to travel far
Makes no difference who you are
Any modesty desires
Are stripped from you
If privacy is in your dream
No intrusion too extreme
When you wish to travel far
As dreamers do
Janet is kind
She brings to those who hate
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the gate
Machine steps in and sees you through
When you wish to travel far
Their dreams come true
When all the airlines go into the red because Americans are willing neither to be irradiated nor groped…when international business grinds to a halt because meetings between American and foreign CEOs and their lieutenants no longer occur…when the courts become clogged with suits against TSA goons for the maltreatment of women and children…when a terrorist next gets aboard a jet and either commits mass murder, or is stopped solely by the bravery of the civilians onboard…will those who’ve reduced American airline passengers to rightless cattle be sad…or happy?
I’ve placed my bet.
Let’s play ‘Doctor’; I’ll be the Doctor.
The latest scanners operate at wavelengths
roughly the same size as human cells, and
actually might damage them, or their DNA.
Dr. Pournelle pointed out the obvious
engineering truth years ago; A terrorist
who is willing to die in the act can bring
down a commercial airliner, and there is
nothing the authorities can do to prevent
it, except not let the terrorist board the
aircraft in the first place.
The safety of these full-body scanners would appear to be a question of fact, not opinion. Many people are nervous because they perceive a radiation hazard in these scanners but someone who sounded like he knew what he was talking about said that these scanners do NOT emit ionizing radiation and are therefore safe (or at least much less dangerous than something emitting ionizing radiation). Surely a reputable scientist with some test equipment could determine fairly conclusively whether these scanner are dangerous to public health or not. So why doesn’t someone round up such a scientist and run the appropriate tests and then get back to us with the results? If he or she says that the machines are safe, we’ve solved most of the problem right away and no one need be groped by the TSA folks.
The other objection is that they can take and save pictures of people. I feel sure that this aspect of the equipment could be disabled or removed. Why don’t air travellers demand that this be done and that each machine be inspected periodically to ensure that this feature has not bee re-enabled? A dated sticker could advised of the last inspection date and be prominently displayed so that the public would know that the equipment was not taking pictures. We inspect elevators in much the same way and it seems to work for elevators.
Stopping terrorism is a massively difficult job that is never likely to be 100% successful but determining if a machine is safe and that it does or does not have a particular capability should be pretty easy. Why don’t we satisfy ourselves that the machines are safe (if they are) and that they lack the ability to take and keep permanent pictures? Then 99.00% of us could avoid the ugly and embarassing prospect of being groped. The ultra-cautious/paranoid types who doubt that the authorities would tell the truth about the safety of the machines or the photographic features could still opt for groping if they wanted it.
The trouble with using scientific models to predict reality
is that models are _always_ in error; The only question is,
are the errors large enough to matter. In this case, there
is a reasonable doubt that TeraHertz radiation is safe and
the government is using the devices anyway; This is a hell
of a way to find out if they are wrong.
I’m not talking about relying on a scientific model, I’m talking about relying on scientific measuring equipment.
Back in the mid 80s, when I was doing computer programming for a large company, someone raised concerns about the safety of the monitors we were using, apparently due to concerns about the radiation levels. Much to my surprise, the company didn’t just pooh-pooh this concern and describe it as inappropriate or overblown: they hired people from the physics department of the local university to test each monitor with as oscilloscope to look for excessive radiation. I believe that each monitor in our department was examined. Each of us was given a written report detailing the exact levels of each kind of radiation found. I still have this report somewhere in a file cabinet in my basement. I’m proposing that similar steps be taken with the AIT scanners to ensure that they are safe.
Now, I agree that it is very difficult to assess exactly what levels of each kind of radiation are safe because everyone has their own standard for what is “safe enough”. Some people would demand that even if the level of radiation was so low that it would take ten thousand exposures to do you harm, that this was still too high an exposure while others, especially infrequent flyers, might be content if only a dozen exposures had no immediate observable effect. But most people are reasonable and I feel that some kind of standard could meet with general agreement. Those who thought the standard was too low would still be able to opt out of using the scanner and agree to be hand-searched or simply agree not to fly.
Typical liberals, with undertones of fascism. So we all have to suffer obscene indignities so as to avoid singling out and ‘hurting the feelings’ of those responsible- who are NOT Mennonites, Mormons or Methodists.
The very first “If you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested” link in this article goes to CNN, with the relevant news item. Having searched readers´ comments there, I did not succeed with a single instance of words starting with “isl”, “musl”, “mosl”, or “jih”. “Profiling” does not feature at all, although “profile” does, twice: Once in an actual comment, the second time right at the bottom of the page as: “My Profile.”
it is a convenient way to make you not use air travel.they aggravate you so much that you quit flying and start driving and then they lower the boom by raising fuel taxes. now you don’t fly because you don’t want to be groped or photographed nude and you can’t drive because gas is too expensive so you stay home. then you don’t see as many things that will upset you or the government, like obummer being chauffeured around in his caddy or flying 5 blocks to a meeting on the waste of money in government, or the shovel ready projects that,ironically, aren’t, or bridges to nowhere.
or it could just be the that the powers to be have no clue what they are doing and refuse to back down when they are shown to be idiots. after all they wouldn’t want to look like fools.
it clearly is the time to junk our phony TSA “security” screening for weapons and screen for terrorists using the profiling methods used successfully in Israel and other countries. And they can’t even screen for weapons; c. 10 yrs ago test at 4 major airports showed that they were fooled c. 80% of the time except for SFO, which was checked by a private security and only 205 got thru. (The State Media of course censored this news.)
The only profiling these low level TSA types have ever engaged in that I have observed is their shakedown of very old ladies and the avoidance of shaking down young middle eastern men.
another feather in the cap of the libs
mobility— that archaic right of citizens to freely move throughout the country is getting another nail in its coffin
first they get everyone in a battery operated dolt that only travels 40 miles per charge
next they plummet the real estate market so we cant uproot and sell our homes
finally they keep everyone from flying for fear of radiation and/or being grouped by “same gender… let me repeat same gender”
now we cant move anywhere and they can fleece us, rape us, and smother us in their good intentions
So, would it be against the rules to moan and hold the TSA agents hand while he/she is groping you?
Maybe we can just make it too uncomfortable for the screeners?
Would it be too much to request that an opposite gender TSA agent grope me ?
I’ve has similar thoughts.
Why aren’t the TSA agents protesting this?
The pilots’ willingness to cut a separate peace exempting themselves from searches while their customers are groped is disappointing as well.
I think the most effective solution to quickly put the kibosh on this whole mess is to threaten individual TSA agents with sexual assault, as in pressing actual, criminal charges, every time they have to do an “enhanced pat down.” I think even the threat would get the union behind a “rethinking” of the policy.
Maybe if everyone did that, moan and squirm like they were enjoying it and ask the agent to do it again, the agents would become embarrassed and refuse to grope? How much are they getting paid to grope all these people? What’s to stop a terrorist from inserting the bomb where it won’t show nor be reachable by an external grope? I’ve read that some have already done this. They are going to blow themselves up anyway, why wouldn’t they put the bombs inside? For that matter, the jihadists have doctors, the bombs could be planted internally via surgery and how would they find those? This whole groping bit is just so stupid – it fit’s the liberal mind set perfectly.
well it is not so far fetched of an idea—> breast implants were found to be made of plastic explosives and attempted use by women in burqas, not detectable by metal detector or gropes.
CAIR has already started the “poor discriminated” WHINE- advising MUSLIMAS to refuse the scans then refuse the grope- told them to insist only your headscarf be touched–
so everyone- get a headscarf next time yuo travel and try that!
if they cpomplain or detain you start yelling, as they told the MUSLIMAS to do- cry discrimination say they are RACISTS for singling you out- cry sex pervert
NO WAY IN HELL SHOULD ANYONE be allowed to grope you for no reason
we need the most effective scan and we don’t use it
DOGS!!!! dogs smell nervousness and can detect explosives
plus Muslims will bitch and moan about it!!! and we can save innocent and useful to society dogs from euthanization– double bonus
I have had extensive radiation and many xray for cancer- I do not want any xrays not all the machines are MRI- the xray I can bet you are not carefully caalibrated- and xray exposure is CUMULATIVE- so having many xrays evenif mild doses are harmful—-I have staples from surgery and they ring off the metal detector- I have been born in USA, never did any crime or suspected of one, I do not look like a terrorist, I am JEWISH- surely there is a way to pre-screen fliers like me by background- long before you can even buy a ticket it should be required- surely we can check out the MUSLIM fliers before they get on board too-
why must we all pay for the MUSLIMS protection of their jihadis??
why dont they quit crying and moaning and fight the terrorists whose fault this is instead of US, TSA, govt etc.
Dear Secretary Skunk-head;
While I applaud and support TSA’s and DHS’s unceasing efforts to make mass transit safer for us all in a non-racial and ethnic profiling mode, I must inform you that it is anathema to my deeply-held religious beliefs to engage in homosexual acts, even under the imprimatur of public safety.
Thus, as long as TSA has a preferably nubile and attractive female “on hand”, (so to speak), to administer any pat-downs or genital fondling deemed necessary to further promote transportation safety, I will cheerfully and indeed enthusiastically volunteer for this procedure.
Now it may be that a female TSA agent might feel that fondling my pipe-laying apparatus is a form of sexual discrimination, but in reply I would point that like I have the option not to fly, she has the option not to be employed by the government.
In closing, Secretary Skunk-head, none of the above applies if you will personally be conducting these searches.
I’ll take the bus instead.
Ms.Napoliatano better fly nothing but goverment issue flights! Because if she got in my line I would say that I see some bad no no inside her and have her subject to full cavity search! The P.C. B.S. is Insane period! Guess what if it looks suspecious it has a better chance of being so than an 80 year old from York Pa.! Napolitano you are a total nincompoop!
Body cavity search next!
After Islamists used box cutters to hijack and murder, our personal property became subject to invasive inspection.
After Islamists used tennis shoes to blow us up, our shoes became subject to invasive inspection.
After Islamists used hidden liquids to blow us up, our bottle of water became subject to invasive inspection.
After Islamists used explosives in their underwear, our bodies became subject to electronic strip searches and genital inspections….similar to what they do in prison.
We lose a little bit of our liberty and dignity everytime Islam strikes us – and have no doubt – it is ISLAM that is striking us.
This death by a thousand Islamic cuts is what brought down two of the worlds greatest, wealthiest and most powerful civilizations, the Persians and the Byzantines.
It is what Islam wants to do to us. It is their inspiration from Allah, their mandate from Muhammed – to destroy us as they have destroyed others.
You think body cavity searches are unfathomable? Think again:
“Inside a Saudi palace, the scene was the bloody aftermath of an al Qaeda attack in August aimed at killing Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, head of Saudi Arabia’s counter terrorism operations.”
“To get his bomb into this room, Abdullah Asieri, one of Saudi Arabia’s most wanted men, avoided detection by two sets of airport security including metal detectors and palace security. He spent 30 hours in the close company of the prince’s own secret service agents – all without anyone suspecting a thing.”
“How did he do it? ASIERI HAD A POUND OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES, PLUS A DETONATOR INSERTED IN HIS RECTUM.”
Will we react to this the same way we reacted to Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abdul Muttalib???
When are we going to face the truth? It is not a small number of misguided men misinterpreting the teachings, mandates and life examples of Muhammed….it is Islamic doctrine itself, faithfully executed by pious Muslims, aided and abetted by the vast silent majority of so-called ‘good Muslims’.
It is ISLAMIC WORLD WAR people.
~ The Infidel Alliance
Interesting how those who want us to eat our arugula, cut out our salt, and get rid of our Happy Meals want to irradiate us using the full body scan. Now THAT’s good for you!
Today we have a choice of radiation or groping; if a stop is not put to this, what will be next? Since we are guilty until proven innocent, ladies, get ready to prove that your sanitaries do NOT contain explosives. “Step over here into our private facilities where we will do a rectal and vaginal exam.” Ridiculous you say? Ten years ago did you think you would be subjected to groping just to get on an airplane?
Contrary to what a TSA agent recently said, we didn’t give up any of our Constitutional rights when purchasing an airline ticket.
US verses Israeli security…
A perfect example of some folks living in the “real world” while others are playing a fantasy game….Everything is “theoretical” and “make work” here, from college professors to politicians, its all about the game, not about reality.
The TSA screeners are government union bums, they are there there to create a voting constituancy, and a source of union dues for campaign donation, while the “leadership” can show some stooges “working” at “something” to make it look like there is progress.
Nowhere in the whole machine does flight safety come into play. They KNOW these fools are less than useless, but the career “fantasy workers” at the top have never HAD to work in the real world…
Israeli Security specialists are top notch security because they are top notch at what they do…..Janet Skunkhead has never had a real job that didnt involve working the game to get advanced…
Her, or anyone in the American System of Government Service, ever having
had an actual PROFESSION, with actual DEFINEABLE REQUIREMENTS, and actual CONSEQUENCES should you not be able to perform?
HA!
Its all an image game with them.
They dont do Israeli style security because its beyond their skill set to know how, even if they were shown.
I hope we have finally hit the line in the sand. Even if the intent here is to collapse the airline industry in an attempt to gain power, which I doubt, so what. I for one would rather see the airlines go under and hope that it sets off an anger in the public that leads to an increased awareness of, anger at, and resolve to defeat the tyranny afoot, than to continue to be bullied by the powers that be.
Whatever the reason is that we must suffer this degradation — whether it be incompetence, extreme malice, or otherwise — surely our “betters” won’t lose sleep over our knuckling under. STOP FLYING. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
If this unthinkable outrage continues into the Christmas holidays, I predict that it will become a major issue, possibly bringing the airline industry to its financial knees. Like retailers, airlines count on this time of year to make up a large percentage of their profitable revenue per annum.
This stupidity will drive more people to private flying. Without any expectation of this kind of government-mandated criminal assault ever occurring during my lifetime I became a licensed pilot at an early age, adding commercial and instrument tickets along the way. Now 50 years later I am capable of flying my family wherever we need to go. There will be a big movement toward this kind of self-reliance among those who have the means to do so. I do not like the idea of my granddaughters being physically molested by someone–anyone. They will fly with their family.
This, and the three year old girl who got basically molested by a TSA goon because she didn’t want to hand over her teddy bear, all the while crying and screaming.
Also a captain with his 18 year old daughter overhears the TOS saying “heads up, got a cutie for you” as they are approaching security. You can read about it here…
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security/1147497-tso-saying-heads-up-got-cutie-you.html
An elderly man who got his pants pulled down in full view of all passing through security because of metal in his knee.
And yet experts say that all of this humiliation does nothing to make us more secure. The techniques of security for El Al is less invasive to innocent travelers and more effective in spotting criminals about to board. Do we use those techniques? No!
So if this isn’t really to make America safer, what’s the real objective to the peep-’n-grope show?
http://www.cartoonaday.com/tsa-body-scan-detectors-installed/
Just don’t fly. A great deal of business air travel is unnecessary in today’s instant communication age. Drive somewhere and enjoy the country.
If you object to Profiling, then don’t complain about what is happening now. Don’t take my picture, don’t ask me too many questions, don’t single me out to be searched because I look nervous or look like I just came from a drug party, don’t check me because a passenger just saw me doing something out of the ordinary. Well then people, get used to everyone being unconvinced because we are not allowed to inconvenience a few.
Everyone having to submit to either a full body scan or a pat down with a possible “random” crotch grope is not profiling.
Profiling would be to single out someone because of specific data about their trip or characteristics about them: one-way ticket, no luggage, coming from Pakistan having received your British passport in Belguim, name is on the no-fly list, member of AQ. You know, simple info like that.
Instead we come up with these insane policies. Now there is no profiling and everyone is inconvenienced which will lead to less travel. Profiling is what is needed, it is not used because of political correctness, but even worse CAIR is attempting to get special exemptions for Muslim Women to not go through either for Muslim women wearing Burka go carry on (how do you know that they are women?)
Nope I say that instead those people wearing burlap sacks that cover almost their entire body should be the first to be scanned and or groped, it is simply a ruse for muslims to be able to get on a plane with god knows what under that ridiculous garb.
If they do not like it then they don’t get on that flight and their should be a disclaimer on all tickets that state that by purchasing your ticket for a flight that you give up any right to a lawsuit in case you are screened further than other passengers for dress or behavior!
Sick, depraved and perverted.
U.S. government message to Americans and visiting tourists:
We own your bodies; and as the owners of your bodies, we have the right to expose your naked bodies; give you massive amounts of radiation, give you cancers and destroy your health. If you refuse our humiliating, degrading, health destroying body scanners, we will sexually assault you.
This has NOTHING to do with security. It’s all about power and control and destroying our health, basic human rights and our freedom. Ruling elites know the body scanners are useless:
“Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says
A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install “useless” imaging machines at airports across the country.
“I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,” Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada.”
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Full+body+scanners+waste+money+Israeli+expert+says/2941610/story.html
Don’t taze me, bro. Don’t touch my junk. Hey you woodchucks, stop chucking my wood.
This is some more Bush-era BS that Obama should have canned. If I have to pick my biggest peeve with Obama, it’s with his over-reliance on “advice” from current and ex-military/intel personnel with vested interests in providing “security theater” with no demonstrable benefits.
BitChie no! Not you too! “…biggest peeve…”? Has Mrs. Palin put a spell on you? Is the But Crack widening? Has the used and discarded feeling come to the surface to be expressed in actual criticism of… Mr. President? Oh no, really, don’t tell your Modern Liberal “friends”. They will pass out T-shirts with your image on them looking like a monkey.
So what might a lesser “peeve” be? Could it be that Mr. President is that easily hustled by “ex-military/intel personnel”, or other operators in the shadows? If there is that, then what else?
Go get that hotdog in the suburbs and cover it with mustard. Feel good.
Goldstein, well, you make the call.
Welcome!
To Mr. Lucky: Do you want another spanking or not? You were suppose to pick up some Roquefort, Merlot, and Nimki hours ago. Stop dawdling and get your soon-to-get-more-red butt over here now. Oh, and also don’t forget the celery.
The Liar is in desperation and rage mode. Breaking out the inner Wannabe Jihadist. As with -
Gays are to be used as fodder for the Modern Liberal vision of a better world.
Hey lookie ….
“To Mr. Lucky: Yo, don’t forget the KY or else you might not be Mr. Lucky.”
November 14, 2010 – 5:37 pm
Or simply use the stereotype for the expression of the personal bigotry of Cesspool thought. And be a Liar too! Hey lookie Goldstein sleazits Born Senseless Liar. Yeah, hey Liar. Lie.
Goldstein
“To Mr. Lucky: Do you want another spanking or not? You were suppose to pick up some Roquefort, Merlot, and Nimki hours ago.”
November 15, 2010 – 5:32 pm
Dissing gays comes to Modern Liberal with such ease. Mr. President promises, and then we have gays chaining themselves to the White House fence. What does Ms. Maddow think? It’s ok, as long as your side is killing for the Greater Good. Yezhov would be down. Gays, who cares. Next?
Welcome lookie Yo-Yo Goldstein Liar Whatever to the Hall of Funhouse Mirrors. And “lookie”, the Liar chain is unbroken. As determined by reading floating Cesspool matter, Persons Galore, the Bigot in the Cesspool, is in the “process” once again determining a dominate Personality. Wait a bit, it will materialize.
Where the hell is Born sleazits? Such an easy banishment. “Collar too tight”? Then again, the Kick Me sign riveted to is ass can be quite a cross to bear.
Born sleazits. Used and discarded. Much like Mr. President’s Hope and Change Corpse.
Whatever.
Hey, BC, do you think you could even once repudiate some bad Obama policies without the Bush-did-it-too nonsense? No one will ever take you seriously if you don’t. It is just so juvenile. Unless you are willing to chastise your own in unqualified fashion, you are simply a partisan jerk and unworthy of respesct.
Did the Bush administration start this ball rolling? Yes. Did Obama take it to the next level? Yes. Did he have to? No. Just because Bush did it to a lesser extent does not mean that it is at all excusable for Obama to do it.
Marc Malone wrote: “Hey, BC, do you think you could even once repudiate some bad Obama policies without the Bush-did-it-too nonsense? No one will ever take you seriously if you don’t. It is just so juvenile. Unless you are willing to chastise your own in unqualified fashion, you are simply a partisan jerk and unworthy of respect.
While I can sort of agree in principle with Jon Stewart wanting things to be less divisive in a turn the other cheek sort of way, I’m still none too pleased at all the insane crap Bush, his people, and his Republican buds, especially when they controlled Congress, got away with (much more than you would ever imagine, including essentially gutting the intel agencies in favor of well-connected private contractors), and all the crap that was heaped on Obama even before he took office. I kind of wish that Obama could undo everything Bush did in his 8 years, and including firing everyone who was hired. I would also have liked to had seen Pat Roberts, Orrin Hatch, and Christopher Bond at the least be brought up on ethics charges for obstructing the final “Phase II” release of the Senate investigation into pre-war intelligence until not only after the 2004 election, but actually until Democrats took control of the Senate.
Yeah, I know that this is all ancient, pre-1/20/09, water-under-the-bridge stuff that right wingers could care less about, but like any 8 yr bad relationship, the consequences will linger for quite some time, however much you want them to go away. And I also notice that you can’t express honest criticism, however modest, of Obama’s policies without right wingers jumping all over it with moronic I-told-you-so’s and even more moronic proclamations of how Obama lost all support and is now a lame duck (which completely ignores both Reagan’s and Clinton’s low mid-term poll numbers.)
In this particular case and as you said, things did get started under Bush and I’ll be darned to let that little bit pass without comment.
“I’ll be darned to let that little bit pass without comment.” “Double Dawg!”
Damn BitChie, did you flip Goldstein? Goldstein works for you now?
Quite a development in the Modern Liberal it Takes a Village. Really though, do you want that thing attached to you? That’s one nasty Cesspool with the Kick Me sign option.
Let’s see here, the requisite ” insane crap”, “Bush, his people”, “Republican buds”, (don’t smoke it!) “especially”…
Coupled with the unassailable “fact” that history was conceived by a certain Elders of Something class, 8 years ago -
“…stuff that right wingers could care less about, but like any 8 yr bad relationship…”
And the absolute dogma of Those who Disagree with But Crack are the dreaded “right wingers”. No exception. Not even a bit of that world class nuance that Modern Liberals so heartily semi-endorse. When it’s convenient.
And a check the mirror moment –
“And I also notice that you can’t express honest criticism, however modest…” Tears on My Pillow.
Sure you can BitChie. Mr. Malone, although not BitChie, is quite right. Did the Mr. President Used and Discarded realization with the 8 yr Devil Rule cause the planet to reverse its spin? Anyway, check your premises!
Goldstein is integrating into the But Crack Intellect, somewhat like Lev Bronstein with multiple personalities. Don’t cross your eyes!
Mr. Lucky, you left your poopy pants on the bathroom floor again. What did I tell you would happen the next time you did that? And who’s your cute sounding “just passing through” friend — can you bring him home for dinner?
I notice that you can’t express honest criticism, however modest, of Obama’s policies without absolving him of responsibility by injecting moronic BDS nonsense into your comment.
Quite literally, you whine, just like Obama does, about how tough a job he has every time a hard decision needs to be made. Either Obama is as smart as his reflexive defenders say he is or he hasn’t a clue as his far more reflective critics say.
If the first, the wicked smart Obama should have chosen a better head of DHS and if that choice went off track, as it might for any executive no matter how competent, rein her in or replace her. If the second, then we all suffer the consequences of his chosen head of DHS’ clueless inability to see this coming, her obstinate refusal to correct it when it arrived, and his executive fecklessness in not controlling his subordinates
The evidence weighs in overwhelmingly in the second column. Trying to qualify that by making the inane excuse that this administration’s conduct based on choices they are completely in control of and can modify at will is compelled by the prior administration choices is an asinine, sophomoric argument.
You are the most hypocritical commenter on PJM. And your constant and inevitable reduction of every challenge that Obama cannot meet to the effects of the BDS that still drives you, long rejected as nonsensical maundering outside a coterie of biddable fools, earns you the accolade of being one of the more stupid commenters also.
BitChie, a new theme song is in order –
It’s my party, and I’ll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you…
Goldstein knows this tune too.
Dose anyone care to venture a guess as to how long it will be before we start hearing stories about TSA agent raping or stocking passengers and the so called accidental hiring of sex offenders as screeners. I give it one month from today. It would be a different story if members of congress and the old dike Janet herself had to go thru these air port check points
Or the TSA agent who gets busted for child pornography who just happens to have patted down kids. It’ll happen.
This is where we see if America is “Land of the Free, Home of the Brave” …. or a bunch of knee-bending, butt kissing, serfs. Either the People END the TSA and it’s “Continuing Criminal Enterprise”, by refusing to fly, or America is DOA.
Because muslims complain that singling them out for enhanced inspection is unfair, we must all, in deference to them, undergo enhanced inspection. No racial profiling for muslims, so now Everyone is profiled. Insane and very insulting by muslims and Western governments. All this stems from, beginning under Bush and becoming worse in recent years, to the West’s refusal to name our enemy: totalitarian islam.
Will the West ever gain the will to push back?
The groping will continue until airlines and passengers say enough is enough. But I think everyone is very afraid of crossing this administration and its heavy handed tactics. I’ve traveled extensively and nowhere have I been treated the way TSA agents treat everyday American citizens. They use the ‘P’ word – profiling. Like if a young man sans luggage is traveling with a passport from the Middle east or bearing a stamp from, say, Pakistan or Yemen, they would surely be pulled aside and scrutinized carefully. In the same line, the grandma (like me), the nun and the three-year old would pass through unmolested. But not here in the US. What ever to common sense? And can’t we find another place at the public trough, er, high paying government position for Janet Incompetento.
What comes first, the airlines go bankrupt, the government backs down, or the first party to seize on repealing this atrocity wins big in 2012?
Go ahead, ask TSA if this is true:
The freight in the hold of passenger aircraft is not scanned.
Checked-in luggage may or may not be scanned, passengers are groped or bombarded with radiation, carry-on luggage is searched out-of-view, parents are separated from their children when elevated searches are demanded, and threat of jail or lawsuits with $10,000 penalties abound.
Meanwhile unscanned commercial freight is loaded into the belly of the aircraft because the freight company is left to perform whatever level of security they choose (meaning next to none). Not to mention privatized catering and cleaning services, who do their own thorough? background checks of employees who then have unmonitored access to the aircraft.
Why does anyone submit to this violation of their fundamental rights? Or worse, subject children to groping that traumatizes them or desensitizes them to pedophiles? DO NOT FLY AND TELL THEM WHY!
I use to fly 3 – 4 times a year to marathon’s. I’ll be driving to all of them now. Entropy in hell will reverse before I’ll allow my wife or myself to be virtually or physically molested.
Is it just me or does it seem weird to anyone else that the latest threat that was just barely stopped happened with mailed packages in the cargo portion of a plane but now, suddenly, nuns and 3-year-olds are being frisked like suspected panty bombers?
What’s up with that? I expected that TSA to counter with some sort of ban against packages or refuse to let toner cartridges on the plane. Frisking passengers? Hmmm.
It’s hard to understand how you can be born and raised in America following all of the rules of our society and be subjected to groping invasive pictures and treated like a common criminal to travel in your own country. I am so glad I don’t have to fly on business any more. I think we will be planning local trips by car. of course the people imposing this crap on us probably fly on private jets or get to pass through security without the humiliation and hassle.
Becuase I purchase an airplane ticket they have the right to photo me and touch me as they please?
Dude.
This is a dream job for a pervert.
Here’s a quesion: What is the likelihood that this will result in a class action lawsuit when its discovered that the pictures are being misused, or that women and kids are having post tramatic distress from the groping?
And result in a payout that the taxpayers will have to fund?
(you may laugh about the post-trama thing, but I was forced to go throught the scanner machine last year. My husband didn’t think it was a big deal – but I still feel kind of ill when I think of some idiot airport guy looking at a picture of me without clothing.)
Good point about the PTS (post traumatic stress); for those who’ve been molested or raped, an event like this can definitely trigger memories / feelings of something they’ve already experienced, or it will be THE trauma that causes them to have PTS. Think about the 3 year old who was crying / screaming “Stop touching me!” during her “pat down”. Do you think she’ll get on an airplane anytime soon? I don’t think so. And I doubt her parents will want to put her thru that again. I hope she was on the return trip when she was filmed.
Even if women and children fly right now…. my guess is that there will be some that won’t fly again because of the trauma it triggers.
I’m planning a trip out of the country later next year with my teenage daughter, but because of this issue, I haven’t bought the airline tickets. We won’t go if this issue isn’t resolved.
Time to take to the roads again people. See the countryside….get all those Mom & Pop BATES Motels into the Black again.
Let the airlines go straight to hell….all they know is the bottom line and they know they’re crossing the line. Besides nickle dimin’ us to death now instead of providing a pleasant means of travel….flying has become a degrading, insulting, demeaning nightmare…all foisted upon us by middle east savages whose last contribution to mankind wasn’t the winged aircraft.
While your “drive instead of flying” proposal is certainly a reasonable option in some cases, I’m just curious how you would get to Europe or Asia if you needed to get there?
I’m not sure if passenger ships still operate between the continents, even assuming you can spare the time to travel that way….
i just can’t get my head around the logic of this whole situation.
we must sacrifice our precious freedoms so people won’t blow us up in the air.
so we leave the southern border wide open so our enemies can easily cross and while living here, probably on our dime, find other ways to kill us? how many bombs have waltzed across that border?
i just don’t get it.
Actually, you do get it. You point out with your questions the illogic of the policies of our administration.
What is up is down, what is black is white, what is wrong is right with this bunch.
Israeli security airport security measures are successful because of the size of the nation and its single international airport. In order for us to adopt their proven measures several things must happen.
We need to identify and eliminate from airport scrutiny 300,000,000+ patriotic, loyal citizens and legal alien guests that do not pose a security risk. To do so, we need to systematically determine all of us that are not terrorists and are unwilling to aid and abet them. All of us should be issued forgery proof ID that exempts us from all of the security measures except scanning of our checked baggage and carry-on items. We should also be required to pass a bomb sniffing dog that is stationed at every security turnstile.
Every naturalized citizen and legal alien from Muslim nations should be eligible for the same ID after submitting to a security check and providing information and data establishing that they are not terrorists or sympathetic to Islamist causes.
We must dramatically revise our policies regarding issuance of entry visas so that everyone is scrutinized to determine that they are not terrorists, criminals or otherwise dangerous. Everyone that departs from or arrives at one of our international airports must known, have all baggage examined and cleared.
Finally, we must our all of our boarders so that no one gains entry without our knowledge and permission.
These changes reduce the number of travelers have to be interrogated and searched to manageable levels. Most of the TSA employees that are currently involved in airport security are not competent to perform under the revised procedures mentioned above. Worse, they lack the motivation to perform at the level required to protect us from further terrorist attacks.
Most of todays point of contact can be handled face to face via phone, internet and even conference style. Faxing and Fed Ex are as quick or quicker than airplanes. Their is little reason to be groped and it is a whole lot cheaper too.
What we need is a class action lawsuit against the government and the airlines for gross neglect by not profiling the suspects. Am I not profiled by being subjected to groping? They have got things backward.
And the congress should not exclude themselves from being groped and peeped at. If you can make the rule, you had better be prepared to live with them. Do they think themselves above peeping and groping? But we aren’t.
of course the government parasites don’t feel they should go through this crap,after all they are better than us.after all the nightly news tells them so.
It appears that everyone is waiting for someone else to start it. For me? No problem at all! I have shot and killed better men in Viet Nam than these turds could ever hope to be….so if they insist on patting me down…woman or man…I will warn them once…and then launch on their face with my fist as hard as I possibly can….and the next one who is stupid enough to intervene…until I get knocked silly or tased into a coma…I won’t have anyone touching me…anywhere.
Why you may ask? Because the last time I was removing my shoes and having my carry on spread around the table because the mindless moron reading the screen thought my shaver looked like an AK-47….while that was happening…a family of mooselimbs three kids…burkah dressed mother…two other similarly clad females…(maybe, maybe not) and the patriarch walked through…that’s right. Walked through while me and a middle aged lady were being searched for claymore mines and anthrax.
When I asked why…and I did…I was told to shut my mouth, or I would be arrested for “resisting”. So….with that in mind…I may just purchase a one way ticket…carry no luggage…and prepare to spend a couple of weeks in jail….and laugh while my knuckles heal. F8ck them all…
“…to the point that it’s tempting to put on the conspiracy theory hat and wonder in whispers whether that’s part of the game plan…”
I think it’s an element of that leftist Fifty Year Plot to publish a monstrous 3-volume tome titled in glittering gilt as The Rise and Fall of the American Experiment.
A) Obamacare pushes countless middle-aged doctors into early retirement because they don’t wish to halve their Medicare pittance for the privilege of inspecting elderly bosoms, bottoms, and Viagra hopefuls.
B) The TSA, having succeeded in bringing the airlines to heel by turning their customers into non-flyers, generously makes a deal with airline CEOs and morose physicians to both bring back the flyers and bypass Medicare: well-paid licensed physicians alone will do the physically invasive exams.
C) The flying public will be happy to submit to gynecological and proctological exams for the price of an airborne bus-seat, though there’ll always be someone to gripe about half a dozen mammograms a year (preventing potentially explosive artificial 44 DDs from making it aboard), but then, some people will complain about everything.
D) The medical profession will then be that much more beneath the government’s thumb, and check-ups at no extra cost will fulfill a good portion of Obamacare, luring in the crowds with bread and circuses. Well, circuses, anyway.
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So don’t forget to add another hour to your arrival time at the airport – and make sure you’re wearing clean underwear.
an indy film redux of planes, trains, and automobiles done obama style is in order
some poor sap starts off a trip getting irradiated then man handled, poor sucker ditches plane idea, goes for amtrack where train derails then has to ride out rest of journey in a chevy dolt that conks out every 40 miles
Dear Mr Wheat:
There is a lot to complain about with the airlines, but this is not one of them. They don’t want this intrusion any more than we do.
So you say. Fine…I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. I’d say then that the airlines and their management are derelict in their duties to their shareholders, the flying public and not providing the service we expect and contract for.
The airlines need to scream…loud and clear ( 5X5 ) that this is an interference of commerce that will no longer be tolerated. And demand proof that any of these asinine “security” measures can ever expect to work. When those of an ethnicity we should be patting down, and those who caused this grief and madness….are exempted due to insane, suicidal PC “policies”.
But they could do something about it.They chose not to,so the consequences are their own fault. I personally have stopped flying.
Is someone going to stop them?
Is everyone afraid of them?
The “consent of the governed” doesn’t seem to be a recognizable concept in this country these days, does it?
These thugs are despicable. And all their women are ugly.
Maybe a starting point would simply to be begin saying, out loud, at least once a day, to somebody…..somewhere, “I think all Muslims should be searched before boarding any plane in the U.S.”
Let’s just start saying it, and keep saying it.
Either that or we all start wearing burkas and towels on our heads.
It is amazing that in a country with a judiciary that protects all sorts of criminals’ privacy and places hurdles in the way of law enforcement and with a policy toward illegal immigrants that their privacy can’t be invaded by requiring them to provide legal identification that somehow the TSA has the right either to look at naked images of passengers or do a criminal pat-down. I had one once at the Edinburgh airport for no particularly good reason (I was on a business trip for my employer, a multi-national investment bank) and it is a humiliating experience. I suppose that if it really was the only way to prevent a terrorist attack, it might be worth it. But as others have pointed out, human intelligence (something sorely lacking in the Obama Administration) is far more effective, as the Israelis have proved. And I’ve been through Ben Gurion security multiple times, and the Israeli system is targeted and therefore effective.
Easy solution. Have *all* pat-downs for guys performed by out-of-work fashion models and pat-downs for women done by Chippendale’s guys.
I read over at jihad watch that CAIR council for American Islamic Relations issued a statement to muslim women that they should not be submitting to full body patdowns. They are to be patted down around their neck and head and that’s it. As they would find the more full body pat down invasive and they are into modesty. Unlike us whores in the West who are gonna just love this whole thing. I then read over at CNS that Janet Napolitano was asked point blank if muslim women would also be subjected to the pat downs like everyone else and she refused to answer the question. Can this be true? Has anyone else heard this from a credible source? Is it true that muslim women won’t be subjected to this crap because they will find it offensive? Can this be at all true? Surely not. I can’t imagine them getting preferential treatment over this.
I saw that CAIR issued that statement. If Napolitano decides to waive screenings for Muslim women, that would be the ultimate insanity. Would she still subject Catholic nuns, Orthodox Jewish women, Amish, four-year-olds etc to the full body treatment? Probably, because that wouldn’t be profiling!! Whereas screening Muslim women WOULD be profiling and therefore WRONG.
Like many of the readers above, I stopped flying in 2007. I’d had enough. If I need to go somewhere long distance, I’ll drive. I have stopped flying for two reasons: I’m not guilty, so, I don’t need to be groped, scanned like a bar code, and treated like a piece of meat by my moral and intellectual inferiors. The latest TSA “enhanced” groping and scanning rules are vicious, pointless, and intended to be humiliating and “conditioning” so that Americans grow used to them – just as they have grown used to being examined by the IRS, FDA and DEA.
Napolitano and Company know this. Aside from giving carte blanche to the perverts and pedophiles in the TSA a dream job of feeling up attractive women (or men) and availing themselves to an endless stream of wacko porn in a dark room, the TSA from the beginning has played the role of extortionist and hostage-taker: You want to see your relatives, seal of business deal, get to school, take your kids to Disneyland? You can’t, unless you surrender your liberty, your dignity, and your money. It’s for your “own good.” I think the Mafia called it a “protection racket.” The TSA and even the DHS have proven their utter worthlessness as “security.”
But, to governments with a taste of the police state, the simplest solution is not an option. We can’t profile Muslims. That would be “discriminatory.”
I have an idea that would put the TSA and Napolitano in the headlines even better: Travelers should strip all the way down and go completely naked while standing in line. Call it federally mandated, stationery streaking. Now, how could the TSA object to such enthusiasm? The next best solution is to take baseball bats to the scanning machines and smash the hell out of them, and perhaps counter-grope the gropers and probers. Don’t offer to return the favor, just begin feeling them up, and perhaps even hug them. I guarantee there would be loud and virulent objections by TSA personnel. If these cretins won’t listen to reason, give them doses of their own medicine.
I chose to go through the scanner…big mistake.
My wallet was taken from me by a TSA agent and
held out of my sight during the scan. As someone
who has personally experienced identity theft,
this was totally unacceptable. I trust the TSA
slightly less than I trust Al Queda. It will be
a happy day for America when bulldyke Janet is
replaced by a competent, patriotic individual.
I’m sick of Janet Napps insulting my intelligence. The scanners can’t save images? Then how do you plan to present evidence to prove that you discovered a weapon through the scanner, and therefore justified more serious investigation? Because if you can’t prove it, it didn’t happen, and you were profiling.
So, either she’s a complete idiot and hasn’t thought of this, or she doesn’t care if terrorists who tried to bring a weapon on board an airplane can’t be tried, or she’s lying to the American public.
There is a solution to this madness, but it has rotted in Congress for years. At its root, the problem is an effective response to war tactics. Whether we like in or not, there is a small cabal of terrorists in the world who want to kill us, want as many Americans as possible to die. To defend us, we have opted for people whose mind set, and talents are wholly incapable to the task. History is full of disasters due to lousy leaders. It is not in their personality to win a war.
The solution to a terrorist anywhere, on a plane, or on the ground, is a bullet in his brain. Congress has refused to pass authorization to permit sworn police officers, trained in urban combat, to carry their weapons on planes in domestic flights. This population is a hundred fold larger than air marshals. Instead Congress has authorized an elephantine bureaucracy that does not work; every terrorist aboard a plane has been stopped by civilians, not TSA. After great resistance, Congress established a program to permit pilots to be armed, and intentionally made it so difficult that few participated. With Israeli policies that target terrorist characteristics, and this, the TSA would function at a fraction of the cost of their empire, with a few highly skilled experts.
This is the key. Janet Napolitano simply seeks organizational power. It is in her interests that an Irish nun be treated identically to a young man from Yemen. Political appointees, like her, get other people killed. This slaughter, and insanity, will continue until we get a better set of leaders, or the air lines no longer exist.
It is in her interests that an Irish nun be treated identically to a young man from Yemen.
The surreal aspect of this whole situation is that, according to several accounts I have seen, the Irish nun gets the full body scan and/or the invasive pat-down while the young man from Yemen doesn’t get inspected at all. For instance, see MrMossberg’s account at #41.
Where has America gone, and exactly when did it leave?
When the populace allowed “Political Correctness”,/b> to be allowed in colleges then grade schools and finally at all levels of government as well as “Affirmative Action” which is discrimination of anyone other than blacks or women or other selected minorities like gays or transvestites!
Only gays welcome the pat downs by the TSA. Shouldn’t they have to pay a little extra for the thrill?
I can’t wait until some TSA wonk grabs the wrong man’s equipment (or his wife’s) and he simply kicks their butt. I mean literally, right there in the airport in front of everybody (perhaps to a cheering crowd) absolutely hands the jack-off his head with a major league USMC ass-whuppin’.
In fact, I would pay good money to see it. I’d even pay US dollars.
When I read Napolitano’s comments, I was seething: “It’s all about security,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said. “It’s all about everybody recognizing their role.”
Recognizing their role??!!! Yes – our role (according to this dingbat) is to passively stand as our bodies are either exposed to TSA personnel using a scanner that TSA assures us will not result in radiation overexposure, or allow them to molest us by groping our privates. Honestly, when do we say ENOUGH ALREADY!!! Time for Napolitano, Holder, Salazar, Chu, etc. to join the burgeoning ranks of the unemployed.
where is the ACLU when we need them?
This sounds like a perfect setup for one of their cases that “make a point”, kind of like the little girl in CA whose dad sued because she had to say the pledge to the flag.
Find somebody like #56 above mentions, run them through the steps, get them arrested, then go to court and get some class action going.
I know the ACLU would never do it, but maybe the Rutherford Institute or some other conservative legal group would take this on.
The ACLU is more concerned with the privacy rights of illegal (oops, undocumented) aliens and people whose conversations with foreign jihadis were eavesdropped on the Bush Administration. Let’s see what then-Senator Obama had to say about the Patriot Act: “Government has decided to go on a fishing expedition through every personal record or private document — through library books they’ve read and phone calls they’ve made…We don’t have to settle for a Patriot Act that sacrifices our liberties or our safety — we can have one that secures both.” Personally, I’d rather have the government go on a fishing expedition through the library books I’ve read and phone calls I’ve made because both seem far less of an invasion of personal privacy than to radiating me, reviewing nude picture of me or groping me at the airport. I’d also rather be subjected to Israeli-style questioning than the invasion of my personal space. Hard to believe, huh?
You Americans must get the new house to pass a law dertermining the rules of engagement. Don’t let them touch you,don’t flyu,and in a fortnight the airlines will be begging you to come back without a scan.You Americans really have got yourselves into a ditch when you start to allow the gov to tell you that they “WILL TOUCH YOU”. You really voted for a great President,didn’t you.?? Not all is lost ,BUT you must not be afraid of offending someone that scares you.It is NORMAL to feel scared of someone.That is usually the body’s protection response,and you had better listen to it.Get rid of the ‘great imposer’,and vote for the moral highground.Don’t give in to the Liberal thought that if you treat a person nice,he won’t cut your throat.(literally).God Bless and Keep Safe.
Who said Profiling is illegal. Everybody in the whole world does it.How do marketing firms know where to build a “K” Mart. Thats right!!!! They profile the community through their shopping habits,through those reward cards that do nothing but keep a record of who you are,where you shop,how much.how often.where you live,family makeup,etc etc. Profiling is a tool,Not an invasion of privacy or else marketing would be banned.Stop being stupid and stand up for your rights.!!!!!!!
PROFILING! PROFILING! PROFILING! Good grief people when are we going to get a grip on reality and do the right thing? These PC nutballs are happy to inconvenience the traveling public just so those responsible for all this terror and idiocy get to laugh themselves silly at our government and all us sheep. Well, I won’t do it.
Is there a prosecutor somewhere with the kahunas to bring child porn charges against some TSA agents?
If kids are getting the pat down, I hope the Obama kids are not exempt.
Dear TSA Screener:
If you see you break the law, I will personally conduct a citizen’s arrest and I will take you directly to a magistrate to be arraigned. That cannot be construed as a threat, by the way, because I have the right to do that. I prefer to do my own arrests instead of waiting for the police, and I prefer to deliver the perps directly to the magistrate myself instead of putting them in police custody because I don’t wish to take on the liability for any mistreatment by the police.
And it’s your problem to figure out exactly how much you can grope before crossing the line into lawbreaking (please take into account conflicting and overlapping state and federal laws, regulations and executive orders, and don’t forget city and county ordinances.) But, without giving you “legal advice,” I can help you out a little.
Doubtless you are aware of that the laws against sexual assault require an element of “intent to sexually arouse” yourself. Intent can be deduced from observations. To help ensure that the law is being complied with, I’m going to monitor your level of sexual arousal.
While you’re groping me or my kid, I’m going to monitor your genitals for signs of arousal, so I can determine whether you have an intent to sexually arouse yourself while you’re doing the groping.
So I’ll just wrap my hand around your penis while you’re groping me or my kid and if I feel any hint of an erection (or in the case of a female screener, I’ll stick my nose in your crotch and if I smell any vaginal secretions), I will arrest you and have you arraigned.
That’s not sexual assault on my part, by the way, because of my intent and purpose, which I have clearly stated. I’m just ensuring compliance with the law.
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Dear TSA Screener:
I want to put you on notice and give you fair warning. I’m a sexual assault survivor, and if you trigger any bad memories while you’re groping me or my kid, I’m likely to fly into an insane rage and break your nose. If you try to sue me for damages, too bad for you, because you knowingly assumed the risk. If you try to have me prosecuted, it’s temporary insanity, and self-defense, under the circumstances.