TSA’s Blue Meanies Strike Again
By now most of America has heard or read of the six-year-old girl frisked and searched by TSA’s blue-clad goons at New Orleans’ airport. The girl’s parents, Dr. Todd and Selena Drexel, were interviewed on Fox News Channel this morning by Gretchen Carlson.
Carlson’s interview — good mother that she undoubtedly is, and coming during the morning period when networks assume mostly women are watching — focused like a laser beam on the mental anguish this little girl experienced. Mesdames Carlson and Drexel commiserated, understandably so, on how this assault in the name of airport and airline security contradicted everything young children are told about strangers touching them, and how the Drexel girl cried afterward.
But at the risk of appearing insensitive (perhaps congenital with me, as my friends have noted — or else stemming from the fact that my children are both boys): Is a six-year-old’s emotional state really the key issue here? Probably not. Dr. and Mrs. Drexel noted that when they asked the Blue Meanies (my phrase, not the Drexels’) why their daughter was being treated so suspiciously, they were not given an answer. At least one journalist who covers national security argued that the TSA was acting rationally, since “it’s not beyond al Qaeda to use kids.”
Well. It’s true that those who motivate and employ suicide bombers have, in recent years, significantly lowered the minimum age to start work. But heretofore all such prepubescent projectiles have been Muslim and male! Recruited by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, “the black-turbaned recruits, typically 12 or 13 but some as young as 7, recite Koran verses” until after breakfast, when they learn how to conduct “vehicle borne suicide attacks.”
Maybe they thought she was the child of a 2nd amendment supporter, or a veteran, or a Tea Partier, or a pro-life supporter, or a Christian.
Don’t put up with this unconstitutional garbage! It’s all worthless security theater that does nothing to keep you “safe”. Boycott Flying ENTIRELY until sanity returns! Please join us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Flying/126801010710392
I am with you: Boycott flying until sanity (or a new regime) takes its rightful place in our world. We teach our children not to let any stranger, anyone other than your parents or a doctor, touch your body parts. And then have to stand helplessly by while a stranger IN UNIFORM, YET touches them obscenely. I am afraid I could not have kept my cool had that been my child. Mama, Papa and baby would all three be in jail I suppose, having committed the sin of insisting on our constitutional rights as Americans. God bless America, the only free nation in this insane world.
TSA has not caught one terrorist. They do molest Grandmas, old Veterans, and children.
Al Qaeda has won.
Uneducated, minimum wage TSA workers are patting down little white girls.
The Bush/Obama era has been a complete disaster for America.
Oh, come on.
Pedophiles need to have jobs too.
Where else are they going to be able to get paid to watch pron and fell up little kids?
Curious, Israeli security personnel don’t see a reason to feel up little kids. Heck, they don’t even make me take off my shoes! TSA officials make regular trips to see how Israel does security, only to tell themselves, “Can’t do that. We don’t profile.” But since they’re not returning with a better understanding of real security (as distinct from security theater), they should just call these trips junkets.
You might want to fix this: “A nine-year-old little girl who cried after her humiliating and frightening ordeal.” As the body of the article correctly notes, she was six (not nine) years old. Worse? I don’t know; it’s pretty bad either way.
I just got back from Europe. They have security at airports but seem to be civilized about it. Raymond in DC is right. Did not take off my shoes either.
By the way, I went thru a full body scanner. I had a chance to observe the screen as others were scanned. Unless they had a special set up just for me what I saw did not match the horror stories published earlier. The image did indeed catch things but was in no way pornographic.
How would you feel about full body scanning if you had a colostomy bag? It would show, and everyone in the immediate area would know. Also the dim-witted TSA minimum wage probers would assume it is a new means of plastic explosives and would haul me into a room and pull it off, as they did the man with the urine ostomy, spilling it all over him. He had a letter from his doctor, but they ignored that. The same if I submitted to probing.
My flying days are over, and I’m just as glad. The prices they are charging today for you and for even a tiny carry on are too much even without the probing and pat downs when you are entirely innocent. We did not used to have to prove we are innocent, remember?
For crying out loud, learn from Alinsky. Personalize, isolate, etc.
Ostracism still works. If these TSA goons were to find “Warning – Supected Child Molester” posters with THEIR pictures taped to power poles throughout their neighbourhoods, or be confronted every day by people refusing to speak to them at the grocery store, or by parents telling them NOT to go anywhere near playgrounds if they know what’s good for them, or by the prospect of having to explain to their own children why the don’t have friends any more, I suspect that their “I’m only doing my job” attitude would change in a big hurry.
Why did the parents deliberately subject this child to this treatment? Why is the “convenience” of flying be more important than protecting their child? They knew this might happen and they decided to fly anyhow. I haven’t flown in a number of years and my children and I love the road trip. Its a big part of the fun. Think about it. Is a parent’s convenience any excuse to not spend time with their child?
It’s the parents’ fault the government violates their child?
No. But if I know that the system into which I’m going to walk involves a high expectation of a child in my care being violated, I will choose not to go there. I can’t see that it improves the stupidity we’re facing if we relieve the parents of all responsibility here…..that’s just the back side of turning everything over to the government. They put her in the situation. That’s a fact. The government is being run by thugs. That’s also a fact. The parents might want to deal with the one they presently have control over–yet.
Actually yes, if I see this happening with my daughter I immediately step in. America has laws:
A six year old witness to a murder may not be questioned when the parents are not there.
Doctors need parents permission (with a very few exceptions) before treating children.
Standing by and allowing someone to grope your sic-year-old daughter so that you may fly is pimping pure.
They should have insisted that a female TSA officer go with them into a separate room where they could have stripped and redressed their daughter quickly without any grouping.
If the TSA refuse to do this SUE THEM!
It could be that they believed there was a minimum age that could be subjected to the search- orginally it was published that under 12 was exempt- this might have very well been wishful thinking, or the policy got changed, but regardless, it has not been widely publicized (till now) that very young children could, and would, be patted down.
One of those morning shows repeated a statement from the TSA headquarters, that the agent would not be punished because they were working within the guidelines. Does “just following orders” remind anyone of anything?
The TSA will never catch anyone who is not a plant or unreasonably incoherent. Their job is to scare the public at union wages.
One of the disturing and re-occuring themes from this event come from those who say it is necessary, so that their plane won’t go down in flames. I think this is an anti-American attitude. These will sacrifice anything for safety and respond dismissively to those who simply clam things should be done differently. Profiling and common sense are needed but the bottom line is that we are responsible for our own safety. This has worked well on several occasions and I look forward to the opportunity to beat the snot out of the Muzzie sitting next to me who fiddles with his shoes. If folks can’t stick up for their own welfare I say, don’t fly. The limp wristed amoung us are responsible for the goons, dopes and perverts who fondle our children.
Is no one ever going to comment on my reference to corbomite?!
Great reference to Captain Kirk, who was always resourceful & clever in outsmarting his opponents!
I got a chuckle out of your reference to “The Corbomite Manuver”. It’s one of the best original series episodes.
“Not chess, Spock–poker.”–Kirk
This is tranya. I hope you relish it as much as I.
“A new study by the US Institute for Peace (USIP) of polling data from fourteen different Muslim countries finds that support for a role for Islam in politics strongly correlates with more likely support for terrorism.”
My 84 year old mother wants to know where she can get paid for coming to the same conclusion while peeling potatoes in 2003 before sitting down and watching a re-run of “BJ and the Bear”.
But, wait… she could be a midget convert! (Yes, TSA would pay someone– a ludicrously expensive consultant, most likely– for that justification.)
this is not “pat down”, this is “obamagrope”, or “freedom fondling”.
it’s important to keep the terminology straight.
I’m glad the TSA is keeping us safe by going after these people.
http://mistercaps.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/little-jihadist/
It would be interesting to know just who it is, that wants to promote America as the stupidist, most moronic country in the world?
It is a daily picture fest of children being molested by American adults.
There is not only the idea of someone rubbing America’s nose in the dirt, but suggests many other ideas; like bad American parents, stupid sheep-like obedience, incompetance at massive levels……etc.
Only America’s enemy would do something like this and laugh to themselves while pulling it off.
Waterwillows, I will give you three guesses who it is who wants to promote America as the “stupidist, most moronic country in the world.”
And they all start with “Obama.”
“The Drexels would seem to be either Christian or Jewish (they’re certainly not Muslim)”
Really? How you do know that? More, importantly, how would the TSA screener know that? They may not have “Muslim sounding” names, and they may have been born in America, but they could still be Muslim.
“But heretofore all such prepubescent projectiles have been Muslim and male!” OK. No terrorist ever hid a bomb in blue and pink striped suitcase. Can we automatically let blue and pink suitcases through security without any screening?
I am no fan of the TSA, but what is the alternative in this case? If there is a policy that says “No children will ever be subject to a patdown” doesn’t that just announce that hiding a bomb with a child has a high probability of success?
TSA would not dare to touch a child who wears muslim garb (or whose parents wear muslim garb).
No, they wouldn’t have dared to touch a kid in Islamic garb.
Also, please remember—while the TSA is wasting time checking out little boys, little girls, grannies, military men, etc., they aren’t paying attention to any baggage handlers who might be acting suspiciously, or anything else going on in the airport that might need attention. Nup, nup, nup, they’re saving us from little girls.
Yah, it’s all about keeping us safe.
B.S.
The alternative, Paul, is that we profile airline passengers, the way Israel does, so we can have a fairly good idea of who’se Moslem and who’se not, not matter how they’re dressed, or what they’re calling themselves.
Also, in a case where it’s suspected that a kid is being used to carry explosives. . . the worst thing you could do is pull them aside and start examining them oh-so-slowly and thoroughly (alarming their adult handlers and giving them plenty of time to detonate the bomb right then and there, and win their 72 whatevers.)
In a case where a kid’s being used to carry explosives, focus on the adults around them (or the one hanging around the periphery, maybe with a cell phone, watching them)than the kid. (After the adults have been killed/taken into custody, then you get the bomb squad to carefully disarm the kid—away from the crowds in the airport itself.)
But as in Vegas, we’re not allowed to cheat by, you know, *THINKING* about what we are doing.
That would be hateful or something.
The alternative is PROFILING. How hard is it to understand? The Israelis have been doing it for over 40 years. It works. The police do it when they are examining the facts of a case when the perpetrator is unknown.
Political correctness has taken this to the level of the absurd. And do you really think a little Caucasian girl would be the implement of destruction? How many cases of Caucasian little girls engaging in jihad have there been? How about young muslim males between the ages of 17-30?
And for the muslims, the act of jihad is deeply personal, said to benefit the martyr. What do the muslims have to offer a Caucasian six-year-old girl to make her sacrifice her life as a martyr?
Your lack of critical thinking, Paul is beyond the pale. Hamburg may be a really “enlightened” city, but tell me how all that diverse society thing is going for you?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2349161.stm
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/20/world/fg-hamburg20
Note the two articles are written by uber-left publications to basically claim their problems are due to “islamaphobia” when in reality, where have the muslims been when it comes time to denounce terrorism? Their community leaders are curiously silent. In fact, their lack of condemnation for the actions of their religious fellows seems to indicate support to make the world a muslim world.
Also, they left their homeland why? To get away from oppression and servitiude? Yet they practice Sharia law wherever they move to. Why is that?
Paul you are voluntarily ignorant which is the worst kind of foolishness.
Paul from Hamburg,
I used logic and common sense. Dr. Drexel went to med school in Iowa, neither of them wears Islamic (or any other non-traditionally-American) garb, they have standard-issue American accents, and their last name is “Drexel.” And you’re missing my points: approval of profiling, as politically-incorrect as that might be; and that NO NON-MUSLIM CHILD SUICIDE BOMBER HAS EVER BEEN EMPLOYED! Ergo, your concern about a young, non-Muslim, American girl being a bomb delivery system is just silly–as I believe I pointed out in the article. Did you actually read it all?
Logic? Really? You said “they are certainly not Muslim”. There is nothing “certain” about it. It may be unlikely that they are Muslim, but guess what, converts to Islam might still retain their former, non-Islamic names. Also, and this may come as a surprise, American converts to Islam don’t magically develop new accents.
Do I actually think that this child was a terrorist threat? Of course not. I am just trying to suggest that maybe the whole “The TSA is bunch of perverts” theme is being way, way overplayed.
Paul, it’s important to understand that within our normal American culture, this kind of treatment and hysteria is NOT how we live. We are a free society where we have rights and civil liberties that are protected by our constitution, and these kinds of situations are violations of our freedom. If we let it continue, then we are ignorant fools and we will see more and more instances like these because we did not challenge these violations of our personal freedoms. We do not have to put up with it, for any reason.
You folks miss the most obvious point of screening everyone. Any group that is not screened has just become a target for the bad guys. One of their most common operations is taking hostages. In this situation a bad guy would take someone hostage and threaten them with death to compel someone else to do something that they would not ordinarily do, smuggle something in past security. It is not reasonable to believe that a parent would not do anything a bad guy asked if they thought it would result in the safe return of their child. By screening everyone that attempts to access the sterile area of an airport no group is then turned into a target for the bad guys that want to bypass the security features of our country.
For all of you folks that think the Europeans are so good at this just remember the guy with the explosives in his underwear came from Europe and went through their security.
As to the little girl in this instance pat downs are done to resolve an alarm at the walk through metal detector or some other irregularity if a whole body imaging device is used. So this child was dressed in such a way as to set off a metal detector or had items hidden under her clothing. Most people being aware of this do not wear lots of metal when flying, to do otherwise is rather stupid.
And yet, muslims are treated with kid gloves. I have no references except my own eyes. I see it at the airport all the time. White, aged man gets pulled aside while an entire family of hijab-clad and sandal-wearing middle-easterners go right through. Why? The reasons given to me were many by the TSA supervisor at the scene.
1)they fear a lawsuit
2)would look like profiling and could result in a lawsuit
3)the scanners will pick up anything (really, this was an answer)
4)They might get angry and cause a scene and then the news people would come and report on it
5)It’s against muslim religion for the women to be touched by anyone but a family member.
6)They aren’t acting “suspicious” and answered all the questions without hesitation
So, I ask you, who’s getting protected here?
6)
Paul, if the Drexels were Muslim that would have been the first thing they screamed about, not to mention the headline/lead in every news organization in the country: “TSA Profiles Innocent Muslim Child!!!” Don’t be disingenuous. The Drexels are not Muslim.
And you will note that I never wrote about the TSA screeners being “perverts” in my article–and I am not resposible for comments in response.
This government, this pc culture, this society, deserves our loathing and contemptas; for Paul,you deserve a one way ticket to an insane asylum.
For those who say it’s the parents’ fault, for not driving (because, of course, one can easily drive to, say, Europe, or Hawaii, or Japan, and it’s FUN!). . .
The airlines are only the beginning. The public is being trained to submit to government instrusion here. It’s not about safety. They’ve already talked about putting TSA agents at bus stations, to check buses. Soon, such agents will be on buses, trains, and, probably, at various checkpoints on the roads, disrupting your car trip—all in the name of “security” and safety”. (Also, probably at malls, shopping centers and movie theaters, too.)
What are you going to say then? “Well, if you don’t want your child to be groped, just stay in your house, and never go outside at all!”
This is bigger than just the airlines. (Especially if the TSA gets unionized; they’ll want to increase their job opportunities, and power.)
I don’t believe I said it was anyone’s fault. I questioned why the parents deliberately placed their child in this position. I have flown many hundreds of thousands of miles in my time and I was never treated like that little girl, except in the U.S.. Almost all other nations train their screeners to look for physiological indicators. They don’t require everyone to submit to a search.
I made a conscious decision to not fly anymore, as is my right. The government can’t force you to travel. You ALWAYS have an individual right to refuse. If your employer insists, find another job. If you don’t want to find another job, that is your decision.
Learn to live with the consequences of your decisions. Its called being free, even if you screw up.
Is that anything like “the government can’t force you to buy anything”? Does the word “Obamacare” ring a bell? We’re on the fast track to hell; and this government is doing today what our grandparents would never have even imagined.
gsw, WTF?
The parents are supposed to go into a separate room with their daughter—with no witnesses to whatever happens there—and allow an agent to “strip” her?
Why? Was there any reason to even suspect this kid, or her parents, were up to anything? So why the unreasonable search? This is a six year old girl, not a young Moslem male, visibly nervous and chanting “Allahu Akhbar” as he clutches a Koran, while emitting weird chemical smells from his body, or a “Black Widow” from the former Soviet empire, emitting weird chemical smells from her suspiciously bulky burkha. . .
(And isn’t it kind of creepy, having the parents actually go along with the strip search, as if they’re colluding with the creepy TSA investigator? And do you really want them to be alone in a room, with no witnesses, with a gaggle of possibly hostile TSA people? Not a good idea.)
Emma, if things keep on, sooner or later (probably sooner), parents won’t have a choice as to whether or not they can “Put kids in this situation.” Our entire culture will be “the situaion”, with instrusions, and violations of privacy, going on constantly; if parents resist it, they will be arrested.
It’s better to face this thing now, and put the blame where it belongs.
This is what happens when you appoint Muslims with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood to the DHS. Obama has.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/03/the-muslim-brotherhood’s-penetration-of-the-obama-administration/
Now this woman would have been waved right through.
Israeli soldiers don’t let a pregnant Palestinian woman pass through a military barricade
I’m sorry I forgot the link to the second item.
Israeli soldiers don’t let a pregnant Palestinian woman pass through a military barricade
http://youtu.be/M9qy4y-Y5zs
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened here yet.
I fly as infrequently as possible because it is such a hassle. The lack of profiling and pulling some grandmother out of line for a twice over really scares me. However, the TSA must be unquestioning and unwaivering in their duty. How many of the commenters would stand in front of a machine over an 8 hour shift that scans each passenger day in a day out without first or even daily checking the amount of radiation being emitted? The number that visit this website that would not do this is probably close to 100%. And then we are asked to trust their judgement?
In this new world odor, being a racist or profiling is a bigger crime against humanity than molesting kids.
When the new radiation porn scanners were introduced in late 2010, along with enhanced patdowns, there was a big outcry and promises of civil disobedience to coincide with the Thanksgiving peak air travel. But nothing happened. It all goes to show that Americans as a whole are sheep, and will tolerate far more government intrusions than you can imagine. As long as they have their American Idol, Desparate Housewives and professional sports teams, they will accept these civil rights violations and much more, while feeling good about themselves for not being racist.
Not so – the TSA switched off the scanners to avoid the further bad publicity that would follow the protests.
Why has this been forgotten so quickly??
Unless there was something suspicious about the people she was traveling with, or she was traveling alone, there is no valid reason for this little girl to have been searched.
That said, I did not think the TSA agent handled it badly. She talked all the way through about what she was doing, and was quick and professional. The child did not look upset to me. I suspect her parents became outrageously outraged after the fact, when they got some media attention.
But absent suspicion – it shouldn’t have been done! Stupid effing bureaucratic waste of time and money when they should be profiling and searching likely suspects.
I keep saying, the purpose of airport security isn’t to catch terrorists. They haven’t ever caught one, so either they’re an “efficient” government program, or they have another agenda. The obvious answer is there if you look closely enough: they distribute “neccessary” inconvenience as evenly as is humnanly possible, with exceptions for people’s sensitivities. That means that when George Clooney flies commercial, he’s as likely as you or I to get singled out, pulled aside, and searched. If George doesn’t act like a good sport and hand out autographs to all the TSA workers, it’ll be on the internet in minutes, and he’ll be branded a “Don’t you know who I am?” sort of celebrity (which is very bad for your career). All of this is built around a meme that this is neccessary in the age of terror, when of course it’s no such thing, and most of the impetus seems to be the creation of another government bureaucracy that does nothing useful except spend money and employ people.
Most of the effective terrorist-hunting programs, here and abroad, involve some sort of racial, ethnic, or behavioral profiling. Our wiser heads, the people who decide what’s culturally acceptable in our society, have decided categorically that using such criteria to catch terrorists is racist. Essentially, using your head when trying to figure out who’s the terrorist is “unfair” and therefore to be avoided. So we search Swedish supermodels and English movie stars in the belief that even if it’s entirely silly to imagine that they’re terrorists, they can’t be ruled out (because that would be unfair) and who would you rather frisk, a gorgeous woman or some guy in a burnoose? Juan Williams, of course, had to be fired because he pointed out how silly this preconception of the world is.
So we stumble forward until someone actually gets past our ineffective screening and kills someone. When that happens, Napolitano, Obama, and the rest of the crowd will try to convince us that the “system worked” again (as Napolitano said after the undie-bomber was thwarted by other passengers after waltzing through airport security in spite of his father warning us about him) and that the only thing wrong with the system–wait for it–is that their budget is to meager. It’s all so predictable…
My God, what a bunch of pathetic punk whiners you all are, let someone start killing Americans and all of a sudden you are all for whatever it takes from whoever’s and how many ever 18 year’s blood, it takes to handle it, but let security and prevention become a way of life and you cringe like the loser armchair warriors you all really are.
Kids cry when they get shots for Christ’s sake, what do you think the passengers on the 9/11 flights did?
Laugh?
That’s right, Ozzy! I mean, my God, what would happen to our society if we didn’t search 6 year old girls for bombs? My God, unless security and prevention become a way of life, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE! MURDERED BY LITTLE GIRLS!
I mean, c’mon, we should all stop being a bunch of punk weeny-heads and cry babies! After all, kids cry when they get shots! They just ought to learn to take their lumps, like the passengers on those 9/11 flights! (Who, by the way, were murdered by young, Islamic males, whom those supposedly in charge of our security, and preventing this kind of thing, ignored, and refused to investigate, even though some of them had overstayed their visas. But, hey! If we don’t search little girls, we’re wusses! RAAAARRRRRRRR! We TOUGH!)
/Okay. Sarc. off.
(Young men from Saudi Arabia are still being allowed into the country, by the way. But by all means, search those little girls. One of them might be Bin Ladin, in disguise!)
And Ozzy? “Who watches the Watchmen?” Who’se going to protect us from those attempting to make “security and prevention” a way of life! Achtung! Show us your papers! It is necessary for the security and prevention of trouble in the Fatherland! Ja wohl!
If I was that little girl’s father, I would sue the TSA and demand they fire that TSA employee for fondeling up on my daughter (that’s if I was her father, but I don’t have any kids myself, nor I’m not married either). This is one of the reasons why I’m going to try and avoid flying, I would rather take Amtrack and when I learn to drive, I’ll drive across the country (it’ll be worth spending my money on gas, despite our gas prices are pretty high). This is not a left-right paradigm, both sides are guilty for the TSA doing this nonsense to us, and the islamist have won, and I guarantee you that Osama Bin Laden is watching our news in his cave in Afghanistan and laughing at us for what the TSA is doing. And another thing, had any of the TSA did this to a muslim who wore a hijab or burka, I can guarantee you that CAIR would be giving speeches minutes later?
“A nation is defined by it’s borders, language & culture!”
Word has it that there are many convicts in prison sending applications to be TSA workers. Comments include that “they have a feel for the work.”
I have to wonder how much of this behavior is sheer racism: an under-educated black person hired by TSA taking the opportunity to stick it to the man, a la the OJ Simmpson verdict. In this particular case, “the man” it’s being stuck to is a little girl, who is probably THE most unlikely target to fight back or to say something quote-worthy like, “keep your hands off my junk”.
How much would the Federal budget save if we erased the whole entire TSA entity, including the Homeland Security apparatchniks, and just built a wall along the Mexican border and let American flyers take are of our own security?
And where do I vote on that as a proposition?
To dream the impossible dream
To fly unmolested and free
Not in chains from invisible forges
Stood in stocks that the public can’t see
To fight un-constitutional wrongs
To fly pure and chaste as the snow
With no gloom from strange hands in our panties
Groping gloves where those gloves should not go.
This is our Quest
To soar toward the stars
Without getting a rap sheet
Ending up behind bars
With the French Lady’s lamp
We so deeply Revere
Brightly shining o’er land, over sea
That is cherished and dear!
And we’ll pray
If we stay on our toes
That we’ll truly prevail
And, God willing, take down any twit
With a bomb in his tail.
And our flights
Will be better for this
That we’ll be PROfiled
with behavior-trained EYES
Striving free with our last
Drop of outrage
To reach
Our American skies!
Sounds better on YouTube (RubyDubidoux, not me. I’d sound like the tornado that went by a block away yesterday here [Wilson N.C.], leaving metal sheeting on our roof and other people’s insulation in up the old oak tree. And it did NOT sound like a train. My voice sounds better than a train!
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BILOXIPAT – OBAMA IS THE PUPPET – GEORGE SOROS IS THE PUPPETMASTER. GEORGE IS THE ONE WHO WANT AMERICA ON HER KNEES…..