The Government of the United States reacted to the first attack on American soil since 1812 by…

…going trillions of dollars into further debt, ballooning the size of the federal bureaucracy, and stripping average Americans of their dignity and freedom. It’s the only by-rote response our Government has anymore to ANY problem.

The fact that our security apparatus, which is only a reflection of our elected leaders, steadfastly refuses to pull young Middle-eastern men between the ages of 18 and 40 of Arab or African Muslim lineage, out of line for intense scrutiny shows the depths to which our cultural confidence has eroded.

You’ve put it most succinctly (and brilliantly): As with most things in our nation, yes, we’d rather abuse and torment innocent children than climb down off our pedestal of Enlightened, Tolerant Self-Congratulations.

I decided to eliminate flying previously. The new “security” procedures simply add to the decision to not subject myself to the indignities the government heaps on people who must fly.

And we are to pretend that 90-year-old grandmas from Nebraska flew planes into buildings on September 11th.

No more searching elderly people.

Of course it’s nuts but what do you expect? To search according to a profile is to them prejudice. So grandmothers and small children must be grouped. It serves no purpose whatsoever but it’s the product of minds driven by self deceit and hate of Normal people, the fixation on being different & superior.

As the holiday travel season looms, there will no doubt be many more horror stories.

I am planning on having my cell phone video camera ready when I go through security. But who, besides my own Congressman, can I send the complaint and video to? Which congressional committee has oversight of the TSA and can put a stop to this insanity?

I wrote about this earlier after a trip with my daughter. She was pulled out and bodyscanned before I even knew what was happening. I was appalled.

However, we had another trip to Amsterdam recently, and everyone was bodyscanned at the gate. I had a completely different feeling about it then, especially looking around and seeing who else was boarding our plane. I don’t know what the answer is. It is creepy, but if it deters or catches those bent on evil, then maybe it is the price we have to pay for safety.

…is the TSA regional administrator trying to explain how to make searching kids “more like a game”. I shudder at the parallels with sexual predators and their child victims.

These guys are absolutely clueless. They are so certain that they are doing “the right thing”, searching kids, just that they need to do it with more “sensitivity”. Janet Napolitano writes an op-ed piece in USA Today that boils down to “The system is working! REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL!” (http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-11-15-column15_ST1_N.htm)

Meanwhile the usual suspects bring bombs and weapons onto planes, knowing that the random search is rigged to reduce the possibility of them being searched to prevent “profiling”, or if they do get selected, to make a scene about how they are being treated unfairly by “racists”.

This is what we get for putting Liberals in charge of national security.

He’s currently talking about the TSA searching kids.

This new line of inspection is begging for a “sexual misconduct” complaint. It won’t be very long in coming.

I thought sure, when I posted my response earlier, that someone would point this out. So now I will.

The Father/Reporter started his piece apparently feeling obliged to make clear that there “…has to be some sacrifice…”. apparently the man has never heard of Ben Franklin’s famous statement.

“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

I thought sure, when I posted my response earlier, that someone would point this out. So now I will.

The Father/Reporter started his piece apparently feeling obliged to make clear that there “…has to be some sacrifice…”. apparently the man has never heard of Ben Franklin’s famous statement.

“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

there are some women (and some men) that wear hygiene or incontinent products. Some of these people may also have artificial joints which will set off metal detectors. How does TSA handle these people or are the pat downs not that invasive?

I quit flying about a year ago when they started installing those x-ray naked machines in Europe. I found out what they were later and said “that’s it for me”! Only problem is it’s hard to drive across the ocean. They are easing up over there and now its here. Since they screen all arriving international passengers that would require me to go through this machine there and then several hours later go through it here for dangerous levels of radiation or get groped by some perv. In one way I am glad this happened so we can put a stop to the madness. When I would talk about this people would tell me I was being silly. Like the time where some little pervert in Brussels grabbed my crotch (I am a male) and said “what is this”. My response cannot be given here but I can tell you it was very direct and not pleasant and involved references to the little mans sexual preference.

I want one instance where a TSA passenger inspection has found a bomb!

Give me a break. A background check would have revealed all the in flight attempts that were thwarted by passengers! Believe me after witnessing on more than one flight an unruly drunk being restrained, I guarantee you there will be no more hijackings, screening or not!

and TSA and the Fed’s are doing a wrong thing. The bottom line is that there is no way to stop a determined Hijacker. There is nothing that could have stopped the 9/11 attacks. The only difference might have been the method used to hijack the planes. Instead of box cutters they might have used Ink Pens which by the way will stick a hole in your throat just a easily as a box cutter can slice it.

we should be insisting that before the TSA Goon performs a pat down on me or you, we get to conduct our own pat down of the TSA Perp. That way we can ensure that whoever is doing the pat down on passengers is not some deranged lunatic creep, with explosives in their drawers, is waiting for a large crowd to form before he/she decides to blow everyone away. It would also be necessary to pat down all TSA personnel because we wouldn’t want to offend any of them by profiling just the patter downers!!!! I wonder how many pat downs they would have to, or could, endure during the course of a single eight hour shift.

Everyone does realize what is next? There is only one answer to all this mess! Next thing the TSA will ban is cell phones and cameras! That should solve this problem!

Terrorists
Step
Ahead

The rest of you folks get in line with your kids for special screening!

I watched the video for it this morning on VH-1.

They got Natasha Bedingfield to sing “Strip Me”.

Here’s the chorus…

If you strip me,
Strip it all away
I’m still the same

Take what you want
Steal my pride
Build me up
Or cut me down to size
Shut me out
But I’ll just scream
Im only one voice in a million
but you aint taking that from me
Oh oh no you aint taking that from me

I read several articles over the past few days on this issue. I also read the accompanying comments. Many commentors state they are happy for a little inconvenience if it means improved safety. They also state that if people don’t like the TSA rules they shouldn’t fly. I am astonished at how many people willingly agree to waive their rights.

I wonder, if a TSA employee showed up at their house the day before a flight and said they wanted to search the premises to be sure there were no bomb making materials present, would those commentors object or waive yet another right. Or, if the TSA monitored everyone’s email and telephone conversations to make sure nothing was discussed that would raise concerns. I can’t imagine they wouldn’t objuct to these illegal searches but, I could be wrong. But, I would bet they would approve.

This madness has to stop. If the government wants to search people, they should search those with the highest potential for causing concerns and leave the rest of us alone. And, to those folks willing to give up their rights to feel safer boarding an airplane I say, take a bus because I don’t want to waive my right to privacy to make you feel safer.

but isn’t it amazing that they just happened to have these machines laying around? Who built them and why didn’t they build a computer to analyze the results? When they come up with that, requiring no human intervention except when the machine pings, perhaps I’ll fly again.

In the meantime, forget this PC bullcrap and PROFILE!! If I were a terrorist, I’d be a lot more concerned about being profiled than about being randomly selected.

This is like putting a whole high school into remedial reading because one can’t read!

The day in day out MONOTONY of doing the same thing over and over is likely to cause more errors in judgement than profiling the most likely suspects. Add that to the FACT that the most likely suspects are able to opt out for ‘religious objections’ and we have a real comedy playing out in the TSA!!

Meanwhile, EVERYONE suffers and ‘the enemy’ is ROFLing.

Mark Hemingway – George Soros also profiting off controversial new TSA scanners
George Soros, the billionaire funder of the country’s liberal political infrastructure, owns 11,300 shares of OSI Systems Inc., the company that owns Rapiscan. Not surprisingly, OSI’s stock has appreciated considerably over the course of the year. Soros certainly is a savvy investor.

Five security layers down: you now finally arrive at the only one which Ben-Gurion Airport shares with Pearson — the body and hand-luggage check. “But here it is done completely, absolutely 180 degrees differently than it is done in North America,” Sela said.

“First, it’s fast — there’s almost no line. That’s because they’re not looking for liquids, they’re not looking at your shoes. They’re not looking for everything they look for in North America. They just look at you,” said Sela. “Even today with the heightened security in North America, they will check your items to death. But they will never look at you, at how you behave. They will never look into your eyes … and that’s how you figure out the bad guys from the good guys.”

NEW DEPARTS
When I travel by air now and then,
The security staff wave me in:
I don’t have to be scoped
Or publicly groped,
I just hand them a lewd 8×10.

TAKEOFF
“With security lapses reviewed
On Flight 253, we conclude:
Due to differing beliefs
About bombs in one’s briefs,
Every passenger now must fly nude.”

WELCOME TO AMERICA
“You illegally crossed our border?
You’re a drugs and weapons importer?
You’re a sociopath
Spewing venomous wrath?
Yes, everything seems in order.”

ZERO TOLERANCE
When the stewardess gave it a tug,
I complained that my seatbelt was “snug.”
She said I’d regret
That insidious threat:
“Backwards, ‘snug’ spells ‘guns,’ you lug!”

PROFILES IN CARNAGE
Multiculturalism assails
Common sense until it fails:
Screeners x-ray granny
And pat down the nanny,
But ignore young Arab males.

(politickles.com)

Here is the Aviation and Transportation Security Act Public Law-

http://www.tsa.gov/assets/pdf/Aviation_and_Transportation_Security_Act_ATSA_Public_Law_107_1771.pdf

Please look at page 16 of this pdf document where it talks about S44920 Security Screening opt-out program, if the airport hires a qualified private screening company. I don’t read legalize very well. I do know that I don’t want Ugly Janet storing enhanced body images of my fellow citizens in the government, even though the scanners were not supposed to store or print those images.

Also, please check Sec 109 Enhanced Security Measures, on page 17. There is a section that states:

“Establish requirements to implement trusted passenger programs and use available technologies to expedite the screening of passengers who participate in such program, thereby allowing screening personnel to focus on those passengers who would be subject to more extensive screening.”

I want the whole mess gone, yesterday. Our military has equipment to detect IED’s, we have dogs that can sniff bombs and many other things, many of them are trained at Lackland Air Force base in Texas, I know, I worked for the company that had the government contract to provide the care of those German Shepards. We have technology to detect about anything. We are the United States for God’s sake. We are better than this invasion of privacy and freedom. And, to think, according to Donald Berwick, probably full body CAT scans will be eliminated because they are too expensive.

Let me see if I’ve got this right. As Americans,we’ve given up our right to not be sexually invaded or irradiated when we “Move about the country”, but, following the Israeli model is too offensive? To whom?

Does this mean that when Nancy loses her USAF Commandeered Jet, she’ll have to be grouped like the rest of the “Great Unwashed”?

Let me see if I’ve got this right. As Americans,we’ve given up our right to not be sexually invaded or irradiated when we “Move about the country”, but, following the Israeli model is too offensive? To whom?

On the bright side: Does this mean that when Nancy loses her Commandeered USAF Jet, she’ll have to be grouped and scoped like the rest of the “Great Unwashed”?

One more thing. I just heard earlier today that if you refuse to be scanned, you’ll be fined $1,100.00. As Renaldus Magnus once famously noted: “The ten most dangerous words in the English language are ‘Hi, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’ ”