Posted on 11/13/2010 5:55:29 PM PST by JLWORK
WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh reports today that Barack Obama gave instructions to the Homeland Security Department to spend one billion dollars on purchasing airport electronic body scanning equipment – the same devices that conduct de-facto strip searches for viewing by TSA personnel. The alternative to the strip search is a pat down search that includes touching of the passengers’ genitalia. So, what’s really going on, folks? Here’s Unruh’s story in its entirety:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=227489
Some brief excerpts I’ve culled are here:
“…”Legislation has been proposed to mandate full-body scanners and make them the primary screening method in all U.S. airports by 2013, but Congress has yet to act on it,” John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, wrote in a new commentary…”
“…in the wake of the bumbling underwear bomber’s botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound plane, Obama directed the Homeland Security Department ‘to acquire $1 billion in advanced-technology equipment, including body scanners, for screening passengers,’” he continued…”
“…”We’ve gotten tons of e-mails, mainly from females about the invasions of the body scanners,” Whitehead said. “In one case, a mother [told how] her 12-year-old daughter was pulled out of the security line, and [TSA] did touch her breast and vaginal areas.
“This is an unreasonable search and seizure,” he said…”
Perhaps. The Courts are the final arbiter of what constitutes an unreasonable search. My question is, what lies beneath the obvious here?
As airlines passengers we have two choices, both of them very unpleasant and demeaning – humiliating might be the appropriate word: Virtual nudity or having TSA agents’ hands on our private parts – perhaps down inside our pants, as one pilot in Unruh’s story described. Here’s what I believe could be in play:
1) Will these policies discourage people from flying? I believe they will. I, for one, refuse to participate in the madness and will not fly anywhere.
2) Would a significant loss of profits from decreased air traffic put the airlines into deeper financial trouble? I think so.
3) If the airlines industry were to financially collapse, would Obama consider seizing it and nationalizing it? We already have the deceased General Motors and Chrysler Corporations as precedents.
4) Could this airport security gambit be one part of the over-all scheme that Obama is working to induce a total collapse of the economy? If you listen to Rush Limbaugh’s theories, you can begin to believe that all of this current economic chaos is deliberate and part of the larger plan – to create a catastrophic failure of our financial system and plunge us into complete disorder.
So, yes – I can believe that Obama wants to bust the airlines industry, too.
Dark thought. Germany 1943, planes instead of trains, landing on the plains.
How much more can this nation take of this buffoon? The Euros are laughing at him. His recent trip was a disaster. The economy is in a shambles.
Jimmy Carter was the epitome of competence compared to this buffoon. Is it November of 2012 yet?
All good info but you will be fussed at for PMB infraction
Because I’m a big tipper?
And their manhood is small it would not be picked up.
It’s part of his stimlus bill for the porn an pervert program. / sarc
Not to destroy the economy but to support the brown shirt movement.
If a TSA thug gropes you, you loudly, and I mean loudly, ask “Why are you groping my ______.” Be very explicit about what is happening. No name calling, no physical violence - nothing that could be construed as aggressive behavior. Hopefully, others will hear what is happening even if it is in a closed off area.
I don’t think he has plans to take over the airline industry or anything.
I do believe he thinks the virtual strip searches and pat down groping are fine for the “little people” because he and his family will never be subject to it.
He also probably assumed the sheeple will just along with it and is probably surprised at the backlash that is starting to grow.
One word.......DEFUND
Start a month long boycott of the airlines.
“If a TSA thug gropes you, you loudly, and I mean loudly, ask “Why are you groping my ______.” Be very explicit about what is happening. No name calling, no physical violence - nothing that could be construed as aggressive behavior. Hopefully, others will hear what is happening even if it is in a closed off area.”
Yes indeed... if you HAVE to fly, this is a great option.
What’s the number of people on commercial airliners a given year? 24-25 million? How much would 25 million strips of bacon cost?
Obama really likes trains. How does this all fit together?
Average salaries for TSA Agents & Managers....
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Average salary for a TSA agent ranges from $29795.00 to $44692.00 per year depending on the individual’s level of education and experience. ...
Etc., etc.
Who said sex offenders should be incarcerated when 0bama, Napolitano & crew can simply PAY THEM?
May I just make a short statement. I literally hate Obama like I’ve never hated anyone, ever in my entire life.
Yer scaring me here, man.
JW
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