Posted on 11/22/2010 5:33:58 PM PST by Justaham
The White House and the Department of Homeland Security indicated today that they won’t yield to demands to amend new airline passenger screening rules that have been decried as wildly intrusive.
On the contrary, administration officials are quietly and aggressively defending the policies against what they see as a media frenzy of distorted information. For instance, the administration noted that fewer than one half of one percent of the 34 million passengers who traveled on airplanes in or to the U.S. last week were subjected to crotch-area pat-downs.
They also disputed the very notion of a public backlash, even as those words played ubiquitously on news tickers and as video parodies of the Transportation Safety Administration were being emailed around the globe. Before press coverage of the new rules reached a roar late last week, TSA received only 700 complaints nationwide about its procedures, an administration official said. The official insisted on anonymity because the information was not intended for public release. The issue is sensitive because physical space intrusions are just about the last thing an administration cast by Republicans as prone to governmental overreach needs.
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Given that the TSA is not doing body cavity searches, what the are doing is unnecessary and certainly not sufficient.
NUTS.
While this is going on, what else is happening? With this WH it isn’t what is in this hand, it is what else are they up to?
YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS!!!
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That’s still 170,000 people.
I suggest the Administration, including zero line up for an examination.
It just proved that we are a fascist state when you have to assume everyone is a criminal instead of profiling. Political correctness comes from cultural Marxism and since we have Marxists in the white house this intrusion is all about power and to destroy common sense AND make certain people wealthy.
WE NEED TO PROFILE! ALL muslims need to be screened since they are the ones who threatened us. Also people from suspicious countries or non citizens and visa carriers. This idea that it is racist to profile comes from Marxists to destroy this country from within. If we can not use common sense, we are finished.
“Are you lesbian, gay, bi or hetero sexual? It’s against my religion to be touched by a homosexual; we believe it is an abomination.”
The Kenyan will wake up 5 points down in the polls and say what happened?
I want to know how much money changed hands, in both directions, over those scanners, and who’s hands they were.
Now the administration is calling 370,000 a pittance?
Something screwed up here...
There ought to be a moratorium on appointing rabid bull dykes to leadership positions at DHS and Justice.
Their sex perversions always lead to massive violations of normal Americans constitutional rights.
Didn’t Hitler empty the mental wards to fill his Gestapo?
Big Sis, Premier Hussein and his lovely wife along with every other senior transportation bureaucrat in DC and every single available Congress Critter need to head on down to Dulles, set a good example, and submit to the same enhanced “patdowns” that the rest of the Country is subject to, and then see what tune they start playing.
If that happened you might start a mutiny at TSA (at least at Dulles) when they try and find someone to grope Big Sis...
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