Posted on 11/22/2010 10:04:18 AM PST by Biggirl
1) I am not your friend.
2) There are other modes of travel; you’d have plenty of time to get other arrangements by January. Flying is a privilege, not a right.
3) When there is incident of a finger INSIDE the ass or in the vagina, then it can truly be called sexual assault, rape or whatever. People being groped, clothed, while an inconvenience, and in my opinion, overstepping and NOT RIGHT, is hardly rape or sexual assault.
Look, I don’t like it, either. I’m not siding with them AT ALL. They need to profile. If the Muzzies don’t like it, or it’s against their whatever, they need to get over that because they are HERE. It was THEIR people in the name of THEIR religion that made all this bullshit possible. I think a lot of things they are doing is screwed up. I just think we’re going a bit overboard with the ‘I’m gonna file a suit if they touch my......’. I guess where I’m going with this is the litigious mind overrides common sense in this case. Our court systems are already backed up beyond belief with frivolous cases. While I’m not saying all airport ‘molestation’ charges are going to be unfounded, going into a facility where you KNOW you have the probability of being searched or scanned and then scream foul when it does happen just doesn’t make sense to me, especially when there is no lasting damage. I suppose mental anguish could be lasting, but if we sued for every thing that mentally anguished us we’d all be rich.
4) A differing opinion makes me a Marxist now, does it? I don’t think so.
I wonder why there would be TSA agents with bad backgrounds? What I’m saying is, aren’t they supposed to check BEFORE letting them loose on civilization, to avoid precisely what you described?
Yes, you are.
"everybody KNOWS this going in"
That doesn't make it OK.
if you have a problem with it, DO NOT FLY
That is exactly the control and response they want.
Are you sure this is the complacent path you want to take?
Again, I’m not siding with TSA. Are you calling me a liar?
Please tell me ANYWHERE in either of my replies where I say it is ok. You can’t, because I NEVER said it was ok.
I still stand by my comment, if you don’t like their policies, don’t fly. If anything, after a while,if enough people quit flying, and they tied it to this reason, the possibility is there that they would go out of business.
There are many other, although slower, modes of travel.
I’m not complacent at all; it’s just if I know there is a place I may be subjected to something I don’t like, I will avoid that place and find another route. I see the danger zone, I don’t go to danger zone.
Well, you’ve had your rant. Now try to answer the salient points I posed:
1. Does this unwanted sexual attack catch or deter terrorists?
2. Is this unwantd sexual attack a crime?
3. Will you volunteer to be the first person cavity checked by a bunch of unqualified perverts in public?
As for flying being a priviledge—that’s pure and unadulterated goverment propaganda. I’ve done some Googling. I found nothing credible to substantiate that claim. Perhaps you could enlighten me. And while we’re at it I suppose, in your opinion, riding a bus or train is also a priviledge? And what about walking down the street? Is that a priviledge, too? Not—unless you believe that all rights come from the government not our “creator”. Only Marxist’s believe that.
From Thomas Sowell's 2005 book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals", Page 201:
The racial fanticism of Hitler and the Nazi movement, which spread to the German generation of their day and led ultimately to the Holocaust, were not historically distinct characteristics of Germans as a people. On the contrary, the rise of such a man as the leader of such a people should serve as a permanent warning to all people everywhere who are charmed by charisma or aroused by rhetoric (emphasis mine - DW)
I believe in G-d, and I believe in our Constitution. I was meaning there is nowhere in our Constitution that guarantees a person’s right to fly, specifically. It is something that, if you have an interest in participating in, you have the freedom to pursue it ( as well as reject it), but it is not a Constitutionally guaranteed thing. That’s what I meant.
If you question that, maybe you need to quit calling other people Marxists and take a look in the mirror.
Have a great evening! :)
Yes, the case of Germany stands as an object lesson for those who care to see it. Leftists are too busy wrongly conflating the right with the National Socialists.
Ironically, the lesson’s lost on those who will be first consumed by the mosnters they applaud and vote into power.
Sowell’s one of the best and brightest intellects of our time. I have almost all of his books, including the one you mention. They are source of reference and inspiration; a reminder to see clearly and to always speak the truth.
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