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.
I got this in email today:
WONDER WHY NOBODY THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE??? MAYBE ALL THE NEW SENATORS, GOVERNORS, ALL U.S. AIRLINES... ANY AND EVERYONE WHO “CARES” SHOULD HEAR THIS AND FIND SOMEONE TO INVENT IT!!!
Here’s a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports:
All we need to do is develop a booth that you can step into that will not X-ray you,
but will detonate any explosive device you may have hidden on or in your body.
The explosion will be contained within the sealed booth.
This would be a win-win for everyone.
There would be no racial profiling and the device would eliminate long and expensive trials.........
This is so simple, it’s brilliant!!!!
I can see it now: you’re in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion.
Shortly thereafter, an announcement comes over the PA system,
“Attention standby passengers, we now have a seat available on flight number...
Gropers Obama and Big sister Janet, both of them perverts.
Because he’s the czar of czars, and can do whatever he wants until Congress or the courts say otherwise.
Debasing the general populace and getting away with it edges them slightly more into behaving like cattle.
>>Start a month long boycott of the airlines.<<
Not gonna happen. I have to travel bicoastal weekly and I’ll be damned if I will give up my family nor my vacation plans.
But I will protest this as loud as I can and as 2 million mile flier I and my fellow road warriors will be heard.
What the hell happened to the promised “truest traveler?”
So the moral of the story is, if you are a woman, wear a headscarf and scream bloody murder if you get touched anywhere below the neck.
They could avoid all of this by making Muslims fly on separate planes...but that would be profiling.
Bump.
Would also suggest that there was quite a lobby (payoffs) to the Hussein Asylum (and former RINOs over the years) from the manufacturers and developers that build these things.
Maybe that’s the solution—everyone pretend to be a Muslim, so they have to wave you through.
Well I wonder how my very liberal brother in law who has for fly for work is going to like this...
Zero won’t be winning a lot of friends with this baloney. We could do what Israel does but no...that wouldn’t be PC.
From what I understand, nobody knows security like Israel. Why not just copy what they do at the airports?
The answer, of course, is obama is a good little muslim who would never take advice from a Jew.
TSA could become part of ObamaCare. While having your body cavities searched at the airport, you could be given your annual physical exam including your colonoscopy, pap smear, and/or prostate exam. Get to the airport a day or two in advance because of the long lines.
Check into Soros ties to the body scanners! See if something smells foul.
My take is to make it so painful to be a TSA agent that nobody will want to do it.
Not suggesting anything illegal here, just sayin'...
PING~!
They could do even better by not letting Muslims in the country, not letting those that are here fly, and deporting all from the US. Enough of this PC BS.
Complete the following sentence:
“Obama directed the Homeland Security Department ‘to acquire $1 billion in advanced-technology equipment, including body scanners .......”
Answer: “in order divert attention the fact that his DHS ignored the no fly list, which included panty bomber’s name.”
The thought makes my head ache. How old is Soros, anyway?
JW
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