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.
First, deport all of them. Then seal them off from the rest of the world.
That means EVERY WHERE.
Wow - could you please explain, Dozer7?
So does Willie Green...
I think the reason is clear, the Muslims will not tolerate the violation of their bodies ..so they will stop flying
Good points, which suggest not only openings for law suits, but a business opportunity for an Airpot vender to sell exposure badges, so that frequent flyers could gather evidence for a lawsuit if and when they develop medical problems from this insanity.
Still, I think constantly of what will be my next action if someone near me makes the slightest move toward revealing terrorist intent.
There are ways ~
I used to didn't think of such things.
Frankly the intelligence value of a failed terrorist on a plane is probably not all that high. I say we just kill them. No more underpants bombers getting off the plane with their limbs intact.
Clearly, he means before he was married.
ROTF!!!
I think I am starting to get it... little hope indeed, unless something gets unleashed!
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Exactly. Debasing the American population is necessary to prepare us to be controlled when the One World Order kicks in.
It will keep us well controlled in one of the metro cities he’s got planned for us. A walk to work with a limited supply of government run utilian stores where we can get a few handouts.
I won’t fly again, I’ll drive across the country to see my kid grad from boot camp if I have to. Those machines are too expensive and there is no way I’m going to be charged with breaking one. :)
I was just wondering who owned the company.
Wiki says chertoff, co-author of patriot act, has wanted these things since 05
Why not? We didn't before Obama, either, so your snark, while based in fact, is not the reason.
Two reasons:
1. Israeli security measures are based on profiling, and there are enough leftists in the judiciary who have reinterpreted the Constitution as a suicide pact that copying them would never survive the inevitable lawsuits.
and
2. Israeli security measures use relatively few intelligent, well-trained screeners in comparison to the jobs-program masquerading as security ("Thousands Standing Around") that we've got.
Devils advocate here:
Why, because the TSA screener is doing what they are told/ordered told to do, it is not always the employees fault... just saying, I can tell you, most of them do not enjoy having to do it anymore than we enjoy having to go through it.
BTW,, they are not all “thugs”, I know, I was one, until I saw it was not for me,, but there are some good folk out there trying to perform an impossible job, maybe not the alot, but some...
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I second that statement.
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