Posted on 11/14/2010 10:01:10 AM PST by NCBraveheart
Question. Is too much being made of this TSA pat-down issue? I have been reading a lot of stories on line that this is tantamount to sexual assault under cover of authority. Are these X-Ray scanners that bad? I just have to wonder how we ever flew prior to 9/11. I am watching a YouTube video some guy caught on his phone after refusing a groin check what is scary is the recording over the PA in a soothing voice that security is everyone’s job. Very “1984” So what do y’all think??? Me, I am against it I think the TSA is a waste of tax money and and infringement of our liberty
In 1949, the danger of the fluoroscope was revealed and the machines in the United States were quietly phased out during the 1950s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
The body scanners being used by TSA reminds me of the Floroscopes. What is the difference other than time of exposure?
“Stamp Act,” mountain or molehill?
“Seizure of the Hancock’s ship Liberty,” mountain or molehill?
“Missing 18 minutes of audio tape,” mountain or molehill?
“Is there something “special” about this machine that we need to know?”
Lot of connected political players are invested in that machine and stand to make lots of money of the whole deal.
Last straw in the ben dover and face mecca k |~ @ |) from the progressives.
mons veneris
It’s the engineering side of me. Don’t just try and fix what went wrong, find out why it went wrong and change it.
Wow - 20 posts, and the “If you have nothing to hide...” crowd hasn’t made an appearance yet....
Do they take Sundays off??
It’s common sense. We have the good fortune of knowing who the enemy is & what they look like.
It’s a suicide pact to cling to Marxist PC rather than deal with the threat.
Pat downs are for criminals. I should not be made to feel like a criminal for traveling by plane.
I think this frames the issue the wrong way. The pat down is just a tactic, a means to an end. The invasive search, the large scale herding of people, the premise that one must be demeaned and presumed a criminal in order to travel. That's the question? Will we accept that? It appears the answer is yes.
Anyone even resembling a Muslim will get a pass.
It’s an illusion that it will stop anything at all and on top of that, is an invasion of privacy and has raised medical concerns.
That said, I rarely fly anymore, so my decision not to fly at all, will not have much of an effect.
I’ve been forced to fly on business throughout the country recently, and from my own personal experience these stories of punitive gropings are no exaggerations. TSA has finally crossed the line in terms of both privacy and common decency.
No...if the machines remain and the furor dies down, they will spread like a cancer into other structures: courthouses, license bureaus, post offices etc.
Look at how cameras have now invaded every corner of our society; intersections, stores, parking lots, overpasses, highways, gas stations etc.
Reversing the trend is a herculean task; head it off now.
Back to the ‘pat down’, someone should urinate on the hand that reaches up into the crotch area. They are even subjecting small children to this search. Can you imagine the pervs putting their applications in for that job??
“I’d rather be scanned than felt-up.”
How about neither? Screw this law. Screen the passengers and profile the crap out of them.
The “see me nude” screening is bad enough, but a groping by the bunglers at TSA is wholly unacceptable. I am also certain that such screenings will be highly selective, no Muslim woman in a head to toe burhka will ever be screened like this ditto for any imam. However your grandmother, your wife and your kids will get the full treatment.
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