Thanks. Folks I just wanted to know if I was over the top in my belief that this whole dept is of no real value. I didn’t want to give the impression that I am in favor of this crap. I have a couple friends who are TSA screeners and it amazes me how they can justify what they are doing as in any way helpful.
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“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
I posted these comments to another FReeper on a separate thread recently:
“Maybe it's time for all the decent TSA agents to refuse to be part of the molestation program. I'm sure most didn't sign up for this when they took the job. Maybe it's time for a strike and a few days off work if nobody will listen to them. These decent people are being desensitized to the atrocious behavior they are being required to do. It could turn a decent person into someone they themselves don't even recognize because they get so used to treating people like objects to be probed and prodded.
The Nazis were great at turning average everyday citizens into sadistic killers through desensitization techniques. I'm not saying that's where this is going. Just that mild brainwashing and Hegelian methods go a long way in furthering fascistic thinking and poisoning the minds of those involved.
(Or) Maybe your friend needs to find a new line of work.”
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“Ever read the 4th Amendment? The problem here is that Muslims and foreigners aren't profiled. Common sense isn't used and all of us are having our Constitutionally protected rights abused at the hands of a corrupt Administration.
Bush's TSA kept us all safe for years without the strip search machines and vaginal/breast and penile crotch grab sexual assaults.
These methods are THIS administration's attempt at further humiliating and desensitizing the American public to the abuse of 4th Amendment rights. An attempt to beat us down psychologically into submission. Many a tin pot dictator's regime has done the same to the citizenry in the past. But we are Americans and are supposed to value liberty,freedom and our God-given Constitutional rights more then other dumbed down or gullible populations throughout the world.
I don't believe we've lost our heart yet, and this litmus test being used by this administration isn't floating with the general population. Thus the public backlash.
The irony in all this is that the same liberal idiots who say a woman has a right to her own body in regards to killing an innocent child have no problem having them groped by complete strangers, male or female. Hypocrites all!
One more note: This shows that REAL men don't exist in the TSA. Any man, who calls himself a man, but would stand by and allow women and children be subjected to these molestations is NO man at all.”