Posted on 11/18/2010 3:11:11 AM PST by Scanian
With all the bad press the TSA has received recently, we can't be sure if the acronym stands for Transportation Security Administration, Touches Sensitive Areas, or Truly Scandalous Attention. But, for sure, its pat-downs and sci-fi radiation screeners give many of us another good reason to avoid the increasingly unfriendly skies. Yet while the TSA right now has supplanted the IRS as the bureaucracy we most love to hate, its policies are merely part of a longstanding cultural trend: the failure to recognize that the good of the many outweighs the good of the few.
It's the same reason why certain cities, most notably London, are now surveilling their residents with thousands of video cameras. If you're not willing to administer punishment sufficient to deter all the criminally inclined save a few intractable miscreants, some of whom you can catch, the only other solution is to have an all-seeing Big Brother that can catch all. It's much like treating a cancer: If you cannot target just the affected tissue, the only other solution is to treat the whole body.
Because the former is preferable not just in medicine, but also law enforcement, behavioral sciences specialists long ago developed the method called "profiling." Unfortunately, social-engineering specialists soon after discredited the universal application of profiling with a method called propaganda. Consequently, when we want to administer targeted treatment in the effort to thwart terrorism, we're told that it's "racial profiling" and beyond consideration. This is utter nonsense.
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Frankly I am sick and tired of NY’s congressman Peter King with his endless demands for more money more money more money for NYers. There is no end to his demanding attention, all the while praising bubbaclinton as his new best friend.
Excuse me. But if bubba hadn’t been so busy with the cigars we might have put a stop to these attacks years ago.
BTW, I intended to write “hiring” AA losers. Not “airing” them.
Actually, a lot of them ought to be tossed out in the cold.
It would not be racial profiling. The violent, savage political movement cleverly disguised as a religion accepts people of all races.
If there were a reliable way to detect a passenger’s ideology, I would be in favor.
Here is an idea. Offer everone as they approach the plane a piece of bacon. If they eat it, they board, if not they get scanned, wanned, patted, orifice searched, fillings Xrayed, Colonoscopied, held for 72 hours while every bit of crap that comes out is scanned, tested chemically, and Xrayed. Then they can board.
The Israelis seem to have found a way:
Talk to the buggers. Learn to identify liars.
When was the last time El Al had a bombing or a highjacking?
We know who wants to do us harm they should be isolated, searched and questioned.
Let’s just hand everyone a piece of bacon as the are in line to board the plane. After swollowing it and renouncing Mohammed as a pedophile and murderer they can board.
Your anti semitic views fail to consider there are many besides Muslims who eschew pork.
I have the solution. Don’t let Muslims fly
Remember the imortal words of Pistole, "we are risk based and intelligence driven." You cannot make this stuff up.
These clueless idiots have no honor. They have no honor. In days gone by good citizens would have chased folk like this around town with a horsewhip then tarred and feathered them and run them out of town.
Brain dead and anti-America as well.
I find I often invent more unreasonable conclusions the more TV I watch.
I probably should say that I don't think Gibson was specifically talking about the "Crotch Bomber", (at least when I was listening) but rather, using profiling as a means to more efficiently determine which passengers should be subjected to more invasive screenings and/or detention.
That is a great cartoon, and pretty much what I had in mind.
How many more red flags could there have been on the crotch bomber.
What has happened to our country makes me sick.
All this insanity was promulgated by slick willie and his grifter wife. To think that Jamie Gorelick was on the 9/11 Commission..........
I despair...........
There was nothing anti-semitic about that post. Requiring the consumption of pork products guarentees that every moslem will be defiled when on board the plane. A deflie moslem goes to hell when he dies. What person would willingly give up his 72 virgins just to blow up a plane when he knows he is defiled?
There is the issue of how do we handle the Jews. I don't really have a good answer. I seem to remember, from my reading of the scriptures, that they are only unclean until sundown when they eat non-kosher. A small sacrifice to make to be totally safe on the plane.
Fortunately the number of dietary observant Jews is pretty small compared to the number of moslem terrorists.
It is amazing. The other troubling thing is that the TSA screeners/scanners/pat downs/whatever didn't seem to pierce the disguise of that person in the old guy mask.
See my reply #16 on the now locked thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2629308/posts?page=16#16
TSA should take over the old Allstate Insurance motto:
You’re in good hands with TSA.
Or the newer one:
TSA, the good hands people.
They take away our 4th amendment rights because they don’t want to profile. They say that if it save one life, it’s worth destroying the Constitution.
Why don’t they lower the speed limit to ten mph? That will save 10’s of thousands of lifes each year.
BECAUSE YOU WOULD REVOLT. That is what controls these b**tards.
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