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Governor Palin Calls Out the TSA for Extreme Political Correctness
Conservatives4Palin ^ | November 19, 2010 | By Doug Brady

Posted on 11/20/2010 12:53:54 AM PST by onyx

Governor Palin has weighed in on the TSA lunacy via Twitter:

Law enforcemnt profiles individuals/suspects when seeking info 2 prevent or deal w/other crimes;Why can't this be done @ airports 2 prevent?

TSA: why politically incorrect 2 "profile" anyone re: natl security issues?we profile individuals/suspects in other situations! profile away

This whole "enhanced pat down" episode is, as Governor Palin correctly implies out, an example of political correctness run amuck. Because this administration refuses to use simple common sense and profile terrorists like everyone else in the world, we're reduced to frisking nuns and screaming 3-year old children so we can't be accused of profiling (the horror!). And the coup de grace? Big Sis is considering giving a "pat down exemption" to Moslem women out of fear of offending them. When I first heard about that, I was sure it was a joke. I was wrong, although I'm sure the terrorists are having a good laugh.

That this is even being considered is absurd. Count me among those who don't believe this administration has a clue as to how to protect the country which, I thought, was the primary responsibility of the federal government (as opposed to putting ourselves in unnecessary danger so that our enemies will think we're tolerant or something). I guess I was wrong on that count too. Would it be impolitic of me if I went out on a limb and predicted that if and when the next terrorist attack occurs, the perpetrator will much more closely resemble Mohammad Atta than Sally Field? Just asking.



TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: obama; sarahpalin; tsa; tsapervs
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I think she's revving up for a FaceBook entry!
1 posted on 11/20/2010 12:54:01 AM PST by onyx
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To: grey_whiskers; mickey finn; Abbeville Conservative; allmendream; lonestar; trisham; ...
SARAH PALIN'S PING LIST


2 posted on 11/20/2010 12:55:38 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx
I was part of Operation Rescue and was arrested, fingerprinted and patted down and spent 13 hours in jail with nothing to eat but bologna on old bread. Case was eventually thrown out of court.

I am traveling soon and have decided to get the pat down to see which of my pat downs ends up being worse. My guess is that the TSA pat down will be worse.

I will post about it when the time comes.

3 posted on 11/20/2010 1:07:42 AM PST by Slyfox
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To: Slyfox

Ah, good on you! I look forward to reading about your experience.


4 posted on 11/20/2010 1:20:45 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

Once again, her position is aligned with the majority in the country, but she cuts through all the blather by getting to the real point and issue, as concisely as can be. And she’s the first politician to really speak forthrightly about it.

Agreed. A Facebook posting is about ready.


5 posted on 11/20/2010 1:22:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: onyx
Big Sis is considering giving a "pat down exemption" to Moslem women out of fear of offending them.

That's intolerable.

6 posted on 11/20/2010 1:27:38 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: onyx
Thanks for the ping!

I've been patiently (biting nails) waiting for Gov Sarah's take on the TSA situation. I feel a bit better now having read her blurb.

7 posted on 11/20/2010 1:44:14 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: 9YearLurker

Yep. She cuts right through the “fog”.

Watch for FaceBook entry. :)


8 posted on 11/20/2010 1:44:41 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: wendy1946

Absolutely reprehensible and stupid. Moselms are the damn enemy and the reason for all the additional ‘security’ measures!


9 posted on 11/20/2010 1:47:06 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Yes, me too. Now we await her FaceBook entry or perhaps an opinion piece in another major publication. I think she’s just revving-up.


10 posted on 11/20/2010 1:49:24 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: onyx

If Governor Palin does not understand the difference between the two different tasks, then she’s not ready for the Oval Office.

Profiling might be right, but offering up specious reasoning to support it is very weak.


11 posted on 11/20/2010 2:11:23 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: onyx
I think she’s just revving-up.

I sure hope so! These tweets are embarassing. :-(

12 posted on 11/20/2010 2:13:54 AM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
"I sure hope so! These tweets are embarassing. :-("

Aren't they? She should have used Morse code.

I'm tweetfully tweetful for Sarah's tweetings. They're tweets!

13 posted on 11/20/2010 2:43:34 AM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: onyx

Really! This pat down crap is just that. They’ve gone way too far. Confiscating prothetic breasts? Frisking nuns?

It will be fixed when people who don’t absolutely HAVE to fly find other means of transportation. The airlines are going to end up taking THIS one in the junk.


14 posted on 11/20/2010 2:49:39 AM PST by Just Lori
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To: onyx

I haven’t had sex in so long I am thinking of buying a plane ticket just to get fondled by the TSA.

I can request a female groper, can’t I?


15 posted on 11/20/2010 3:33:30 AM PST by Outrance
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To: Gondring

No analogy is a perfect fit and reasonable people don’t assume that it is meant to be so. They get the parallel and don’t try to stretch it to the extreme.

You are a classic Mitt/Mitch fan who has bashed everything Palin has done from the start and, I expect, will continue to do so.


16 posted on 11/20/2010 3:47:48 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: onyx
Without a much better system, this TSA mess will perpetuate and turn out to be really ineffectual.

The focus is on keeping planes in the air and no one seems to get that they don't need to reach a plane to do us in. Several time-coordinated suicide bombers, in the middle of long lines at major airports, will kill just as many, if not more of us and have the same effect.

If/when that happens, the government will go nuts and really put it's shoe on the back of our necks to "protect" us.

17 posted on 11/20/2010 4:09:21 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Outrance
I haven’t had sex in so long I am thinking of buying a plane ticket just to get fondled by the TSA. I can request a female groper, can’t I?

No. Unless you can convince them that your in the middle of "gender reassignment".

In any case, I'd suggest moaning so loudly that Larry Flint would blush.

18 posted on 11/20/2010 4:12:47 AM PST by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: 9YearLurker

Sarah drives people crazy because she cuts through the crap. We all know that the only way to control terror is by profiling - and I mean profiling Muslims and Arab men. Until we get someone in the White House who thoroughly understands this (and drops the specious and stupid “religion of peace” stuff), we are all in danger.
Go, Sarah, go!


19 posted on 11/20/2010 4:13:25 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: onyx
Download or listen to this small audio file:
Returning American troops screened by the TSA.security

20 posted on 11/20/2010 4:40:33 AM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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