Posted on 11/22/2010 6:01:06 PM PST by Kaslin
Safety: When U.S soldiers with nail clippers and flight attendants who've survived breast cancer are treated as potential terrorists, you know the TSA is "acting stupidly." Yet the administration thinks everything is fine.
Imagine the department of motor vehicles with cattle prods, and you're close to the mentality exhibited by Transportation Safety Administration chief John Pistole on CNN's "State of the Union" show Sunday. He told host Candy Crowley that what the Israelis have "is top-notch security," but the U.S. won't use these techniques because America does not profile.
Excuse us? The U.S. won't use what the world's No. 1 terrorist target has shown to be effective because it's allegedly discriminatory, but is willing to strip-search grandmas and little children at random? This is cruelty and inefficiency raised to a science.
On Saturday, President Obama called the full-body scanners and groin checks being performed "a huge inconvenience for all of us."
He said, "In the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing, our TSA personnel are properly under enormous pressure to make sure that you don't have somebody slipping on a plane with some sort of explosive device on their persons." Like cancer survivors with prosthetic breasts?
As tennis star John McEnroe might put it, Mr. President, you cannot be serious. The Israelis manage to avoid disaster by checking the passenger lists, doing background checks on prospective fliers and personally interviewing those they deem suspicious.
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OK. Everyone knows that the current policy is political theater to make sure no one can claim “discrimination” against Muslims.
Up until now it has been a pathetic annoyance.
But, now we have to admit:
An agent of the Federal Government examining between your legs and putting his hand up your groan to make sure you are not a terrorist — when there is NO OTHER EVIDENCE making you suspicious — is a direct violation of the Fourth.
I say: time for a class action suit against, with Captain Zero's name at the top.
When U.S soldiers with nail clippers and flight attendants who’ve survived breast cancer are treated as potential terrorists, you know the TSA is “acting stupidly.”
How do we know that these TSA guys aren’t terrorists. Shouldn’t they get strip searched before entering an airport?
I heard them on the radio.
“We have to do anything and everything to ensure the safety of the public no matter how distasteful it is” TSA Administrator
I about ran off the road.
I ,for one, believe this whole thing is a CYA response to intelligence reports of an increased threat environment. Why else would they start this enhanced security just days before the busiest travel season of the year? They say it is in response to the Xmas day bomber, but if that were true, why did they wait almost a year? I am convinced they have learned of a new threat and are afraid to panic the public. The only other plausible explanation would be revenge for the election debacle they suffered. Take your pick.
Anything and everything -— other than profiling of course
these people are sick in the head
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