Posted on 11/23/2010 6:39:38 AM PST by IbJensen
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.
They do not disrobe their passengers looking for the explosive device du jour. They focus on who might be carrying explosives, not on the objects themselves. They profile, Mr. President, they profile. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab never would have been allowed in the same ZIP code as an El Al aircraft.
What's next? Full-body cavity searches?
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It's war on Americans being waged by the gaggle of haters occupying the 'White Hut!'
An official also declared that flying is a “privilege”.
Well then so is riding in a car, riding on a train, or riding on a bus.
Freedom of movement has ended in America.
All Hail Herr Obama.
2012 cannot get here quick enough! Perhaps the new congress can grow a set in their “privates” and impeach the POS POTUS. At least tie up all his time, he is busy trying to kill America!
The public is being played. Prod and push those who live in “flyover country”.
Busiest travel season of the year and only now are the gropes being instituted.
The grinch is stealing “happy holidays” now.
If the pilots have to walk through the body scanners and be groped then so should the President and his wife. I know that Mr. Obama would never pass a security clearance check if he was seeking a job at the White House. Too much past association with radicals, terrorists, and unexplained inconsistencies in his paperwork.
Bin Laden & his cronies are all smiling at what they’ve accomplished - they’ve inflicted these searches on the American people and made Americans angry at the gov’t.
How simple it was to do.
They need a no fly list.
Instead of harassing all Americans, they should just put together a muslim list and prohibit them from plane travel with one exception a one way ticket home.
Why should all of America be held captive by a 6% segment of society that we have let in here through our own foolishness?
Muslim? be gone!....from SC Johnson...
Why should our freedoms and rights be diminished by them? Lets just return to pre 9/11!
President Obama called the full-body scanners and groin checks being performed “a huge inconvenience for all of us.”
All of us!? Are they an inconvenience for Obama, Napolitano, or Pistole?
“a huge inconvenience for all of us.”
yeah Barry - big inconvenience for YOU when you climb on Air Force One ain’t it? And yet YOU are the one person everyone in this country knows can’t prove his national origin!
Body cavity searches? Well what do you think TSA will do after the (inevitable IMHO) bombing results from a device that gets past the scanners and searches?
Thanks to leftist loons like appointee Janet Incompetano, Americans are being gored big-time.
Or major enemies are headquartered in the White Hut.
Remember when they savaged the Arizona illegal immigration legislation with a phony hollywood-nazi accent “Papers PLEASE!”?
Vot ischt dis schtrip searching all a’bout then?! Hmmm?!!!
“the Christmas Day bombing”
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What “Christmas Day bombing” ???
I thought the guy got caught before he bombed anything ???
Not only are bin Laden and his bearded lunatics laughing, but I honestly believe the rats that are ruining our lives and ruining our nation from the White Hut are laughing as well.
“Look what we’ve accomplished in two short years. Imagine; we’ve got two more to finish off the USA!”
On Saturday, President Obama called the full-body scanners and groin checks being performed “a huge inconvenience for all of us.”
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When did you get groped, Barry ???
doing background checks on prospective fliers
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For several years now, cruise lines have done security checks weeks before the ship sailed...
before 9/11 I could just get on the ship...
after 9/11 I had to get my “background check” document before I went...
It is a private contract made between a private citizen and a business that offers air travel for a fee.
Wat part of freedom to exhange lawful services in an open market do these collectivist idiots not comprehend.
Our country has fallen into debt and ruin and become an international laughing stock not because of "nuances" but because we simply cannot comprehend a few simple basic things that we supposedly learnt in kindergarden.
I would have fired him the minute I heard that statement.... if I were in charge.
You left off walking on a sidewalk.
The Christmas Day - Underwear Bomber was allowed onto his flight despite warnings from his very own father that his son was up to something, and the fact that he was on the watch list. How about that Mr A-hole President?
Barack Hussein Obama grew up in Indonesia, he doesn’t understand the American way and resents this nation.
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