Posted on 11/23/2010 2:17:25 PM PST by Nachum
The new TSA airport scanners have justifiably garnered a lot of attention and criticism. Frankly, the entire scheme is nothing more than a cheap contrivance to give the impression that Democrats care deeply about national security. Insofar as Democrats actually care about national security, it could not be more obvious that it is a mere afterthought to their main agenda of turning America into a tawdry imitation of socialist Europe. It is only an uninterested administration that views national security as a perfunctory and unserious task that, as a response to radical Islamic plane hijackers, would conceive of fondling every flyer -- including little Caucasian toddlers -- to look for bombs.
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It’s a charade that Obama thinks will insulate him from the impending and inevitable failure that his national security policy will engender, just the stimulus and his economic policy.
I think he’s hoping the people stop flying, because of this the airlines loose money, they are to big to fail, vwalla! government run! What ever they put out front always look behind the curtain, somewhere back there you will find thier true intent
“Do you think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power the government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” —Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
The scanners are quite Orwellian also.
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Agreed.
They are training devices. They are intended to erode resistance to unwarranted searches and degrade expectations of privacy and dignity. In short, they are an important instrument in converting citizens into subjects.
The scanners and pat-downs are a direct assault on American individualism and our love of liberty and freedom. Individulaism and liberty get in the way of implementing the socialist utopia. This is one step in having us give up on our Constitution. They want us to be so personally humiliated and psychologically broken that we will give up our liberty for the promise of security—a security they have no intention on giving us of course.
THIS IS ABOUT IMPLEMENTING COMMUNISM. Just tone more assault on our founding principles.
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