The no-grope list: Look who gets a junk-touching exemption

Michelle Malkin ^ | 11/23/10 | Michelle Malkin

[Nachum]

You’ve heard of the “no-fly” list.

Now get a load of the no-grope list — a roster of the privileged federal officials and politicians who don’t have to be subjected to TSA’s grabby hands.

Lucky them, huh?

Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.

Aviation security officials would not name those who can skip the controversial screening, but other officials said those VIPs range from top officials like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and FBI Director Robert Mueller to congressional leaders like incoming House Speaker John Boehner, who avoided security before a recent flight from Washington’s Reagan National Airport.

[Nachum]

Obama-pals

[ExTexasRedhead]

Probably not a lot of cajones in these Elitists to check, ya think?

[OB1kNOb]

I would have thought Bawney Fwank would have insisted being ON the list.

[skeeter]

Its increasingly obvious this whole thing is more an exercise of executive authority over the masses than anything else.

They're doing it because they can.

Or can they?

[screaminsunshine]

The ruling class. Time to knock them back to reality.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[EQAndyBuzz]

Does congressman Ellison get a pass?

[Diogenesis]

TSA: Some gov't officials to skip airport security
Cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group
of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures"

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Obama: TSA's Nude Screening a Necessary Inconvenience

[Spok]

Look, on television, supermodels can be cops, firefighters, brain surgeons, lawyers, scientists, whatever. Why not TSA screeners? That would certainly change the experience for at least half the population.

[newheart]

Some animals are more equal than others.

[rob777]

"Don’t squeeze the J-Nap."


That one had me laughing so hard that I almost fell off the couch.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

This is the point I’ve been making. Trouble is you might see people going through security, then forgetting something in the car and going back out and then back through, then remembering they needed to buy a present for Grandma in the gift shop and going back out and back through ....

[supercat]

Given that the purpose of the "enhanced" screenings is to humiliate the pæons, it wouldn't do for the elite to be subject to the same humiliation.

[NativeSon]

getting the population to submit to these encroachments, these violations of our rights to me is the goal.

remember being appalled at all the cameras, red light cameras, etc in Brittan? well we have them now.

what's next, getting use to random stops while driving, walking, all in the name of security?

It's like the frog in hot water, we won't realize it until it's too late.

[immadashell]

Do you suppose that if I got fat and put on a Janet mask I could get through?

[paul51]

the rules are just for the little people

[Bon mots]

The wardens should not be subjected to the humiliations of the prisoners.

[BunnySlippers]

... and it’s being politicized.

Daily Beast and others are framing it as “Against the pat down = Republican = anti-Obama” and “For the pat down = Democrat = pro-Obama”.

[newheart]

what's next, getting use to random stops while driving, walking, all in the name of security?

Unless you might be an illegal immigrant, in which case you will be exempt from showing your papers.

[Freedom56v2]

Sucks to be a peon :(