That said, you want a wall?
Isn’t that kind of the same sort of thinking?
Posted on 11/27/2010 5:32:54 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
Last fall, flying out of Chicago O'Hare, I ran into that rarest of breeds: a Transportation Security Administration agent with a sense of humor. In her "Da Bears" accent, she moved the line along with a good-natured, "awright: who's my next victim?" At least they're allowed to joke about it. If a rubber-gloved fed cups your -- er, I prefer the term "treasures" -- just turn your head and cough politely. Don't dare try to ease the awkwardness with a wisecrack, lest you get arrested under the TSA's no-joking policy.
Sometimes, when I manage to pull my eyes away from my twinkly smartphone and look around, I think, "Wow, if you squint a little, this could be a sci-fi dystopia!" (It happened again just recently, as I was passing through the gates at my local Metro station, and Janet Napolitano's voice boomed ominously from the loudspeakers, ordering me to say something if I see something.)
Thankfully, the growing anti-TSA backlash shows that for many Americans, there isn't a Soma dose high enough to get them to grin and bear the bureaucratic feel-up.
In fact, even some of our most rabid terror-warriors, like former Sen. Rick Santorum and neocon stalwart Charles Krauthammer, now say they've had enough.
Santorum and Krauthammer blame a politically correct mentality that prevents profiling. But the Christmas bomber was Nigerian; the shoebomber, a Brit with a Jamaican father. Should we just give the "freedom fondle" to anyone vaguely swarthy?
I have a different explanation for how we got here.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Spray away.
How does a fence on ONE border accomplish this?
It does not, and neither does coddling hispanics. Lets lay the blame were it belongs. Corrupt politicians on both sides of the border who enable bad behavior for money and votes.
This is specifically Bush’s fault.
When the Democrats demanded the TSA employees by Federal government employees with possible collective bargaining rights, Bush and the Republicans should have walked away. Hundreds of Freepers were warning about it then, and all have been vindicated as the DHS leviathan reaches out and strangles more and more of the public sphere.
That being said, comparisons to the Israeli airport security system are pretty asinine, Israel through SHin Bet internally, and MOssad and military intelligence internally and abroad maintain extensive spy netowrks with paid informants and make use of “duplicitous” means regularly to maintain security for the civilian population of Israel. This is allowable as the country has a unified military, law enforcement and political structure and sense of purpose. Will never work in the United States.
I do not want a GPS chip and to be fenced for my protection.
Anyhow. I am not here to weigh the merits of the fence VS a pat down.
I only wanted to highlight that we tend to be willing to submit if its “our guy in office”
There’s a no joking law?!!! Oy vey!
Re: Post 43
Where did you dig up that straw man quote you threw at me in response to my post 41?
It’s not from my post and it’s not in the referenced article.
Yeah, I just keep hearing the demoncrat’s refrain: we should federalize TSA (Team Sexual Assault) so that they’ll be as professional as the house police. ...
It’s from your homepage.
lol
It is even worse than most people know.
GOOGLE KURT HASKELL UNDEWEAR BOMBER
The TSA/Government is using the Underwear Bomber as an excuse to force us to choose between a virtual strip search or a full body search including placing their hands directly on our genitals, right?
Well, maybe we should know a little bit more about the Underwear Bomber episode then, does that make sense?
Eyewitnesses aboard Flight 253 from Amsterdam including KURT HASKELL report that the Underwear Bomber was “escorted” through the security process by a “Handler” aka Covert Operative, and that the U/B did not even HAVE A PASSPORT! HOW DOES SOMEONE GET ON AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT TO THE US WITHOUT A PASSPORT?
Furthermore, eyewitnesses also state that the U/B was completely expressionless the entire flight as if he was in a trance or drugged and that some other passenger videotaped the U/B the entire flight. And that even after the U/B gave himself 3rd degree burns on his legs and crotch he was still completely expressionless.
Ask yourself, why hasn’t the media bothered to tell you the whole story about this all of this?
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