Posted on 11/21/2010 6:28:15 PM PST by bd476
"At this point, the Transportation Security Administration, in consultation with our counter-terrorism experts, have indicated to me that the procedures that they've been putting in place are the only ones right now that they consider to be effective against the kind of threat that we saw in the Christmas Day bombing.
I understand people's frustrations ... and have asked TSA for assurances that what we're doing is the only way to assure the American people's safety ... One of the most frustrating aspects of this fight against terrorism is that it has created huge inconveniences.
Every week I meet with my counter-terrorism team and I'm constantly asking them whether what we're doing is absolutely necessary."
- President Obama stands by the TSA's increasingly-controversial security measures
that Boing Boing described as the "You choose: star in a porno shoot or let me squeeze your genitals policy," in which passengers are either scanned and seen nude, or they're groped and made to feel awkward. Obama admitted, however, that since he doesn't fly commercial, he's actually never experienced this inconvenience firsthand.
Hillary was illegally in possession of 900 FBI files. Laws don’t mean a thing to Democrats.
They are going to do what they are going to do, regardless.
You democrats have controlled the media forever.
You democrats have controlled the Congress since the 1930’s except for 14 years of that time period.
Man,up. This TSA is your baby. Obama will impeached. When our Republican heros show up over the hill they will impeach Obama. That will make your head explode. I'm sure your head exploded after Republicans gained 900 seats in State legislators! LOL
You democrat have created thousands of pages of socialist laws, that mandate thousands of government agencies that require spending and take away our freedom. That is called socialism which is tyranny and slavery and doesn't work. Your Obamacare created 3000 pages and hundreds of agencies alone which will turn into a hundred thousand pages of regulations where government bureaucrats can use discretion within those 100,000 pages. That is tyranny.
They’ll be cowed into making concessions, and then they’ll wait for the next opportunity to recover their lost turf. Just as Cap and Tax will not get made into law, but the EPA will enact it on their own while congress complains but does nothing. Just as the internet will not be regulated through law but through FCC fiat. You know the drill. The left no longer has to attack the courts to get what they want. They own the bureaucrats as well.
They’ll be cowed into making concessions, and then they’ll wait for the next opportunity to recover their lost turf. Just as Cap and Tax will not get made into law, but the EPA will enact it on their own while congress complains but does nothing. Just as the internet will not be regulated through law but through FCC fiat. You know the drill. The left no longer has to attack the courts to get what they want. They’ve owned the bureaucrats as well.
They’ll be cowed into making concessions, and then they’ll wait for the next opportunity to recover their lost turf. Just as Cap and Tax will not get made into law, but the EPA will enact it on their own while congress complains but does nothing. Just as the internet will not be regulated through law but through FCC fiat. You know the drill. The left no longer has to attack the courts to get what they want. They’ve owned the bureaucrats as well.
After reading all of your posts on ‘In Forum’, I smell something fishy about your intentions here...
a very interesting graphic
So you’re some Islamic terrorist in some Arab shithole watching CNN or the BBC and you think what the Americans are doing to themselves is the funniest thing since “My Mother the Camel” was the comedy hit.
Are do you raise the ante for even more hilarity?
They might have a prefereance for blowing up planes, but history has shown they pretty much love blowing up anything if some Infidals die in the process.
In fact you can make the Americans jump through hoops at minimal cost.
Blow up a bus or two, a train. Have Ahamid blow himself up in a Best Buy. So many choices so many virgins waiting.
If you follow Obama’s and the TSA’s justification for this crap, then why shouldn’t these invasive searches be instituted at the entrance to every mall and at random bus and train stations? Maybe on every corner?
...well, never mind, I don't want to get suspended, or banned.
Man,up. This TSA is your baby.
I'm not sure exactly who the "your" is supposed to be in "your baby", but I DO know that the TSA was formed in late 2001, and was placed under the control of the DHS in 2003. Perhaps you can explain how the democrats managed to do that when they controlled neither the congress nor the presidency at those times.
If you are smart enough to figure out how to check another person's posting history here at FR, I urge you to check mine. If you do so, and if you are sane, you will conclude that there is no way I am a democrat. Of course, it really should have been clear from my FIRST post to you that I am not a democrat, so...
Thug b@st@rds!
Thank you so much for your hard work it creating these links. Your work is a treasure of information. Thanks again bd.
Mr President, would you see it as a “necessary inconvenience” if Malia and Sasha were undergoing such a close inspection?
So Obama will be videotaped undergoing each of the TSA’s new screening procedures?
Outstanding links, bd, thank you for keeping track.
As far as the Communist Kenyan, he was greatly upset that any illegal aliens in AZ might be *inconvenienced* should they break the law and be asked to show ID papers!!!!
He had to stick his foul nose in our state’s business to support the criminals, but never the hard-working, tax-paying citizens.
Fascinating graphic.
Here is another set of interesting numbers:
>67,000 TSA employees
> 3000 TSA supervisory level staff earning an average of $105,000 p.a.
And how many others in DC are making bundles of money, selling scanners; selling ad programs to get people to love the scanners; selling ‘investigational studies’ of how the public is adapting, etc etc.
You’re in favor of the scanners and needing a passport to fly????
You’re on the wrong site. DU is here.....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Although you may not fare too well there either as they are pretty up in arms about it.
Great post! Funny is it not how I recall democrats screaming that Bush was taking away our freedoms. Now that Obama is actually doing it, case in point the TSA, these same democrats are silent.
So to these loony democrats the ONLY time their rights are threatened is when some in the White House has an R by their name. That is the way they think. A bunch of freaking idiots!
Didn't think so.
I am on the koran burning t-shirt design... will be complete soon!
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