Posted on 11/26/2010 12:04:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama is engaging in a relentless assault on our freedoms and constitutional government. The growing backlash against the new
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport screening procedures signifies that Americans finally may have had enough.
There is a grass-roots revolt against state-sanctioned sexual harassment. And who can blame the protesters? Children are stripped of their shirts, and their private parts are touched. Nuns and old ladies are groped by intrusive TSA agents. Breasts have been fondled. Men's crotches have been patted down. Full-body scanners show images of people naked - a clear violation of privacy and civil liberties.
The administration insists that the enhanced procedures are vital for national security. The rationale: Last year's underwear bomber nearly blew up a plane flying over Detroit. Hence, everyone's private parts are now the property of the federal government - at least when flying.
This is wrong and dangerous. Airport screening procedures have been a huge experiment in mass political correctness. For fear of insulting Muslims, the U.S. government has insisted that all Americans take off their shoes, pull out their belts and walk through metal detectors at airports. Americans have patiently put up with these inconveniences. But now, for many, enough is enough. "Don't touch my junk" has become a national rallying cry.
The central problem with modern airport security is that it falsely assumes that every person - each of the 7 billion people who inhabit the planet-is an equal terrorist threat. The 80-year-old Irish Catholic nun, the 3-year-old toddler, the 61-year-old bladder cancer survivor whose urine bag was punctured by TSA apparatchiks - all of them, according to Mr. Obama, are potential suicide bombers. They're not. To pretend they are is to engage in leftist multicultural fantasy....
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A brief but thorough description.
I've been thinking a lot about the dehumanizing effect of this. One thing that Americans have always been famous for is regarding themselves as individual human beings with the attendant God-given rights that go with being human. This is obviously a real threat to any collectivist scheme.
I do think these procedures are consciously intended to humiliate us, strip us of any sense of dignity or the protection that goes with being human, and make us view ourselves as just a herd of defenseless social units with no rights or dignity who are entirely at the mercy of the state and dependent on the decisions of the collective.
Of course, the fact that there was intelligence relating to the fact BEFORE the underwear bomber got on the plane. We are supposed to simply forget that the system failed.
LOL...he hasn't needed it so far. Even here on FR in so many ways we go along...to get along.
Regarding salty talk aimed at the president (or other officials) vs visits from the SS
Americans will do nothing to stop this slide into hell. We, yes we, have chosen to take this thing called, "the high road." While on this "high road" our Rights are picked off one by one.
Maybe they can be isolated in to a ‘small’ Democrat party.
Obama’s TSA has taken the first step towards being his “Armed Civilian Force, as strong as the military”.
I despise the word capitalism.
It is a pejorative invented in the mid 1800’s and made popular by Marx in Das Kaptal.
The word Capitalism denotes a negative and
expresses contempt or distaste of the free market.
Why do we use it?
So he despises private ownership of the fruits of ones
labor. But he doesn't mind if his Communist enablers like
Soros own everything.
Sometimes I swear these people are
pure evil.
When I saw this I went over to slashdot.org and looked to see if they were talking about it... not that I could see. HMMM!
Tease
Squeeze
Approve
Has anyone suggested a better name, like “marketism”?
Last week I saw where a 16 year old kid hid in the wheel
well of a commercial flight to Boston and fell to his
death.
Could have just as well been a bomb.
The Idea of giving up your Constitutional rights
for the illusion of safety is not only going to
lead to a tyrannical government but NO safety as well.
Who let the under ware bomber on a flight with NO
Visa?
From a foreign country as well.
How about we stop letting these terrorists fly in here
in the first place.
Tyranny will not protect you.
Ping
Ism's are bad.
Think,
Communism, leftism, socialism, feminism, atheism etc,etc,etc.
what do you think of hypnotism?
I wouldn't want that for an economy or government either.
Obama managed to hypnotize John McCain and a good chunk of the electorate a couple years ago.
A hypnotist practices hynotism, but why doesn’t a dentist practice dentism? Or a machinist practice machinism?
You may say the searches are tyrannous and unconstitutional but you're hardly persuasive when you say that they do not protect us. A bald assertion simply does not persuade. The fact that our intelligence and screening system broke down and let the Fruit of the Loom bomber get as far as Detroit tells me that I do not wish to fly with my life dependent solely on our State Department.
There is rarely a silver bullet in technology but technology can change the game when properly supported by intelligence and other kinds of screening, including racial profiling. The problem with relying on profiling alone is that once the terrorists understand that we are not searching grandmothers or toddlers in diapers they will put bombs in their own children's diapers as they have done in the past. They already found a couple in their 60s to try to carry bombs.
I do not understand the logic of saying that we should take high risks of passengers smuggling on bombs which can kill us because the system failed to detect a human in the wheel well who might have been a bomb instead. I don't understand why one wrong justifies another or one failure of one system means that we should abandon other parts of another system to detect bombs. I think the solution is to have better checks on wheel wells but not to abandon checking passengers.
That would be ridiculous.
“If a full fledge tyranny happens, it will catch those people off guard”
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If? You mean like IF Tuesday should somehow follow Monday? If what is going on now is not already “full fledge tyranny” then pray tell what would it look like?
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