Posted on 11/28/2010 1:49:49 PM PST by EveningStar
The latest controversy over Transportation Security Administration body scans and enhanced body pat-downs leaves no doubt: America truly is a nation of whiners.
A CBS News poll found that 81 percent of Americans support full-body airport scanning. That reasonable view is being drowned out by elements on the left and the right who love nothing better than to proclaim that they are victims.
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“And the current debate is merely a continuation of the one that was shouted down in 2001 when the Bush administration decided they liked big government and gave birth to this evil monstrosity, the HSA.”
Amen brother. Everyone is shouting Obama! Obama! Suckers.
No conservative thinks that having government looking at your genitals to see if you are a terrorist, while ignoring the Muslim women wearing a burka, is a good idea. Perhaps Mz. Saunders, like Gloria Alred, craves some sexual attention, but she certainly is no conservative.
this is the san fran chronicle. these folks are hoping for cavity searches be made mandatory
Does your Oprah-watching sister agree with the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade? Right to privacy, "it's a woman's body" and all that? ;-)
before writing such articles, instead of relying on ‘polls’, Ms. Saunders (and any other author, to be fair) should take her father and mother and children to the nearest airport and ‘opt out’ for the hands-on search. When she sees hands go down the front of her mom’s pants, her children removed from her sight to be groped by strangers, and her father’s artificial leg inspected, perhaps she will change her perspective.
Yeah, and Peggy Noonan used to get rave reviews here, too.
Debra Saunders is an idiot. She is “conservative” compared only to Maureen Dowd. But she’s not as good a writer.
She writes in the citywhose airport commission has rejected the TSA and uses private firms.
So was Diana Mitford.
That would place Mitford on the leftwing/progressive side of the political spectrum.
Although viewed by some as a conservative Republican, Saunders consistently opposed the War on Drugs. [2][3] She has also campaigned in her column for President Bush to issue more pardons and sentence commutations and supports same-sex marriage.[4] Saunders voted against Proposition 22 but was critical of the California Supreme Court decision which legalized same-sex marriage.[5]
This is a conservative?
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