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TSA pat-downs prove it - Americans are whiners
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 23, 2010 | Debra J. Saunders

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: sanfranciscovalues; tsa; tsapervs
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To: dr_who

“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.


81 posted on 11/28/2010 3:36:20 PM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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To: EveningStar

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.


82 posted on 11/28/2010 3:36:20 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: EveningStar

this is the san fran chronicle. these folks are hoping for cavity searches be made mandatory


83 posted on 11/28/2010 3:55:15 PM PST by sten
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To: Dizzy Lizzy
I got in a debate with my Oprah-watching sister about this and she was even fine with body cavity searches. All to FEEL safe, you know. She pointed out that my husband, who has to travel for his job, should just just go along with the rules. And she votes! (For Obama)

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? ;-)

84 posted on 11/28/2010 3:55:51 PM PST by arasina (So there.)
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To: Right Angler
How is flying in an airplane a ‘privilege’ any more than going to a movie. It is a service that you pay for. Driving a car, OTOH, is a true privilege. You have to take a driving test, pass physical requirements, and obey the law. Yet the policeman or trooper who stops a driver for a violation is under more constraints than an uneducated, minimally trained TSA.
85 posted on 11/28/2010 4:25:45 PM PST by ArmyTeach (Vincit qui se vincitfy)
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To: EveningStar

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.


86 posted on 11/28/2010 4:28:29 PM PST by blueplum
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To: EveningStar
Before you jump to conclusions, Debra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist whose articles frequently receive praise here at Free Republic.

Yeah, and Peggy Noonan used to get rave reviews here, too.

87 posted on 11/28/2010 4:42:04 PM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: EveningStar

Debra Saunders is an idiot. She is “conservative” compared only to Maureen Dowd. But she’s not as good a writer.


88 posted on 11/28/2010 4:45:00 PM PST by livius
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To: EveningStar

She writes in the citywhose airport commission has rejected the TSA and uses private firms.


89 posted on 11/28/2010 8:34:17 PM PST by NoLibZone (Homosexuals oppose diversity.)
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To: EveningStar
Before you jump to conclusions, Debra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist

So was Diana Mitford.

90 posted on 11/29/2010 8:48:00 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
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To: Oztrich Boy
Diana Mitford married Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists.

That would place Mitford on the leftwing/progressive side of the political spectrum.

91 posted on 11/29/2010 8:50:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: EveningStar
From your source:

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?

92 posted on 11/29/2010 8:52:21 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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