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The TSA: We Do Chicken Right!
By Ron Hart
Government, which grows not out of necessity but by insisting upon itself,
needs to slow down. We need to revisit the balance among freedom, cost and
security and not continue to double down on bad policies.
The latest is the TSA's (stands for "Thousands Standing Around") directive to
be more intrusive in its new "enhanced pat-down" policy. Maybe the TSA seeks to
expand its self-serving role, or maybe the unionized agents of the behemoth TSA
were just getting bored and wanted a better way to feel up women and explore
some new boundaries. Either way, it is unnecessary.
This is the part that will scare Juan Williams: the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) has told the government - and Muslims - that this procedure
violates their religious rights. Now it looks like our government will back off
from frisking and even body scanning Muslim women. When female Islamic
terrorists blow themselves up, I don't think they are rewarded with 72 virgin
men in Paradise. I think they would prefer one good man who cuddles and picks
up after himself. We have these in America; they are called gay men.
Since the TSA won't be able to aggressively pat down Muslims, they will now
have more time to pat down Irene Smith, the 62-year-old, retired school teacher
from Canton, Ohio. Irene, this is your lucky day! If you are subjected to ten
"random" pat downs in a row, the eleventh one is free!
In a feeble attempt to justify her decision, Secretary of Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano said "women can opt for a same gender pat-down," no doubt
something she would like to do herself to other women. So ladies, your choice
of who gets to feel you up is either a creepy male who has not even bought you
a cocktail yet or a woman in comfortable shoes.
The new body scans are no less troubling. It was recently reported that the
U.S. Marshals Service admitted to storing images from courthouse body scans.
The TSA is suspected of doing the same, so when the Obama administration
started its big push against obesity, it was because they wanted to look at
better bodies.
In lieu of full body scans or pat-downs, and to accommodate Muslims, Nancy
Pelosi will have her personal California feng shui guy look passengers in the
eye and read their Karma. As we know, liberals are OK with their policies being
a disaster as long as their stated intentions are good.
To recap the new TSA intrusion, Muslims will be subjected to less security, we
average Americans will get more and, as an added bonus, even longer lines at
airports.
When the TSA was formed, mall cops from all over our nation had their salaries
and job security tripled by becoming government union workers and Democratic
voters.
The TSA seems accountable to no one. Increasingly big brother-ish airports have
been running a scary message over their PA systems which begins ominously,
"Effective immediately: By order of the Department of Homeland Security
Transportation Security Administration, liquids or gels weighing more than
three ounces cannot be carried on planes�." Why have they run that for over
four years now? This from the same TSA that does not provide shoe horns, and
which brought us the confusing color-coded threat levels. If I have it
straight, we are supposed to worry when we hit the "lavender" level, but that
could be wrong.
If authorities want to assist the flying public, they should taser anyone
behind you who is a seat-kicker. Flying is hard enough. I don't like being
around kids on airplanes. With all the whining, drooling, fidgeting and
childishness, I just feel I am setting a bad example for them.
Why we are so afraid to try to change the TSA? The high-handed,
Obama/Pelosi/Reid-like, "it's for your own good" attitude they display somehow
discourages inquiry into what the heck they are really doing. Such is the
nature of a government bureaucracy or a corrupt church: avow your moral
justification and superiority and let no one question what you do.
Sadly, our government, founded on liberty and tasked with "providing for the
common defense," is being slowly taken down by deluded notions of political
correctness while bestowing equal rights on our enemies. Common sense - and our
safety - are being sacrificed.
If there is a simpler, less intrusive and more efficient way to do something,
we should try it. Our country was founded by a bunch of folks who thought there
was a better way.
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