TSA New Pat Down… Hands in Your Pants
Nov 16th, 2010 by David Anderson
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is being replaced by President Obama with Don’t Ask Just Feel. Can we choose not to have a same sex pat down? If you are gay, the TSA is better than some dates. Is anyone going to ask what the point is? I have no issue with the body scanner. I do wonder who is developing the alternative policy and why. It seems like a fascist manipulation to pressure people into going into scanners that still have long term health questions. Feeling up three year olds does not make us safer. A search is reasonable if you have suspicion even of children who set off the alarm because our enemies would be booby trap kids. The question is how to proceed.
Larry Flynt must have designed this policy.
I’m flying out of the country very soon. I plan on checking this out, since I’ll be traveling with my children. I’ll write on this after I return. No blogging on vacation!
Michael Graham of the Boston Herald suggests Janet Napolitano, who assures us his stuff is only standard fare to keep us all safe, goes FIRST–undergoing a full body scan and something like the “hands-down-the-pants” pat down.
Then put the Napolitano show on TV as an illustrative example of the lengths she herself would go to in order to ensure all Americans are safe.
Make that “this” stuff.
All this scanning, x-raying and groping can be circumvented by one of those deranged Islamopaths with a bomb or bomb making materials stored where the sun-don’t-shine (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/item_hKiF3TDJkgYItnBQkJXmTN). If he or she can keep their cool (if not contain their laughter as TSA agents feel up nuns, 3 year-olds with mothers and grandpas) then its only a matter of getting to the lavatory after the plane is aloft to make things go ‘boom’! That is, unless we implement profiling as an appropriate tactic to thwart said Islamopaths, so we don’t have to molest the innocent.
“so we don’t have to molest the innocent.”
Do we have to molest the guilty?
Well, at least Minner and Mulkowski can travel in peace.
From Jeffrey goldberg, the funniest take on the TSA ludicrousness I’ve yet to read. Be sure to read all his short articles on the subject, listed in the text of the linked piece. I laughed until I cried. A bit riskque’, but what else is to be expected when the subject is what it is??
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/tsa-opt-out-day-now-with-a-superfantastic-new-twist/66545/