I understand the need to keep our country safe from those who want to do us harm. But perhaps they should first be identified. Let's start with those who have overtly expressed the desire to destroy America and our way of life. Not because, as the elite Left believes, President Bush wasn't nice enough to them, but because we are the Infidels, and nothing except converting to Islam and Sharia law will change that.
Are these recent examples on the part of the TSA necessary to keep us safe? A retired teacher and cancer survivor was left covered in urine after a TSA pat-down. A flight attendant and breast cancer survivor was horrified when forced to remove her prosthetic breast during a pat-down. While I'm not a fan of nipple rings, should a TSA agent force a woman to cut off her nipple rings with plyers before she could board a plane?
Hillary Clinton laughingly admitted she won't submit to a pat-down if she doesn't have to. I didn't think it was all that funny..
I'm not blaming the TSA employees. I'm sure they are just following the rules laid down by their higher ups. The buck should stop at Janet Napolitano and President Obama, both of whom have the power to adopt more effective procedures such as have been successfully employed by EL AL Israel Airlines.
KT McFarland who held national security posts in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan Administrations as an aide to Dr. Henry Kissinger on the NSC Staff, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee Staff, and later Pentagon spokesman, suggests
"Why don’t we start profiling for terrorists and stop trying to put everyone from toddlers to granny through the same security procedures at airports? We’re wasting money, time and the people’s patience in an effort to be politically correct. In the end, it’s not keeping us any safer; if anything it’s making us less safe since it’s diverting resources that could otherwise be used on better intelligence gathering, or developing screening devices for cargo on commercial and civilian aircraft, or checking containers before they enter U.S. ports."As noted below in Charles Krauthammer's, "Don't touch my junk" , "This time you have gone too far, Big Bro'.
"Don't touch my junk is the anthem of the modern man, the Tea Party patriot, the late-life libertarian, the midterm election voter. Don't touch my junk, Obamacare - get out of my doctor's examining room, I'm wearing a paper-thin gown slit down the back. Don't touch my junk, Google - Street View is cool, but get off my street. Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?"Would Oprah reconsider her endorsement of Obama if she had to be patted down? The answer is probably not, but we will never know because she will never have to be patted down. But YOU will .. unless more resourceful, less intrusive methods are adopted by wiser individuals more concerned with protecting us than with political correctness.
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