Thursday, November 18, 2010

Your Choice: Virtual strip search or Groping.

Recently the TSA unveiled its new security procedures. If you are randomly selected you must go through the new enhanced scanner which can see through your clothes via x-rays or microwaves. The scanners are so detailed that they can tell if a man has been circumcized. If you don't like that, you can get an "enhanced pat-down" which involves the TSA worker feeling all parts of your body including your crotch.

I don't have time to write a flowing narrative on my thoughts, so I've providing it in bullet format.
  1. I don't like being given the choice between low-tech molestation (aka groping aka enhanced pat-down) or high-tech molestation with a dose of radiation.
  2. The TSA refuses to profile, which would be much more effective. Instead they put on security theater designed to fool people into thinking they were safe, while maintaining strict politcal correctness.
  3. Randomly searching people when there is a discernable pattern present is not effective. A random search would be appropriate if previous terrorist attacks were commited by people with the following characteristics: a 4 year old girl, a 35 year old woman, a 80 year old woman, 40 year old male, and a 73 year old male in a wheelchair. Is that true? No. Terrorists have all been single males between 20 and 40. (You can't necessarily determine someone's religion necessarily by looking at them, so that is not even included). 
  4. Janet Napolitano blatently lies when she says that images are deleted immediately, because it's been news that 35,000 were found saved.
  5. Janet Napolitano is snide when she says "people are free to other means of transportation if they don't want to be virtually strip searched or groped" (paraphrase of course). People aren't always free to choose any form of transportation. Some people have to travel to work.  Some people have to fly for medical treatments. Some people find it difficult to visit family 2,000 miles away by driving. What is next? Can a city say, "We can search your house without a warrant. If you don't like it, you are free to live outside the city limits." When did the 4th amendment stop being applicable?
  6. The Feds are reactionary. If terrorist hijack a plane with box cutters, they will ban box cutters, even though box cutters wouldn't be sufficent next time due to other passengers, an armed pilot, and a reinforced door.
  7. The Feds refuse to enforce border protection. Drug cartels and who knows what are coming into the US through the southern border. It's like have a window locked tight, but leaving the front door open.
  8. A lot of liberal groups that screamed when Bush was wiretapping phone calls to Yemen are surprisingly quiet when Obama's TSA goons are trying to frisk little girls. Why are liberals so willing to give up their rights when its a liberal making them do it?

For Reference, The 4th Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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