TSA Stands for Thorough Sexual Assault

[Sandra]

TSA Stands for Thorough Sexual Assault

The TSA will see you now -- one way or another

Anger and Rebellion are the name of the game as resistance intensified this week from the flying public and airline industry employees against the new Transportation Safety Administration
(TSA) "enhanced screening procedures" (a.k.a. sexual assault). TSA and
federal government officials insisted that the measures are essential
and the harassment will continue until morale improves. For your safety,
of course.

The nationwide outrage is due to multiple cases of TSA abuse coming to light, with stories of young children groped, exposed private parts and screeners' hands going down flyers' pants, among other
outrages. Lawsuits have been filed against the TSA, and some members of
Congress have expressed concern that the TSA has gone too far and may
have to be investigated.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wrote an op-ed in USA Today titled "Scanners are safe, pat-downs discreet." Nothing to see here, folks, just move through the machine. She argued, "The deployment of this technology and the implementation of these
measures represent the evolution of our national security architecture,
an evolution driven by intelligence, risk and a commitment to be one
step ahead of those who seek to do us harm."

Unfortunately, the good secretary failed to point out that "those who seek to do us harm" are almost exclusively young Muslim males, and, logically, they should be the first ones profiled for
additional screening.

Instead, the TSA pretends that we're all potential threats and, therefore, we all get to enjoy either the mechanized body scans or the groping -- or, as Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) dismissively
calls the latter, the "love pats." If you think the TSA scanners now
being deployed around the nation -- thanks to $73 million in Obama money
-- are not invasive, you might reconsider after viewing this virtual strip search, which is a low resolution reproduction of a typical high resolution TSA scan.

There are three primary manufacturers of body scanners purchased by the TSA: one made by L-3 Communications, one from American Science and Engineering and one from Rapiscan. The scanner
manufacturers are all located in leftist congressional districts
in Massachusetts and California, those represented by Demo Reps. Ed
Markey, Niki Tsongas and Jane Harman. Perhaps this is mere coincidence,
but we doubt it.

Obviously, airline security is an important issue, but there are better ways to achieve it without trampling the Fourth Amendment or encouraging uniformed personnel to commit what in any other
circumstance would be prosecuted as felonious assault. The Israelis,
for many years the prime targets of jihadi terrorism, have one of the
best airline security records in the world, but they don't resort to
wide-scale screening. Using intelligence analysis and common sense, they
profile people, not things, allowing them to focus on the most probable
threats with minimal disturbance of those who aren't likely to be
terrorists. While that might offend the sensibilities of travelers who
fit the terrorist profile, at least grandma and the grandkids would be
free from abusive TSA gropers.

[Sandra]

Yep, unless people stand together and demand this stops. I know for a fact ground crews do not get any pat downs or scanned, they have a special entrance, so how safe are our airports really?