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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

While Blue-Shirted TSA Agents Grope and X-Ray Passengers, Cargo Gets Almost No Scrutiny

Head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, recently told Bloomberg Television that cargo stored in the holds of airplanes gets little scrutiny. “Ordering 100 percent screening for air cargo is an easy thing to say, but it's probably not the best way to go. Cargo is infinitely more complicated and comes in infinitely more shapes and sizes than passengers." So, what are we to make of this. Terrorizing little children, sexually molesting women, and fondling the crotches of men including the elderly is what will actually make us safe?

Don't be too sure of that. At East Midlands Airport on October 29th British intelligence uncovered and disabled a bomb shipped from Yemen aboard a cargo plane. It was set to go off over the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and was removed from the plane three hours before it was set to go off. The French Interior Minister said the bomb was deactivated only seventeen minutes before planned detonation.  Now all this raises questions about the security aboard passenger flights. Exactly how carefully are luggage and packages screened at the airport and what's the chance of a bomb making it aboard your flight? Pretty significant, as a matter of fact. Watch the video below. Napolitano said that to inspect all cargo would require treaties with many countries. The British said that only packages originating in England are inspected because they accept the security procedures of other countries. In the wake of the bomb plot, however, the Brits have suspended cargo from Yemen and unaccompanied cargo from Somalia.




But the gropes and X-rays go on and some passengers are actually being arrested for refusing to cooperate in their molestation. San Diego resident Sam Wolanyk was arrested after he opted out of the X-ray and refused the pat down. Instead he took off his clothes. Underneath, he was wearing Calvin Klein Biker shorts and top which he said, “left nothing to the imagination. But that wasn’t enough for the TSA supervisor who was called to the scene and asked me to put my clothes on so I could be properly patted down.” Wolanyk was arrested by Harbor Police for two misdemeanors: violating code 7.01, failing to complete the security process and 7.14 (a) illegally recording the San Diego Airport Authority (on his i-phone).

So let's all repeat together. Homeland Security must X-ray and grope us to protect us from terrorists. And we must submit like good little lemmings obeying the elites who give the blue shirts their power over us. We are all potential terrorists. Meanwhile, Janet Napolitano will not say whether Muslim women will have to go through full body patdowns. There will be "adjustments" and "more to come." So will Muslim women in hajibs get to pat themselves down? Who knows?

And a big question looms over all this. Is it really about safety? Or is it about intimidating Americans to give up their constitutional freedoms and cooperate with police state tactics under the guise of security?

3 comments:

  1. THE SEXUAL SPHERE IS AN INTIMATE SPHERE, A PERSONAL SPHERE. IT IS PRIVATE AND SACRED. WHEN WE BECOME DESENSITIZED TO THIS FACT, AS IS THIS CASE OF MULTIPLE DAILY INTRUSIONS BY STRANGERS INTO OUR PERSONHOOD, WE LOSE A CERTAIN SENSE OF DIGNITY AND SELF WORTH. THAT ACCOMPLISHED, ANY ALIEN PHILOSOPHY CONCERNING THE VALUE OR NON-VALUE OF OUR CITIZENS CAN BE INTRODUCED. INDEED, I AM INTRIGUED THAT SO MANY CITIZENS BUY THE LINE THAT "INVASIVE SCREENING IS OUR ONLY ALTERNATIVE" AND SAY THAT BEING VIEWED NAKED OR INTIMATELY TOUCHED IS NO BIG DEAL. THE VALUES OF FIDELITY IN FAMILY LIFE SAY THE OPPOSITE. IT IS ABIG DEAL. I

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  2. I flew to Florida last week from Boston. I refused the naked body scan. ( I have a fake knee and have been doing relatively modest acceptable pat downs and wanding for years.) However, I experienced a new kind of - now standard- pat down (no electronic wanding) which really traumered me. I reflected about it on the plane. I determined that the government now requires as a condition to fly a two prong invasion of privacy. To surrender to the state the right to view our bodies naked or to touch our private parts in order to fly in a plane is to surrender to the government our most personal and deep rights- certainly equal to and part of our rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." If one concedes or authorizes this violation to themselves , then our country is compromised and its citizen's subject themselves to tyranny. That is, the government will have proved it can own us for a price- the price of flying. If it can get away with that, it can get away with telling us do do anything. And look at the message to our children: " Don't let anyone see you or touch you, except our own personal doctor only when necessary because he needs to get you better, and any TSA employee of the government- be they hetero-sexual, homosexual, bi-sexual, or transvestite…

    In my personal case, I needed to fly from Florida to my son's house in Utah for Thanksgiving. I made up my mind that I would put on some body armor- some feminine products, added on some depends, and a sequin "boustiere and sequin vest on top of that! ( I was attending a Dixieland Jazz festival which sold all sorts of jazzy items.) I spoke to a TSA supervisor, and advised her of my garb and my position. We practiced the strength of her touch on my hand and I authorized her to lightly touch the padding. I think I barely met the standard of non-violation. She was a cooperative TSA employee. I will dawn my armored colorful garb again and head for the airport in order to return home next week. If I do not meet the right supervisor, it is the train or a drive for me.

    First- I write to share my story and and help with a solution which worked-once. A friend told me that she had heard that Muslim women who wear a burqa are exempt from security violations. Secondly I write to quote the famous philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand's definition of the virtue of purity- so pertinent to the present situation. " Purity is that virtue which keeps the sexual secret hidden, as a dominion, the disposition of which remains in the hand of God." NOT THE STATE!

    If anyone wants to share this story please do so. You writers and computer wizzes, especially do so. I hope the government will back off this.

    Alice A Grayson
    November 25, 2010 3:03 PM

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  3. Thanks, Alice, I'm opting out of flying for now, but your advice is helpful for those who have no option.

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