Reuters Poll: "Are new security screenings affecting your decision to fly?"

New security screenings like getting irradiated to get the virtual strip search and abusive patdowns that have already reduced many to tears.

It looks like MSMs are now at least obliged to write about the new TSA airport "security" measures, and Reuters is one of them. On its November 12 poll, it asked:

"Are you less likely to fly because of stepped-up security procedures such as full-body scans and patdowns?"

Here's the result as of 10:56 PM PST, 45,771 votes:

Yes - I will make alternate travel plans to avoid intrusive security scans and patdowns (96%, 44,101 Votes)

No - It is a necessary procedure to ensure terror plots are thwarted (2%, 1,077 Votes)

Undecided (2%, 593 Votes)

Oh people are just being unreasonable, aren't they? They are exaggerating, hysterical over nothing. It's all for the security to be groped in the crotch and we should be happy that they are doing their work so admirably.

I happened to recall September 2008, when Congress was debating what was to become TARP - bankster bailout. Anywhere from 90% to 99.99% of the taxpayers who bothered to write to their Congressmen and Senators were dead-set against it, and there were many such taxpayers that the Congressional offices of these elected officials were inundated with letters, phone calls and emails.

We know what happened then. The TARP bill was passed anyway.

Will this time be any different?

You would hope so. I would. As Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman said in his November 14 article titled "Government in our pants"

We will soon find out if there is a limit to the sacrifices of personal freedom that Americans will endure in the name of fighting terrorism. If we don't say no when they want to inspect and handle our private parts, when will we?
[Emphasis is mine]

Well, as several Lewrockwell.com contributors point out, the answer is "never", for a whole lot of Americans. For more of this disappointing response (actually, non-response) from the nation's Left and Right, read these:

Sibel Edmunds: The Not So Gradual Degradation of a Nation

William L. Anderson: Supporting Sexual Assault: The Left and the TSA

William Norman Grigg: The War Party’s Jihad in Oklahoma

Among the Left-leaning bloggers and writers, even Glenn Greenwald, who can be counted on to aggressively go after any abuse at the hand of the government, is totally silent on the topic. On the front page of Huffington Post, the only thing I can find on TSA is in the entertainment section; it is an article by David Wild, suggesting mood music for your next patdown experience at the airport. Just pretend it's your wife who's touching you, and enjoy the experience!

Among the conservatives, only the libertarians like people at Lewrockwell.com are openly speaking up against TSA and its latest antic to harass small people.

Another group that maintains total silence on the issue is the feminists. So what a "rape survivor was devastated" by being groped by a male TSA agent as part of the new and improved patdown procedure?

November 24 is National Opt Out Day. Let's reclaim our dignity.

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