CNN: "Arrogantly Complaining" About TSA Security May Land You on "Love Pat"

That's how the government trains people to be just "right". And remember, this added so-called "security" at the nation's airports (and bus stations and railroad stations) came on Prez Obama's order after the suspicious printer ink cartridge was allegedly shipped from Yemen and addressed to Chicago-area synagogues.

Printer cartridge from Yemen => sexual assaults at the airports in the USA

Do you see a connection? I don't.

CNN warns you (4/15/2011) that:

TSA security looks at people who complain about ... TSA security

Washington (CNN) -- Don't like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.

Arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively. And, when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny.

CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 "behavioral indicators" that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially "high risk" passengers at the nation's airports.

Many of the indicators, as characterized in open government reports, are behaviors and appearances that may be indicative of stress, fear or deception. None of them, as the TSA has long said, refer to or suggest race, religion or ethnicity.

But one addresses passengers' attitudes towards security, and how they express those attitudes.

It reads: "Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures."

....But a civil liberties organization said the list should not include behavior relating to the expression of opinions, even arrogant expressions of opinion.

"Expressing your contempt about airport procedures -- that's a First Amendment-protected right," said Michael German, a former FBI agent who now works as legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "We all have the right to express our views, and particularly in a situation where the government is demanding the ability to search you."

"It's circular reasoning where, you know, I'm going to ask someone to surrender their rights; if they refuse, that's evidence that I need to take their rights away from them. And it's simply inappropriate," he said.

What the hell does "arrogant" contempt mean? Arrogant to whom? TSA workers? When they are the ones who are arrogant and contemptible toward us?

I'm sure you have seen this disgusting video of a black female TSA employee patting down a blond 6-year-old girl, putting her hands inside the girl's pants.

And the country rolls over. An accepted part of being in the land of the free.

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Big Sis's TSA Descends on Cowboys Stadium

In contrast to courageous Egyptians who finally said enough is enough, here in the US we are expected to rat on the fellow spectators and meekly submit to pat-downs at the Super Bowl 2011, which is tomorrow at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas under frigid, wintry sky.

From Star Telegram (2/4/2011):

As part of the increased security surrounding the Super Bowl, NFL and federal authorities are limiting what fans can bring to Cowboys Stadium.

Everyone entering the stadium must pass through a magnatometer, such as those used at airports, and get a patdown as part of the screening process. The majority of fans will enter through checkpoints on the east side of Cowboys Stadium.

Small bags are allowed, but will be searched, and jackets will be X-rayed.

Not allowed

Items fans can't bring into Cowboys Stadium:

Weapons, mace/pepper spray, fireworks

Camcorders, tripods, camera cases and binocular cases

Umbrellas, strollers

Grills, tents, poles, sticks

Banners, noisemakers, horns, beach balls, Frisbees, laser lights and pointers

Containers of any type, coolers of any size, backpacks

Bottles, cans, hairspray

Allowed

Items fans can bring into Cowboys Stadium:

Small cameras and binoculars, but not camera cases and binocular cases

Small bags

Items purchased in Fan Plaza on Game Day

Source: NFL

This is such a free country.

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In-Your-Face SOTU: Obama Mocks TSA Pat-Downs

Or I should say he mocked those of us outraged by the TSA groping and molesting and harassment, which are all being done under HIS order.

"... it will be faster than flying – without the pat-down."

So the President of the United States is promoting high-speed rail so that the rest of us (remember, he is exempt) can go from place to place without being molested by the government. That's inspiring, isn't it?

The text was in the speech draft, so either he or his 20-something former campaign worker-turned speech writer actually had written it. As what? A joke?

Watch the video. For a moment or two, even the Dems in Congress weren't sure whether to laugh and applaud, which they eventually did. What's there to laugh? What's so funny? What am I missing?

This president's idea of being funny is so foreign to me that I've long concluded that he is indeed an alien, a space alien just like that former prime minister of Japan who babbled about a foreigner-friendly Japan when he couldn't even take decent care of the citizens.

For those of us with earth-bound humor, here's Jessie Ventura suing the TSA.

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Women Feel Safer after a Rape Victim (a Woman) is Hurled to the Floor by TSA Agents

Sorry to bring a disgusting piece of news on the Christmas Eve, but Ms. Gwen Washington, a black woman, and Emily Protine, a white woman, felt a little safer seeing Ms. Claire Hirschkind handcuffed and being dragged 25 yards across the floor by the TSA agents at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

I'm almost completely losing any shread of hope that I still have for the country.

From KVUE in Austin, Texas:

Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights. One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.

Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated. She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.

Hirschkind said because of the device in her body, she was led to a female TSA employee and three Austin police officers. She says she was told she was going to be patted down.

"I turned to the police officer and said, 'I have given no due cause to give up my constitutional rights. You can wand me,'" and they said, 'No, you have to do this,'" she said.

Hirschkind agreed to the pat down, but on one condition.

"I told them, 'No, I'm not going to have my breasts felt,' and she said, 'Yes, you are,'" said Hirschkind.

When Hirschkind refused, she says that "the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me. I was crying by then. They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security."

... Other travelers KVUE talked to say they empathize with Hirschkind, but the law is the law.

"I understand her side of it, and their side as well, but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it," said Gwen Washington, who lives in Killeen.

"It's unfortunate that that happened and she didn't get to fly home, but it makes me feel a little safer," said Emily Protine.

Dragging a 56-year old woman across the floor, handcuffed, is for "our protection" that should make us "feel a little safer".

Get that? For our protection.

One minor point: I do not think it is "the law". If it is the law, when did Congress pass it? Congress didn't pass a law that says you have to be groped in order to board a plane. This is a "regulation" that suddenly appeared after the midterm election, concocted by the Department of Homeland Security under the direction from the Obama White House.

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Drudge and Alex Jones 1, Big Sis and Obama 0

November 24 was a National Opt Out Day at the nation's airports in protest against the new TSA sexual harassment aka naked body scans and heavy, intrusive patdowns with a dirty pair of latex gloves.

It was apparently a non-event; no serious disruption was reported. And statist MSM pundits who welcome and support fondling by strangers so that they can feel "secure" say the protesters were a minority paid by Koch brothers to stir up trouble for the hard-working government.

Uh huh.

It turns out that the day was a non-event because the TSA backed down at the busy airports. Naked body scanners were turned off, and intrusive groping was replaced by a regular patdown.

Matt Drudge and Alex Jones won in their relentless campaign against the TSA.

From Infowars.com:

Despite the establishment media presiding over another mass hoax in claiming that Americans were completely happy with invasive airport security measures, contrary to polls showing a majority in opposition, and that the national opt out day was a failure, the fact that the TSA was forced to change its policy by mothballing naked body scanners and curtailing aggressive pat downs clearly goes to show that the man who almost single-handedly drove the issue, Matt Drudge, fought the TSA and he won.

The big networks and the so-called progressive borg hive, who instantly tried to spin the lack of delays at airports over Thanksgiving as proof that the opt-out protest had failed, conveniently failed to mention the fact that major airports across the country had deliberately mothballed their naked body scanners in a crass PR ploy aimed at deflating the momentum behind the demonstration.

Early reports began to pour in from Twitter users who said that body scanner machines were roped off and out of use in airports such as LAX, Seattle, San Jose and Columbus, Ohio. They also said that pat downs had reverted back to the standard procedure and were not the new grope downs that the TSA had announced a couple of weeks before.

The New Jersey Star-Ledger subsequently reported that, “The majority of Newark’s full-body scanners were idle throughout much of the day, depriving most passengers of the chance to opt out of the controversial screening procedure even if they had wanted to.”

At the nation’s busiest airport, Atlanta-Hartsfield, there was,”limited, if any, use of the controversial full-body scanners,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Later reports confirmed that, the TSA had “backed down and resorted to using the old screening procedures — metal detectors and less-intrusive pat-downs.”

...In addition, many people took part in the protest by avoiding airports altogether. Traffic was jammed on the highways, with the Massachusetts Turnpike playing host to a 30-mile hold-up. According to AAA, more drivers were on the road than ever before during a Thanksgiving holiday.

The establishment media echo chamber attempted to pull a hoax by claiming that the vast majority of Americans were completely happy with having their genitals groped by federal goons and naked pictures taken of their children. In reality, after Drudge relentlessly drove the issue, polls of Americans that were previously in support of body scanners had reversed dramatically and the ACLU received an avalanche of new complaints.

Janet Napolitano, aka Big Sis, and Obama have both said that naked body scanners and intrusive patdowns are the only way to prevent terrorist attacks.

Apparently, PR consideration was more important than prevention of terror attacks.

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Janet Napolitano Bans Parcels from Japan in Response to the Ink Cartridge Bomb from Yemen

This is beyond absurd.

The ink cartridge bomb was allegedly shipped from Yemen. And what does Janet Napolitano do, in addition to having the TSA sexually harass and molest air travelers in the US?

She bans non-commercial parcels from Japan sent via Japan Post.

Mr. Ken Adachi at Educate-Yourself says Janet Napolitano has quietly set up a new regulation on November 17 that:

blocks the shipping of any NON COMMERCIAL parcel into the United States that weighs more than 0.9 pounds (under 16 ounces) without first supplying the Social Security number (or taxpayer ID number) of the RECEPIENT of the package (and it's likely that the new DHS shipping restriction will soon also apply to detailed ID requirements on the part of the person sending the package as well).

The non-bomb in the ink cartridge was from Yemen, and Napolitano goes and stops parcels sent from friends and relatives in Japan to their fiends and relatives in the US. How is that going to stop "terrorism"?

I checked the Japan Post website, but the announcement says nothing about supplying the Social Security number of the recipient. Instead, it says any item mailed by air that weighs more than 16 ounces will be suspended for shipment until further notice:

November 12, 2010

Japan Post Service Company (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo-to, Representative Director: Shinichi Nabekura) has announced that, due to the elimination of air flights for the delivery of postal items over 453 grams (16 ounces) in weight following the recent anti-terrorism airport security enforcement on the part of the USA, these postal items will be suspended for shipment for the time being starting from November 17, 2010.

We will make a relevant announcement once the situation changes.

There goes my end-of-the-year package I've been waiting for from my relatives in Japan.

This new harassment from the DHS applies to air parcels from other countries, not just Japan. What's really irritating about it is that it targets ordinary people by restricting the application of the rule to non-commercial shipment.

Well, what else could we expect from the corporatist administration like this one?

There are alternatives, albeit more expensive than Japan Post. So far, Fedex and UPS are not stopping the shipment from Japan, and Fedex doesn't require the Social Security number of the recipient as long as the package is a gift and that the declared value of the content is less than $100.

Kuroneko Yamato, DHL Japan require the Social Security number of the recipient, but they are not stopping the shipment.

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"Feminists" on TV in Full Support of TSA, Denounce Critics as "Terrorists"

In the incredible, ongoing TSA saga, I've been waiting to hear from two particular entities on the left side of the political spectrum: one is Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com, a constitutional attorney who in the past never failed to defend the rights of individuals against the tyranny of the state; the other is the feminists.

Glenn Greenwald finally spoke out against two despicable writers at The Nation magazine, in the article titled "Anatomy of a journalistic smear".

And I finally heard from the other entity, feminists, or at least I think that what they want to pass themselves as such. Their view is fully expressed in the video clip below, which I found in the post by Thomas DiLorenzo at LRC Blog. This particular group of middle-aged women as you see in the clip below includes several who walked out of the TV set over the Muslim terrorist remark by Bill O'Reilly.

Do they defend women and men who suffered sexual abuse in the past and who refuse naked scanning and highly intrusive patdowns? Hell no.

Are they indignant that the TSA had a woman scanned and then patted down in the groin because she had a sanitary napkin on? Hell no.

Instead, they loudly pronounce people who refuse the scan and end up in the heavy patdown as terrorists! Why? In their feminine logic (oxymoron, I know), these people, by refusing the scan, are tying up the valuable TSA resource by forcing the TSA to individually pat them down, while some real terrorists may snuck by them unnoticed.

What's the big deal, they all say.

It is by far the most disgusting video I've seen so far on the topic.

If it is the Democratic government doing the molestation, particularly under the charming (to them at least) black president, it's all fine and dandy to them. This particular feminist lawyer who claims to fight "on behalf of victims whose rights have been violated" announced she thoroughly enjoyed the heavy patdown.

Do you see the message they are sending to the rest of us? If we are as sophisticated, educated as they are, we should be enjoying the sexual abuse. Just enjoy the occasion.

Much like we've been pushed to appreciate abstract paintings (now we know the CIA was behind the promotion), twelve-tone and atonal music ("because all notes are created equal"; and this was another CIA job), which to many unsophisticated people including myself look and sound like a crap.

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Japanese TV Does TSA

From Karl Denninger's Market Ticker.

We are the butt joke of Japanese television.

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Ron Paul on TSA Sexual Abuse: Stand Up and Resist

“If we tolerate this,” Paul said, “there’s something wrong with us.” He added that the American people deserve to be humiliated and demeaned by the government if they refuse to stand up and resist."

With TSA agents putting their hands under the passengers' pants, under their underwear, zipping down the kid's trousers, groping the baby's crotch, people are finally waking up (maybe, I hope) to the monstrocity that was created after 9/11 and has been nurtured by the government under Bush and Obama. It is Obama who has blown it out of proportion for some unexplicable reason, and here we are, being treated worse than terrorists in a procedure that purportedly helps us from terrorists. (I don't think TSA or anyone wants to molest Taliban or Al-Qaeda fighters in the crotch.)

Congressman Ron Paul sure hopes so too, that people are waking up. In his interview with Alex Jones, he said:

Paul said due to pervasive coverage of TSA abuses by the corporate media, the American people are now beginning to ask serious questions about government conduct.

“I think it’s a healthy wake-up call to a lot of Americans,” Paul told Jones. “I just hope they can work that in to the whole concept of what’s been going on with our country for a long time – the government is too big and intrusive and abuses our rights and they do the things the shouldn’t be doing and they forget about the things they were instructed to do.”

Paul said he has been subjected to the enhanced pat down, aka sexual assault, because he has metal on his knees. I wonder if TSA has the list of people to conduct this sexual assault on - anyone who's critical of the government in any way.

For the entire article at Infowars.com, click here.

I am still waiting for any feminist group to speak out against TSA's nude scanners and sexual assaults at the nation's airports. I am also waiting for the very first TSA employee to say no to molesting the total strangers.

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TSA Horror Stories Mount

TSA Groping Leaves Bladder Cancer Survivor Humiliated and Covered In Urine

San Diego man arrested after refusing TSA's naked scan and pat-downs and taking off his clothes except his briefs

An elementary school teacher was scanned AND patted down heavily because of a tissue and a hair band in her pocket.

I should say we are finally starting to hear about them now, though they've been out there for us to see if we wanted to ever since TSA came into existence in 2001.

This young mother had her toddler son taken away by the TSA agent in Atlanta to be searched, because his pacifier set off the alarm.

I already posted the Prez reaction to TSA sex crime. He says he "understands", and he says he already "told the U.S. Transportation Security Administration: "You have to constantly refine and measure whether what we're doing is the only way to assure the American people's safety. And you also have to think through, are there ways of doing it that are less intrusive."

And he's happy with the TSA's answer that there are no such ways. So he lectured and asked questions. Oh how professor-like, or attorney-like... Oh wait, he was.

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Thanksgiving Present from TSA to Small People

who can't afford a private jet and who are not the member of Congress.

TSA will be happy to mete out $11,000 fine, interrogation by the local police and TSA, and possible arrest anyone who refuses to go through the naked body scanner or "love pats" aka sexual assault by the TSA thugs.

From Sun Sentinel:

If you don't want to pass through an airport scanner that allows security agents to see an image of your naked body or to undergo the alternative, a thorough manual search, you may have to find another way to travel this holiday season.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and also will not be permitted to simply leave the airport.

That person will have to remain on the premises to be questioned by the TSA and possibly by local law enforcement. Anyone refusing faces fines up to $11,000 and possible arrest.

"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami.

Koshetz said such passengers would be questioned "until it is determined that they don't pose a threat" to the public.

Palm Beach Sheriff's Office spokesperson Teri Barbera said PBSO deputies stationed at the airport would become involved when requested by the TSA.

So, if you refuse to be seen virtually naked, or if you refuse to be molested by a total stranger in a blue uniform, you are a terrorist.

An amazing number of Liberals and Neocons are in total support of this public molestation. They either hope to be molested by a cute TSA girl, or they want to put on some nice music to get in the "mood". I just wonder how they are going to persuade their children.

And this clueless, tone-deaf head of the state says he "understands".

Understand what?

That his thugs at TSA following his order are in violation of the 4th Amendment?

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Ron Paul: Enough Is Enough

Congressman Ron Paul has introduced HR 6416, the American Traveler Dignity Act.

He singles out Michael Chertoff. Good. It also leads to George Soros and Warren "Medal of Freedom" Buffett (see my post).

From Lewrockwell.com:

Before the US House of Representatives, November 17, 2010

Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation’s airports. We have seen the videos of terrified children being grabbed and probed by airport screeners. We have read the stories of Americans being subjected to humiliating body imaging machines and/or forced to have the most intimate parts of their bodies poked and fondled. We do not know the potentially harmful effects of the radiation emitted by the new millimeter wave machines.

In one recent well-publicized case, a TSA official is recorded during an attempted body search saying, “By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights.” I strongly disagree and am sure I am not alone in believing that we Americans should never give up our rights in order to travel. As our Declaration of Independence states, our rights are inalienable. This TSA version of our rights looks more like the “rights” granted in the old Soviet Constitutions, where freedoms were granted to Soviet citizens – right up to the moment the state decided to remove those freedoms.

The incident of the so-called “underwear bomber” last Christmas is given as justification for the billions of dollars the federal government is spending on the new full-body imaging machines, but a Government Accountability Office study earlier this year concluded that had these scanners been in use they may not have detected the explosive material that was allegedly brought onto the airplane. Additionally, there have been recent press reports calling into question the accuracy and adequacy of these potentially dangerous machines.

My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same laws as the rest of us.

Imagine if the political elites in our country were forced to endure the same conditions at the airport as business travelers, families, senior citizens, and the rest of us. Perhaps this problem could be quickly resolved if every cabinet secretary, every member of Congress, and every department head in the Obama administration were forced to submit to the same degrading screening process as the people who pay their salaries.

I warned at the time of the creation of the TSA that an unaccountable government entity in control of airport security would provide neither security nor defend our basic freedom to travel. Yet the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats then in Congress willingly voted to create another unaccountable, bullying agency – in a simple-minded and unprincipled attempt to appease public passion in the wake of 9-11. Sadly, as we see with the steady TSA encroachment on our freedom and dignity, my fears in 2001 were justified.

The solution to the need for security at US airports is not a government bureaucracy. The solution is to allow the private sector, preferably the airlines themselves, to provide for the security of their property. As a recent article in Forbes magazine eloquently stated, “The airlines have enormous sums of money riding on passenger safety, and the notion that a government bureaucracy has better incentives to provide safe travels than airlines with billions of dollars worth of capital and goodwill on the line strains credibility.” In the meantime, I hope we can pass this legislation and protect Americans from harm and humiliation when they choose to travel.

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And They've Come Out Swinging ...

The Democratic leadership and the White House. The November election a humbling experience? Hardly, judging by the so-called "lame duck session" agendas.

It feels similar to January this year, when the Prez got upset over Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts Senate election and started throwing temper tantrum.

In the current Democratic temper tantrum, we have [of no particular order]:

1. Nancy Pelosi is becoming the House Minority Leader;

2. TSA adopts a new and improved screening procedure that's nothing but sexual assault, and which has been ordered by the Prez;

3. And several equally tone-deaf Senators call the aggressive patdowns as "love pats".

4. Harry Reid and Hispanic caucus want to push through the DREAM Act that would give citizenship to illegal Hispanic immigrants who go to college or serve in the military;

5. The presidential commission on debt reduction propose that the federal government keep spending at the current elevated level and calls it a "reduction";

6. Another commission of some sort proposes 6.5% national sales tax to "reduce deficit";

7. Big Democratic supporter Warren Buffett thanks the government for enriching him and his company further through the fiscal and monetary policies adopted in the last 2 years;

8. Chris Dodd's Committee trying its damnest best to bury the "Foreclosuregate" as quickly as possible, while state AGs are said to be close to a deal with banks so that the banks can smoothly and quickly foreclose and make tons of money in the process;

No one is in control.

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Alex Jones: TSA Now Putting Hands Down Your Pants

It gets better by the hour.

Remember, this is supposedly because of an ink cartridge from Yemen on a cargo plane.

Also remember that this is what the President of the US wants.

Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones at Prisonplanet.com reports:

The TSA’s invasive new screening measures include officers literally putting their hands down people’s pants if they are wearing baggy clothing in a shocking new elevation of groping procedures that have stoked a nationwide revolt against privacy-busting airport security measures.

Forget John Tyner’s “don’t touch my junk” experience at the hands of TSA goons in San Diego recently, another victim of Big Sis was told by TSA officials that it was now policy to go even further when dealing with people wearing loose pants or shorts.

Going through airport security this past weekend, radio host Owen JJ Stone, known as “OhDoctah,” related how he was told that the rules had been changed and was offered a private screening. When he asked what the procedure entailed, the TSA agent responded, “I have to go in your waistband, I have to put my hand down your pants,” after which he did precisely that.

Stone chose to conduct the search in public in the fear that the TSA worker would be even more aggressive in a private room.

“If you’re wearing sweat pants or baggy clothing, I was wearing sweat pants they’re not baggy, they’re sweat pants,” said Stone, adding that the agent pulled out his waistband before patting his backside and his crotch.

Even the TSA agent who put his hands down the man’s pants was embarrassed at what he had been told to do by his superiors, apologizing profusely to the victim.

Read the full article at the link.

OK, what's left? A full cavity search cannot be far away. Maybe in the next hour or so.

Speaking of "left", where are the Left and the Progressives, who used to value and uphold the human rights?

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TSA Outdoing Nazis

Goebbels would be so proud!

From Butler Shaffer at LRC Blog today [Emphasis is mine]:

Lew—So, all that it takes to legitimize its atrocities is for the state to have a website on which it describes its procedures! We are no longer to be concerned with the substance of governmental action, but only whether due process was followed. Adolf Hitler might have salvaged his reputation had he thought of this loophole. Imagine the following conversation to have taken place in Germany in the 1930s:

Mr. Goldberg: Where are you taking me?

SS Officer: Ve vill take you to the train station, vhere you vill be loaded onto a boxcar and taken to a special camp. Vhen you arrive at the camp, you vill have a serial number tattooed on your arm, be given a striped uniform to wear, and housed in some special barracks.

Mr. Goldberg: But you are depriving me of my fundamental human rights; what you are doing is morally wrong.

SS Officer: Ve are doing nothing wrong. These procedures are spelled out on our vebsite; you can check them for yourself!

That's literally what TSA is saying, that the procedure is spelled out on their website.

By the way, TSA has come out swinging, vowing to go after John Tyner who refused to be sexually assaulted at the airport with $11,000 fine and criminal charges.

TSA also says that the moment we buy airline tickets, we surrender a great chunk of our rights. I'm sure that is spelled out perfectly at their website.

Now, why would TSA take this line, which looks like a PR disaster to say the least? Why are they so tone-deaf?

Oh I get it.... It's because the order comes from our tone-deaf Prez, who is now going to Europe this week to seek more adoring crowd. Just like the health care "reform", he is exempt from body scans and intrusive patdowns.

We are being forced to live in Obama's paranoia and ineptitude, just as we were forced to live in the paranoia and ineptitude of Bush the Lesser for 8 long years.

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Airport Naked Body Scans - Cui Bono?

Who benefits? Certainly not us the small people.

Ever since the 2009 Christmas panty bomber scare, ex-Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's agency has been peddling the airport scanning machine called Rapiscan, made by Rapiscan Systems.

Rapiscan's parent company is OSI Systems (Ticker symbol: OSIS).

The biggest shareholder of OSI Systems looks like Wells Fargo & Company, holding 11.92% of shares outstanding, valued at $61 million.

Who is the biggest shareholder of Wells Fargo?

Why it's Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, holding 6.12% of shares outstanding, valued at slightly over $8 billion.

Who else holds OSI Systems' shares?

George Soros. Oh what a surprise. He's everywhere.

On December 24, 2009, OSI Systems' shares traded at $22.02. Today, they ended at $36.12. So, these super-wealthy investors have enjoyed 64% gain on their investment in 11 months. Not bad, not bad.

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Drudge: The Terrorists Have Won

This pretty much says it all.

Screenshot of Drudge Report this morning:

We are supposed to be so scared of the "terrorists" that we should let the TSA employees commit a sex crime each and every single day, between 1 million and 2 million crimes a day in the US, either by looking at our naked body images on the computer or physically, sexually molesting us.

Now, WHO are the terrorists?

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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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Protest Against TSA's Grouping and Molestation Procedure

Finally the "small people" are fighting back.

TSA (which by the way stand for Transportation Security Administration) has started a very aggressive pat-down procedure at the nation's airports after an inkjet printer supposedly rigged as a bomb was found in a cargo plane. Remember that news? Did you notice how quickly it disappeared, with no follow-up?

For "Your safety is our priority" TSA under 'Big Sis' Janet Napolitano, a problem on a cargo flight is just another pretext to harass airline passengers further. In the warped mind of TSA and Ms. Napolitano, a cargo plane problem will go away by the aggressive pat-downs on passengers who refuse to go through the naked body scan; with the pat down so aggressive and uncomfortable, borderline sexual abuse, the passenger will opt for being irradiated with dangerous dose of x-ray and having his/her nude pic looked at by perverts at TSA.

MSMs like New York Times always manage to find some brainless airline passengers who almost always praise a new procedure at the airport. "It may be a bit inconvenient, but it's for our own safety!" is the basic line these idiotic passengers always say.

Not so, as Alex Jone's Prison Planet has been reporting:

The populist Drudge Report website has stirred a national debate on TSA abuse of passengers through dangerous naked body scanners and invasive groping measures, culminating in an onslaught of resistance from numerous prominent travel and pilots associations, and leading to the organization of a national opt out day on November 24.

While the corporate media characterizes opposition to airport oppression as a disgruntled minority, Drudge has led the charge in exemplifying that the backlash is in reality part of a rapidly accelerating national outrage that now includes no less than five major travel bodies as well as a flight attendants union.

In addition, individual cases of oppression at the hands of TSA thugs are now pouring in, with Drudge ensuring they receive the attention they deserve by making airport outrage a top story on his website for days on end.

...What was a stirring undercurrent is now out in the open, with anger bubbling to the surface and prompting a massive national debate.

The rebellion is surging, not only because of the noted health dangers of body scanners, but because the TSA has proven time and time again that its justification in treating the American people with less respect than farmyard animals is completely fraudulent

...The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was told by a TSA agent directly that pat downs were made increasingly invasive not for any genuine security reason, but to make the experience so uncomfortable for the traveler that they would prefer to use the body scanner, despite the fact that scientists at Columbia University and the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, along with other scientific bodies, have all warned that the devices increase the risk of developing cancer.

Remember the reason why naked body scanning was introduced and in the process made Michael Chertoff a richer man? Yes, that panty-bomber. Remember how on earth he got on the plane without a passport, to begin with? BECAUSE the CIA wanted him to board the plane. No MSM reported the fact, even though it was revealed in a Congressional hearing in January.

November 24 is a "national opt out day". Reclaim your dignity.

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