San Diego and the demise of American freedom

[OneFootInTheGrave]

The homeland must have security. Really, what if somebody tried to take a pair of nail scissors on to a plane?

We would all die!

[DaShi]

Maybe you would. I would enter an irreversible coma.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/penniphile/roadpennfederalvip.html

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

If I heard correctly Janet Napolitano has refused to comment on Muslim women having to undergo enhanced pat down techniques and deferred the matter as follows:

"“On the pat downs, CAIR [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] has recommended that Muslim women wearing hijabs refuse to go through the full body pat downs before boarding planes,” CNSNews.com asked Napolitano at a Monday press conference. “Will you insist that they do go through full body pat downs before boarding planes?”

“Look, we have, like I said before, we are doing what we need to do to protect the traveling public and adjustments will be made where they need to be made,” Napolitano responded. “With respect to that particular issue, I think there will be more to come. But, again, the goal here, you know, we’re not doing this just to do it. We’re doing it because we need to keep powders and gels and liquids off of planes that are unauthorized just as we need to keep metals off of planes...

Can't wait for the next round of body cavity searches.

[Aeson]

I wonder how many terrorists have been thwarted by pat downs? Are there any statistics on this? Like... "20 million people patted down, we found some guy with a fork stuck up his ass... he was very relieved when we removed it."

[Berzerker]

the 9/11 guys had boxcutters, but I dont know where they had them

[Asher]

Check out these photos.

There once was a time where Americans would laugh at such invasion of freedoms by the government...assuming it was another country's.

http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2010/11/dia-pat-downs-and-body-scans/

[giblets]

I'm getting on a plane in a couple days and I'm kind of scared.

[Egbert]

I'm getting on a plane in a couple days and I'm kind of scared.

What of?

Airport security or the possibility some old granny might have a plastic fork in her handbag?

[giblets]

Definitely the plastic fork. I am also terrified of liquid containers that are larger than 3 ounces.

[Kidlicious]

How could it not be demise of freedom?

Because you were never granted the right to fly in an airplane without having your bags handled.

[DinoDoc]

“Don’t touch my junk” is the new “don’t tread on me”

Not quite the 18th-century elegance of “Don’t Tread on Me,” but the age of Twitter has a different cadence from the age of the musket. What the modern battle cry lacks in archaic charm, it makes up for in full-body syllabic punch.

Don’t touch my junk is the anthem of the modern man, the Tea Party patriot, the late-life libertarian, the midterm election voter. Don’t touch my junk, Obamacare – get out of my doctor’s examining room, I’m wearing a paper-thin gown slit down the back. Don’t touch my junk, Google – Street View is cool, but get off my street. Don’t touch my junk, you airport security goon – my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I’m a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?…

The junk man’s revolt marks the point at which a docile public declares that it will tolerate only so much idiocy. Metal detector? Back-of-the-hand pat? Okay. We will swallow hard and pretend airline attackers are randomly distributed in the population.

But now you insist on a full-body scan, a fairly accurate representation of my naked image to be viewed by a total stranger? Or alternatively, the full-body pat-down, which, as the junk man correctly noted, would be sexual assault if performed by anyone else?

This time you have gone too far, Big Bro’. The sleeping giant awakes.

[Asher]

I would call that kind of searching unreasonable, personally.

[DinoDoc]

I would call that kind of searching unreasonable, personally.

Most of the planet would seem to agree as we seem to be the only country that employs trained monkeys to fondle other people under the cloak of law.

[DaShi]

@attributing "Don't touch my junk, bro" to Obamacare.