Their choice is such a foolish one! I am unconditionally trustworthy and they refuse to take even the slightest glance at my background. Many thousands of travelers are similarly qualified but this investigative tool is not allowed at the airports.

If a carpenter were “crippled” the same way by his company, he’d not be allowed to have his hammer and saw.

. . .these encroachments on and invasions of our basic liberties are the price we pay for freedom.

You’re joking, right? Step back for a second. Encroachments on liberty contribute to freedom. The dictionary practically defines those two words in terms of each other. Do you not see how self-contradictory that sentence is? How could being under the control of someone else in a specific instance make me, on the whole, less under the control of others?

Once upon a time, our rights and our freedoms were endowed by the Creator.

Now the government has taught us that we have to pay, to get what God gave us.

We have to surrender our liberties, to pay for our freedoms, which we’ve surrendered, to pay for them…

Now, we just have to get the rest of the country on board.

We have foolishly spent too many years teaching people that self-defense is immoral and too dangerous for the average person. It is time that we take responsibility for our own defense in ALL parts of our own lives, not just merely at the airport.

It is time for the American government to go back to taking care of it’s enumerated powers that it is restricted to in the Constitution, and to leave everything else up to the people and the states respectively.

Sacrificing freedom as the price of freedom doesn’t make sense. I am willing to sacrifice my absolute safety for the sake of freedom and that’s what we should be asking of people. I’d rather take the chance of being on ‘that’ plane in order to live in a free society. (I’m not saying take away security entirely, just keep it from being so intrusive and control oriented.)

For the TSA they have two top, and often conflicting, priorities (besides their private agendas and money/power scheming.:
1) Provide for the real security of the airport.
2) make people feel safe about flying.

The screenings are theater. Some of the stuff they do is actually needed, but the majority of it is completely theater. It’s done out in the open and to everybody so that when they get into the airport they help people feel safe.

The real security mechanisms are as such:
1) Random screenings of individuals
2) X-raying baggage and random searches.
3) observation of behavior
4) investigations of organizations outside of the airport with documentation provided to airport security personal on who and what to look out for.

That’s the stuff that matters. Terrorist plots are complex and risky. They need to know what is going on and need to know what is reliable for them to pull off serious stunts and all the randomness and observation ruins planing.

Stuff like taking the shoes off, throwing away shampoo, crotch groping, so-call ‘naked pictures’, laptop batteries, on plane marshals etc etc. Those things are designed to intimidate people into obeying and to make them feel safe that somebody with power is in charge.

Needless to say a 9-11 attack will never happen again. The assailants followed airport rules 100% and it depended on the policies and advise put into place that told people and crew that resistance is the worst thing you could do. That if you just obey and wait for the government to help you then that is your best chance at survival. What the terrorists did on that day could never happen again because now there are going to be a significant number of passengers that would rather die fighting then see another plane running into a building.

I would say there is a pretty good chance that this is already in the works. Roadblocks will start a vicious circle of tyranny. More roadblocks, more contraband and illegals found, leading to calls for more roadblocks, wrecking the economy further, causing more people to become outlaws and black marketeers, resulting in more arrests at roadblocks, and so on.

The last I looked the results were nearly split between full body scan and neither (this leading by a small margin), and with a pat down getting a small vote total.

The comments were interesting, but predictable. The “neither” comments were calling it a waste, ineffective, an invasion of privacy, etc… all well and good in my opinion.

The “full body scan” supporters were saying things like, “the price we pay for ‘security’”, “what if you were on that plane?”, “what’s wrong with you guys?”, etc.

Interestingly, the “pat down” supporter comments seemed a weak attempt at being moderate. Comments like, “hey, I don’t like the scan… but I want to fly… so I don’t mind the pat down, it seems a fair compromise.”

I wonder what the demographic or political affiliations are here. It wouldn’t surprise if conservative republicans generally supported the full body scans.

It always amazes me how some who are the first to yell “communist!” or “socialist!” whenever a democrat proposes spending money on anything are the first to get in line for socialized security probing and radiation scans at airports. I also wonder how often many of these people fly.

the idea that these globalists want to destroy american should not be the slightest bit outrageous a statement in light of the many ways in which it has been done, heavily regulating all forms of business all over the country, encouraging american-incorporated companies to move their labour force where they don’t have to pay the illegal IRS income tax – hell that’s what the IRS was invented for… and price controls and subsidies on commodities and wage controls…

Think about it. If security were the issue, and the government actually believed these policies were needed, why do we not scan and grope wherever people congregate? If the terrorists take down a plane, a couple hundred people meet their maker. Blow up a bus station, train terminal, rock concert, or sporting event and thousands die. Am I missing something?

Come on, government do-gooders. If you’re going to keep us safe, you need to feel us up at every opportunity. Think of all the government jobs you’d create! The oglers, pedophiles, and perverts deserve to make a living too.