TSA Uproar: That’s The Power of Drudge
posted at 12:07 pm on November 22, 2010 by Matt Lewis
As I recently noted at Politics Daily, the TSA showdown is healthy for America. Here’s why:
The TSA passenger rebellion is merely the latest example of American exceptionalism and is perfectly in keeping with the nation’s ethos. As Ben Franklin declared, those “who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
But while this rebellion has long been bubbling below the surface, one wonders if it have ever come to the forefront without Matt Drudge. My guess is, it would not have — at least, not yet.
Not long ago, of course, there was great debate as to whether or not Drudge even still had it. As Barack Obama was besting John McCain in 2008, many observers wondered whether or not The Drudge Report — which a decade earlier had pushed the Monica Lewinsky scandal into the headlines — had lost a step.
At the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz debated whether or not Drudge still had the clout to drive media coverage. And TPM’s Greg Sargent also argued that Drudge’s influence was over-stated. He was not alone.
Of course, as the TSA rebellion illustrates, Drudge remains incredibly powerful and uniquely important.
As Project for Excellence in Journalism director Tom Rosenstiel previously told the Los Angeles Times, Drudge is “a gateway for conventional journalism.”
It think that’s the key. The TSA story, of course, did not end with Drudge. Do a Google News search for “TSA” and you’ll find all sorts of new information and investigative journalism that has been reported in the last week. (At the time of this writing, doing so yielded me a “Time” story called “Please remove your prosthetic breast,” and a Raw Story titled, “ABC producer says TSA agent felt inside her underwear“).
Now consider how many of these stories wouldn’t have seen the light of day had it not been for the blaring-siren of the Drudge Report …
By linking to that now-famous video — and sending it viral — Drudge helped spark a movement. He may have also turned John Tyner into the business traveler’s “Rosa Parks”…
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If it was not for the internet and sites like the Drudge Report, all we would hear is the sound of crickets from the MSM.
brtex on November 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM
todays episeode:
TOUCH THE BOY
sickening
pseudonominus on November 22, 2010 at 12:12 PM
Rosa Parks? This isn’t about rights, this is about government on crack.
Limerick on November 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM
“First time ya feel it it might make ya mad …”
Tony737 on November 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Maybe they touched Drudge’s junk?
cartooner on November 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM
How the Drug War Spawned the TSA:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/11/for-children.html
They are both looking for contraband and you looked the other way when they did it to dopers. Well friends and neighbors. We are all dopers now.
Precedent on how to deal with contraband has been set. It is now going to be applied to everyone.
MSimon on November 22, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Buck Howdy does TSA.
petefrt on November 22, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Drudge Report and other news-related sites are exactly the reason Barry and Holder would like nothing better than to shut Internet sites down. Without them and the stories they uncover, Barry and the MSM could simply march merrily along in their parallel universe.
anXdem on November 22, 2010 at 12:19 PM
TSA is a disaster of big government, with both administrations guilty.
I have zero sympathy. The latest? Oh gosh, that Fox News story where the guy tried to tell them that he had a urine bag, was ignored rudely, and then they actually spilled it all over him….was truly heartbreaking.
This honestly can’t go on. Let them blow us up. Some things are worse.
AnninCA on November 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Hey Ed or Allah, is there a list of rules for TSA agents online we can get a hold of? It seems a lot of these searches vary wildly in how they are done. I would assume TSA would have strict rules and regulations for how these searches are suppose to be performed. Would be great if the public had these in hand for when we went through the checkpoints
offroadaz on November 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Absolute power corrupts absolutely!
capejasmine on November 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM
Guess who Obama was travelling with when he defended the use of the scanners that he doesn’t have to worry about?
andycanuck on November 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM
I find my self wondering whether these blue-shirts are the red-coats of our times, and which airport will become our Concord?
Joe Mama on November 22, 2010 at 12:22 PM
If not for the alternative media/internet… we’d be stuck with painting slogans on the wall.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
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Typical nanny state crap… Do it our way or I cut your balls off…
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RalphyBoy on November 22, 2010 at 12:25 PM
Does anybody remember back when the moonbats were screaming bloody murder because the “Evil BushChimpHitler” got the power to (gasp!!) look up people’s library card records?
Those were the good old days.
logis on November 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Maybe they touched Drudge’s junk?
cartooner on November 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM
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:)Thanks for the smile,between that comment and listening to Rush,I’m having a great day!
ohiobabe on November 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Damn skippy it’s about rights, Limerick. Rights enshrined by our founders in the fourth amendment of the constitution. It doesn’t get any more clear than that.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:27 PM
To hell with PC.
I’d rather see Moslems profiled, than Americans having to endure this level of violation of their 4th Amendment rights.
“Redistribute” the slings and arrows of THIS misfortune.
Roy Rogers on November 22, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Drudge is the man
Spathi on November 22, 2010 at 12:30 PM
Drudge still has the power to push the big story and still has the hits, but it’s no longer the place to go for breaking news as it used to be. At one time if there was a shooting in Schenectady, a kidnapping in Jordan, whatever, it would be up on drudge before any of the bigs. No more. Many of their links are days old.
slickwillie2001 on November 22, 2010 at 12:30 PM
This honestly can’t go on. Let them blow us up. Some things are worse.
Let them blow YOU up…Fine with me, I say profile away and end this perverted intrusion of our body’s.
SHARPTOOTH on November 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Hey Ed or Allah, is there a list of rules for TSA agents online we can get a hold of
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I don’t need a list of stinking rules.How about our 4th amendments rights being violated! “the right of the people to be secure in their persons,houses,papers and effects,against unreasonable searches and seizures,shall not be”.
ohiobabe on November 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM
THANK YOU!
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM
What?
doodleduh on November 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Nah… FNC is the POWER
LurkerDood on November 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Actually, the terrorists won when El Presidente signed the USA PATRIOT Act. That’s when we decided that the 4th amendment was just there for peacetime. Everything that’s happening now has its genesis in that.
Also, for everyone asking that we profile, how would we go about doing that? Arab names? Muslim garb? Brown skin? Please note that Israel has a much easier go of it, given their limited number of airports and the fact that most arabs there aren’t allowed to go anywhere anyway.
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Drudge Rules. And everyone at the Washington Post knows it.
Hummer53 on November 22, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Rosa Parks started a movement. Looks like John Tyner may have started one. The difference I see here is that Parks started a movement that resulted in new laws and an equal protection amendment to the constitution. Tyner is (or should be) attracting attention to something a little older: The fourth amendment of our constitution.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM
You’re probably right. Drudge was probably the biggest factor.
FloatingRock on November 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Their country of origin and the recent countries they’ve been to?
doodleduh on November 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM
So how many fourth amendment violations can you cite, Ern? Specifically. Gimme names, pal. Names and dates, even.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM
Option A: Assume all are guilty until groped into innocence.
Option B: ???
Option C: Blow us up.
I pick option B
Electrongod on November 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM
yup.
Personally, I don’t worry about the machines. I’ve lost all sense of pride once I had a kid. I remember 8 intern doctors all looking at my parts, discussing me like I was a medical wonder of some sort. At that point, I gave up. *haha
So I’m with Whoopi. Let em look. But these stories of overstepping by the TSA just make me feel ill.
I don’t want to protect “this” type of freedom. If we’re going here as a country, then bring the troops home.
It’s not worth protecting.
AnninCA on November 22, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Did you know that El Al security has ethnic Arabs working there? You never hear that, do you? Or that there is a small but significant presence of ethnic arabs in Israel’s citizenry? Try again, douchebag.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Uh…the quote attribution is wrong. Ben Franklin didn’t say that, it belongs to PBHO.
Bishop on November 22, 2010 at 12:45 PM
First rule of security at El Al airport: Don’t assume that all ethnic Arabs are terrorists.
Second rule of security at El Al airport: Don’t assume that all non-Arabs are not terrorists.
They do behavioral profiling there. You know, like how the FBI tracks career criminals domestically?
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:46 PM
obvious TSA doesnt care about 4th amendment rights. All we have left is catching them in violation of their own laws
offroadaz on November 22, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Warrantless wiretapping. Why are you so defensive of these procedures? If you’re ok with warrantless wiretapping, you better damn well be ok with pat downs and x-rays. You’d be hypocritical if you weren’t.
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 12:46 PM
But we see the over-legal lawsuit prone nature of society, too.
It’s hard to see how profiling can be defended in this type of society. There’s a lawyer for every Muslim, looking for a job.
Seriously, I can’t see that would work. Behavioral clues? My experience at airport is that they are all trained to NOT treat anyone in a humane way. When would they even notice our behavior?
AnninCA on November 22, 2010 at 12:46 PM
How do you determine someone’s a muslim? Last name? Brown skin? Turban? what?
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Aside from the fact that they’re violating our 4th amendment rights, is anybody else worried about how ineffective all this is? The TSA is lost in the weeds. They’re completely focused on carefully examining every single innocent piece of hay in every haystack, while the needle is miles ahead of them working out the next horrific scenario. Where is the big picture thinking? Where is the integrated and coherent approach to security? Good grief, where’s the competence?
Dee2008 on November 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Exactly. But we would actually have to be able to watch behavior.
I guess it’s sort of worked if people are trying to hide ferrets, etc., in their pants. I recall a couple of stories on that.
AnninCA on November 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Behavioral clues is how they should be doing it. But that would require trained professionals, like they employ at Quantico. Good luck with getting them to work for the TSA.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Let them blow us up.
Say what?
I have a better idea, let’s do BEHAVIORAL profiling. It’s not racist, it’s not offensive and it works.
See that nervous twitchy guy who’s looking at the floor? Maybe he just doesn’t like to fly … maybe he’s a terrorist. Let’s go talk to him.
Tony737 on November 22, 2010 at 12:48 PM
Come on, you know it goes far beyond that; the Israelis haven’t been as successful as they have only by targeting “brown” skinned people. Their operations are in-depth, they have levels of people whose only job is to scan the crowd, or peer into garbage cans for hidden bombs, or carry hidden detectors through the crowds to see if they get a hit on something.
Yes they have few airports to secure, then again they have a population of only 8 million.
Bishop on November 22, 2010 at 12:49 PM
Behavioral profiling. If they stop to face Mecca and pray in the middle of the concourse, they’re probably Muslim. Unless they’re practicing Taqqiya, but oh well. Those troglodytes over at El Al know more about that kind of stuff than I do, but you can always go to Quantico to learn about behavioral profiling…
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 12:50 PM
The pressure was building for quite some time before 1776, throughout the time period of the Black Robed Regiment. The first Tea Party in 1773 was a non-violent protest. It wasn’t until 1776 when King George sent troops to Lexington and Concord, fired on the insolent Americans, that brought on the revolutionary war.
The shot heard round the world.
Learn history or repeat it.
tarpon on November 22, 2010 at 12:50 PM
All I can say is “Thank God!” for Matt Drudge.
As I’m a very infrequent airline flier, it would have hardly registered a blip on my radar if not for his website and other bloggers.
And the MSM wouldn’t have given a flip about this story unless it had happened under President Bush’s watch.
Lady Heather on November 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Hey resident idiot, 20% of Israeli citizens are arab muslims.
slickwillie2001 on November 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM
That, and…
Preemptive War/Preemptive Body Scans
Rae on November 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM
You really think a guy planning on blowing up an airplane is going to give himself away like that? The minute we announce profiling measures, that idea goes out the window. Logistically, the security regime in Israel would be impossible to implement across the entire US. We’d need 10′s of thousands of expertly trained personnel, along with a good legal team when the inevitable innocent American is denied their 4th amendment rights because they had a fever and looked sweaty.
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 12:56 PM
What about the baby that was taken from her mother to be inspected by TSA?
ProudPalinFan on November 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM
Then you can explain to the profiling instructors at Quantico why it doesn’t work. American law enforcement agencies profile all the time. Profiling =/= racial profiling, pal
As for our 4th amendment rights, we’re being denied them right now, douchebag! And we’re being sexually assaulted. And we’re being stolen from. This is a better idea than subtle El Al-type profiling?! Gimme an effing break!
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM
I’ve been trying to say this for some time.
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 1:01 PM
For those who think behavioral profiling is racist, it’s not, anybody can be a Muslim or a Muslim terrorist or a terrorist of any kind, “Eco-terrorist” for example, but they will ALL give off signs that be detected. DOGS can sniff you out if you’re nervous, people can be trained to see it in your eyes and body language, etc.
Tony737 on November 22, 2010 at 1:01 PM
And I reject the notion that “El Al-type security measures would be impossible to implement across the United States.” If Quantico can train FBI agents for a behavioral analysis unit (i.e. domestic criminal profiling), we can field enough agents for the relatively few international airports we have (and we don’t have many international airports per capita here).
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:01 PM
You’ve been trying to spew a lot of garbage here. Most of us don’t listen.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM
Rosa Parks? This isn’t about rights, this is about government on crack.
Limerick on November 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Wrong. It is about rights. Gov on crack too….
wcarr on November 22, 2010 at 1:03 PM
The idea that profiling requires racial/religious discrimination is utter BS and the left know it, they just wont admit. A person’s travel history, citizenship status, and presence on an FBI wanted list is sufficient.
abobo on November 22, 2010 at 1:03 PM
Somehow I don’t think your 4th amendment stand is very genuine. I’m sure you approved of the drug war and USA PATRIOT Act, which led us to this place. Should’ve voiced your opposition then. Now, for whatever reason, you’re all bent out of shape. Why?
Either way, do you consider it logistically feasible to basically expand the amount of people who get FBI training by 10′s of thousands?
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 1:05 PM
There is something deeply wrong with all of this. Not only the unreasonable searches & seizures, trading freedom for security. We are supposed to be free to travel without interference. Airlines are theoretically private businesses.
The level of control over every aspect of our lives is apparent. The idea of cavity searches has already been raised. What records are kept? Where does it stop?
What CAN’T they inspect? Where is the line? It doesn’t look like there is one.
jodetoad on November 22, 2010 at 1:05 PM
We can field enough trained security agents to figure it out. We should, but we won’t. We don’t have the stomach to do what it takes for our people to fly comfortably.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM
On what basis do you find it logistically unfeasable? The FBI trains people who train other people. The primary problem in terrorism is with international airports.
And last time I checked, if there happened to be drugs or other contraband in my home, police still need a warrant to search it. The “drug war” argument is a straw man, especially since most drug searches don’t involve police sticking their hands down my pants or other forms of sexual assault.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM
If it wasn’t for Drudge and others like him the mainstream media would remain curled up in the fetal position whining and crying.
rplat on November 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM
Where have you been? No-knock drug raids that kill innocent people…sobriety checkpoints that operate with no reasonable suspicion…the USA PATRIOT Act…only NOW you start to get upset?!?
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM
Nah, I doubt Matt ever attended Communist training camp.
Akzed on November 22, 2010 at 1:10 PM
No-knock raids are not warrantless. In fact, if memory serves, no-knock warrants require specification as such. And you still haven’t cited one example of someone whose fourth amendment rights were actually violated under PATRIOT act provisions.
I’m more upset about sexual assault in the name of safety than anything else. It is naive to think that having women remove medical breast implants, or groping three year old little girls actually makes us safer.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Racial profiling would not catch Adam Ghadammit, (because Islam is not a race), but behavioral profiling would.
The reason they’re doing this is because the enemy is trying to recruit white and black Islamic converts.
Tony737 on November 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM
But it’s OKAY to feel people up instead of asking them a few questions?
Chip on November 22, 2010 at 1:14 PM
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Well… that settles it then. Because we allowed a level of something in the past… we gave up our right to scream ‘enough!’… EVER./idiot speak off
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RalphyBoy on November 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM
I guess there’s that, too. LOL
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:17 PM
What also gets me is the TSA agents themselves. I don’t know where they get these employees but a lot are really creepy or dumb. I think the TSA really scraped the bottom of the barrel with some of these people! I would not allow some of them to pat me down or touch me in any way so I guess if I have to fly it’s gonna be the scanners for me until a sane POTUS stops this. Two more years…two more years… Is what I keep telling myself.
CCRWM on November 22, 2010 at 1:19 PM
You know if you asked for a woman, she’d end up looking like Ma Fratelli and have a name tag that reads “Large Marge.”
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:21 PM
I am a retired history teacher. Among the pictures from Nazi Germany, I have one that I felt my students could relate to as an example of what happens when the state takes the rights of people.
The picture shows a German policeman that has stopped a young boy on a public sidewalk. The boy’s face is stricten as those around him seem to find it funny. The policeman is bent over, undoing the boys pants so that he can inspect the boys penis, or may infact be doing it, to determine if he is potentially jewish and therfore the enemy of the state.
Aside from time and history, there is not much different between that picture of a Nazi action and what we are seeing today, especially with children.
The adults are upset, but the children are very confused as what they are seeing is what they have been taught is very wrong and should never happen, What the TSA is doing to them is not the good touch that they have been taught as that of a parent or doctor, but the bad touch of a child molestor, complete with threating demands to let them do it to them or be punished. Not much different for adults, but at least we have the ability to understand the situation that children have a much harder time doing at their level of maturity.
A second point of concern. I have seen no indication of the TSA agents changing their gloves after having intimate contact with the gentilia of a person. It appears that they are using the same glove to inspect the body and gentilia of the next selected canidate. I guess the gloves are only to protect them, not the cattle they are inspecting.
Yesterday I was watching a video and one of the TSA agent, in the manner the comic move of a doctor about to do a proctal exam, raised her arm and snapped the glove tight on her wrist. She probably was just practing for the next level of “pat downs”.
Franklyn on November 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM
This is what happens when we allow security personal to unionize. First thing congress needs to do is outlaw public sector unions everywhere.
erp on November 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM
Nipple rings found to be a danger by the TSA.
andycanuck on November 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM
One of my exes had nipple rings. I found them to be a hazard to me, on occasion.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Yes, the question is what measures will they want to implement when these procedures Don’t work.
Chip on November 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM
I must have used a forbidden word as my last post did not show up, after more than two minutes
Franklyn on November 22, 2010 at 1:27 PM
I was just talking to my husband about this last night. I noticed weeks ago that Drudge has been pounding this TSA thing in his top row of headlines, even before Junk-Guy came up.
What I want to know is, what flight was he on and who pissed him off?
Jewels on November 22, 2010 at 1:34 PM
When fighting terrorists, we should have consulted the experts from the very beginning. Israel, that tiny postage stamp of a country, has been the target of the entire world for years. It borders on silly that we don’t follow their example.
Jewels on November 22, 2010 at 1:37 PM
When this started, my husband, who travels frequently, said the aggressive patdowns were designed to be so thoroughly obnoxious in order to steer passengers into the X-ray machines — radiation and people viewing our “places” anonymously in place of embarrassment.
And nobody seriously believes that they’re going to erase all the images, do they? They’ve already violated their pledge to do so with some celebrities.
The government is trying to manipulate the public again. I hope people don’t fall for it.
hachiban on November 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM
I noticed you ignored the example of sobriety checkpoints. I’m assuming your silence on the checkpoints implies that they do, in fact, represent an “exception” to the 4th amendment. Hows about we not draw arbitrary lines between “acceptable” and “unacceptable” 4th amendment violations, and fight the encroachment of the security state as a whole? Whether you like it or not, warrantless wiretapping represents a violation. I don’t have security clearance, nor am I a law enforcement officer, so I can’t give you names and dates as to those violations, but on the face of it they are an unlawful search. And whether you’d like to admit it or not, mandating piss tests and other forms of privacy encroachments in the name of fighting drugs led us down this path. We should fight all of this.
ernesto on November 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Sobriety checkpoints are a matter of state law, Ern. I have spoken out against them many times in my home state. I don’t have a dog in the hunt as I don’t drive, but as a matter of principle, I *don’t* like them for the same reason I don’t like these TSA protocols.
As for piss tests, I’ve never had to take one at the behest of the government. I’ve had to do them as a condition of private employment, but there is a lot that private employers can do legally that the government is forbidden to do by the constitution. (We sure got that ass-backwards here, don’t we Ern?) Try again, douchebag.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 1:44 PM
Any sane president, even in times of terrorist threats, would say to the director of TSA…c’mon, you can’t treat the folks like that. Think of something else. Unfortunately, we don’t have a president who looks out for the citizens.
scalleywag on November 22, 2010 at 1:46 PM
Obama could stop all this with one word. He hasn’t.
The only conclusion I can draw from this is that he intended it to be like this from the beginning. One more intrusion into American freedom.
Why is anyone surprised?
hachiban on November 22, 2010 at 1:50 PM
Again,
I am a social studies teacher now retired. Years ago I found a picture that shows a policeman in a country we now send our wounded to, doing a sidewalk inspection of a young boys gentilia in full view of everyone. The boy is obvioulsy upset while those around him are laughing. The policeman is show in the process of undoing his pants or actually inspecting the boy to see if he is an enemy of the state. The boy of course has no choice but to submit to the exam.
There is not a lot of difference, aside from time and place, to the actions of the TSA who are being shown, undoing the pants of young boys so that they can inspect their gentilia.
I used this picture, which I felt my students could relate to, to illistrate what happens when the state takes away the rights of its people and of course the situation of the group of people the boy was being suspected of belonging to.
Franklyn on November 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM
The terrorists have truly won when the TSA exempts muslims from the search & scan.
bloviator on November 22, 2010 at 1:57 PM
I’ve been through my share of sobriety check points… They were all state or county, not a single one federal. They usually when like this… I stop… an officer looks into my eyes while asking a few general questions; name, where I’m coming from, destination… Have you had any alcohol to drink today?
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Never once have I been even asked to step out of my vehicle, and no crotch groping was involved. If anyone passing that point was groped and given a better look at it was probable that there was a reason other than they were lucky number ’8′… or just so the law could act like it’s not profiling during those stops.
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You know… profiling. Where they look someone over real quick and use a list of what a drunk looks like to pick who to give more attention. (Islamo Fascist Terrorist in the TSA case). That is what a SCP is… a quick profile for a drunk, and then I go on my way… My junk never enters to it. And I seriously doubt that any child was groped just to see if his dad was drunk.
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RalphyBoy on November 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Something that I have noticed. It does not appear that the TSA is changing their gloves after they have had used them to inspect the bodies and gentilia of a selected ticket holders. Are there no laws that require hands to be washed or gloves to be changed after having contact with a persons body? It would appear that the gloves are only for their protection and veternarian rules apply on the body contacts.
Franklyn on November 22, 2010 at 2:01 PM
The terrorists have
trulyTEMPORARILY won when the CURRENT A$$HOLE REGIME’S TSA exempts muslims from the search & scan.VegasRick on November 22, 2010 at 2:03 PM
All of the previous airliner attacks that have been thwarted have been because citizens have refused to accept the situation and have taken action to subdue the attackers.
Now the TSA is training us all to be compliant sheep and accept whatever is done to us.
And this is this supposed to prevent attacks?
Haiku Guy on November 22, 2010 at 2:03 PM
As I alluded to in an earlier post, I don’t like sobriety checkpoints. I do find them to be a gross impingement of the state on privacy — but I suspect they haven’t made national headlines yet because they haven’t involved sexual assault of three-year-olds.
gryphon202 on November 22, 2010 at 2:05 PM
I personally think TSA should lose a majority of their funding.
They are inept.
And don’t even try to sell me, anyway, on personal outsourcing.
Baloney. They are inept without accountability.
AnninCA on November 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM
It ain’t about safety brother. If it were the pat downs (feel ups) would take place way before the terminal.
VegasRick on November 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM
TSA has truly offended people on just this issue.
AnninCA on November 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM
It is kind of strange to watch liberals on the cable news channels making excuses for this type of invasive search. Or, pretending they have no problem with being strip searched and groped themselves.
If this was going on under Bush’s watch all those same liberals would be screaming bloody murder. These are the same people that were flipping out over warrantless surveillance during the Bush years. Yet, now they think it is kind of warm and cozy to get your junk groped by rent-a-cops. What gives with this BS?
joedoe on November 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM
Ann? We agree? Wow! Cool! They really have gone way too far.
VegasRick on November 22, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Yup. Have we surrendered so much of our liberty that most of us are not insulted by a government scrotal examination in order to fly from Philly to Chicago?
Absurd. This is political correctness run wild.
Jaibones on November 22, 2010 at 2:09 PM
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