Janet Napolitano

Well, clearly, it's a choice between being molested or dying.

Cause if you don't feel up your kids or take pictures of them "naked," someone will DIE.

You'll let your kids be filmed naked or molested to keep people from DYING, won't you?

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Posted by Rappy:

This is GOVERNMENT. The very folks some think can save our planet and give us FANTASTIC healthcare.

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The very folks who SOME think can "save" Iraq and give us FANTASTIC security, too.

Funny that so many who were all for wireless wiretaps ("No crimes were committed! No laws were broken!") and the Patriot Act now fall all over themselves at THIS infraction of their liberties.

"I told you so" doesn't quite seem to do it justice...

The modern definition of "socialist" is anyone who's winning an argument against a tea-bagger.

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Originally posted by Niki2:
But to put it on Obama,

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I would have posed the question to anyone in the office of the Presidency. So it is not a personal attack on Obama vs. some other president. It is a question of fairness and the absence of double standards. If he supports the policy, he should subject his family to the same indignities and health risks we have to endure. If he doesn't support it, then we would appreciate his speaking up for the rest of us.

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But that anyone ENJOYS it, or that Obama is to blame for it, is stupid in my opinion. Not saying Raptor is stupid, just that it's a stupid comment.

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You don't think pedophiles and frotteurs and voyeurs are making a beeline for these TSA jobs? Certain jobs attract certain folks. Those who detest it will likely change jobs, to eventually be replaced by those who enjoy it.

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I'm only half kidding about the TSAr agents 'liking' the feeling up or peeking the unclothed bodies of passenger, regardless of age or sex....

That's not the point. The entire CONCEPT that we can scan folks like this, instead of profiling, like other countries do, is flat out moronic.

ALL Americans need to stand up and get this either over turned, or force airports to go to private security, and opt out of the Alliance ...err.. Federal intrusions.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
If you don't want to be felt up, then go through the machine. What's the big deal?

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The big deal is that *I* own the right to take nude photos of myself, the fucking government does not.

Second, these scanners come up with false positives all the time and you might very well end up with some stranger touching your junk anyway. How in the hell did it suddenly become all right for security people to be touching folks everywhere and even looking into women's panties? (According to a comment here: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/the-full-body-back
lash/#more-3551)

I'm mad as hell over this. If I could manage it at all, I'd take buses or trains, and never fly again. But I have a few work trips coming up, one of them with students. I will have to get on that plane, so I'll have no choice but to have my privacy violated. Talk about government mandates. To live in this modern world of travel, you have to hand over your body to The Man.

And to say that Bush wouldn't be all for this is ridiculous. Of course he would. He was all about giving rights up out of fear. And Lieberman - absolute BS. As soon as we start believing that we have to give up our rights in order to be safe against something that is statistically insignificant, the terrorist's job is done. Yeah, Osama won all right. And you know who else won? The companies who got millions in govt contracts building these useless, invasive fucking scanners.

I took a flight that stayed within New Zealand a few years ago. I got on the flight with nothing but a quick scan of my carry-on, and I even carried a coffee. The sanity of it all was nearly overwhelming. Anyone who thinks that we don't live in a police state should go visit a foreign country.

Oh, but that would involve getting photographed naked and groped first.



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Originally posted by mal4prez:
Anyone who thinks that we don't live in a police state should go visit a foreign country.

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Yup. It's part of the reason that I do live in a foreign country. A small part, but a part, nonetheless.

I can get on planes here without taking off shoes, while carrying on water for my kids, and going through a normal metal detector (those were the good old days, huh?).



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