TSA: Genitals on Parade

I think the safest way for all Americans to fly would be to strip before entering the plane, and wear TSA robes…after a full body cavity search. Folks, that is about where we are at. Just because the technology exists to take graphic x-rays of your body doesn’t make it right. When Barack Obama got elected, I wondered just how much freedom America would be willing to give up in the grandiose government controlled scheme of things. Now we know that a good portion of Americans don’t mind being seen naked in a picture. By the way, the picture to the left is what they see. If it makes you uncomfortable, then you know what I mean.

I wouldn’t mind it so much if there weren’t other means available to do what needs to be done…like profiling. Every one brushes aside the example of the insanity of searching an African from Nigeria while looking for Irish Republican Army terrorists. But this is exactly what this is. In some bizarre twist of logic, we are willing to show the genitals of ourselves, our family, our parents, our children…in order not to hurt the feelings of young Muslim males with one way tickets flying from Yemen!!

Liberals pontificate that profiling doesn’t work, like it is the 11th commandment. Everybody knows that. It’s a given. No, I don’t think so. Just look the Israelis who haven’t had a plane hijacked in years and years. Feeling up a blond haired, blue eyed Scandinavian five year old little girl does not increase our security one bit, and I defy anyone to tell me how it does.

Over the years we have subjected ourselves to cameras everywhere, drunk driving checks, and GPS systems installed on our car. Our internet activities are categorized and traced. Our telephones and credit cards are available for the world to see. Our health care records are being compiled and stored. And now we are allowing ourselves to be photographed naked in an airport; all in the name of security based on political correctness rather than common sense necessity.

In all of this, our constitution is lost. Whatever happened to unreasonable search and seizure? And while we are being groped and patted down and ogled at the airports, illegals are streaming across the border by the thousands, attending our schools, getting instate tuition…but they aren’t a threat. No, not at all! Worse, the government is suing the states trying to stop it.

Just for the record. Profiling is absolutely justifiable under the constitution. Courts continuously weigh competing rights to develope a legal basis for compelling public policy. Think shouting fire in a crowded theater. No rights are absolute. It depends on how the argument is framed.

So I ask you, pit my right to privacy and protections against unreasonable search and seizure (having my genitals displayed on a screen in an airport) against those opposing criminal profiling because someone's feelings might get hurt. Which is the better public policy position? Does the governmnet really have a compelling interest to feel up someone with an artificial knee?

If we continue down this absurd path instead of using common sense…we can tear up the Constitution. This is the face of illogical, bureaucratic, big brother liberalism. It is an ugly face, a dehumanizing face. The searches they are doing now would not have stopped 9/11, and most experts say would not have stopped the underwear bomber...who was a young muslim male, not granny in a wheelchair. Wake up America.