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By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  November 26th, 2010 at 11:30 AM  | 

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(Via Hot Air Headlines) Ann Coulter is not precisely on my Christmas list – and, in the highly unlikely possibility she knows my name, I would not be on hers – but she makes a darn good suggestion here: if we’re going to randomly pornoscan and/or strip-search fliers then we should blipping well do the same to Members of Congress and their staff when they try to enter Federal buildings.  What’s that you say? They’re not likely to be suicide terrorists?

Funny about that: NEITHER AM I.  And these people work for me.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: I understand that it is quite the fashion for various Left-pundits to make sycophantic statements about how they quite enjoy being told to turn their head and cough at the directive of a bored TSA drone who changes his gloves at least four times a day; and how the Right is being absurd for objecting to such things.  These are also the people who routinely put out articles wondering why the Democratic party feels comfortable with regularly slamming progressives to the ground and taking their lunch money – and all the while never considering that the one may be relevant to the other.

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  • SoFiMil

    This is a matter that must be dealt with immediately in the lame-duck session of Congress. Worst case scenario, it better pass when the new Congress convenes. Otherwise, Republicans will have hell to pay.

  • SoFiMil

    If there are scanners and pat-downs, no one is exempt.

  • gnomechumpsky

    I hear nothing about pat-downs and scans of Muslims. Are any Muslim women subjected to the groping we often see on You Tube? How about Muslim men? Are any of them going through this? If they aren’t the practice should be discontinued immediately.

    Nobody in the press seems at all interested in this angle, maybe it’s just me?

  • acat

    So, of course, they’re not. “Nothing to see here, all is well, remain calm”.

    Alas.

    An actual, functioning, follow-the-story “fourth estate” is just as necessary to preserving our liberties as the armed forces and the unbiased judiciary.

    Even the much-maligned “yellow journalism” would still look into stuff – biased as anything but different papers biased different ways. This current “we’re not biased at all” lie is very distressing.

    Mew

  • http://www.defeatobama.com DefeatObama.com

    I so support this idea. I also think we should submit everyone who rides the NYC subways to one.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    Of course political correctness, as created and defined by the left, is what got us in this mess to begin with. That’s why we can’t profile, whether it’s full on ethnic profiling or what the Israelis do. The left thinks profiling means one thing, ethnic profiling, and they’re not going to let go of that. And since the media has such a lefty bias….

    Nope, we gotta profile “things”, and thus look for them … wherever. CAIR is being pretty active as well i trying to see to it Muslims aren’t subjected to the same screening processes the rest of us are.

  • acat

    on the scale required for airport screenings, at least.

    There’s a couple uncomfortable facts around profiling that need to be addressed.

    Profiling must start with a data mining operation. The Israeli model uses public and semi-private records – i.e. they’ll check your credit history before you get on a plane. Are we prepared to give government bureaucrats outside of the IRS access to that data? Just to get on a plane? Remember Joe The Plumber? This part could probably be automated, just looking for “red flags”, but there would still be a new batch of government employees with serious access to the innards of our lives.

    Profiling also means keeping people with a specific skill set – the ability to read others – happy and working. Government can do this – air traffic controllers, jobs where the skills are unusual and must be honed, are working and seem reasonably happy – but the bureaucrats staffing TSA do not appear to be at the level required to do the job.

    We’ve merely replaced a number of private and semi-private outfits running the airport metal detectors with a government agency built along the lines of the DMV, not the FAA. That will need to change.

    We also need the TSA to look at all aspects of flight security – not just passengers and flight crew, but maintenance and ramp workers as well. Why aren’t the guys who drive our airline snack boxes (available for $5, please have your credit cards ready, cash not accepted…) screened? Why aren’t the snack boxes themselves screened?

    We’re still, closing in on a decade after 9/11, not taking airplane security seriously.

    Mew

  • streiff

    based on volume of air travelers alone.

    If we are going to fly we going to have to accept some level of risk.

  • gnomechumpsky

    to going through safety precautions even though we don’t fit a profile, but leaving out those we should subject these procedures to in order not to offend them – knowing that these very procedures have been rendered useless as a result.

    We simply will not survive doing things this way.

  • acat

    TSA do check some passengers. They should check more, but … give the TSA a pass for now.

    They check all flight crews. A good background screening would seem to be enough here, but .. overkill beats underkill so .. pass.

    They don’t check ramp workers, baggage handlers, food delivery guys, etc. etc. Big fat red F.

    Security is a joke, so fixing the passenger religious exemption is just a distraction as long as the airline and airport employee exemption is still in place.

    Mew

  • NHConservative0227

    Yes it may not catch every terrorist, but it’s a start. Just alittle common sense in stopping the Arab instead of the housewife, salesman, little kid, or 80 yr old grandma.

  • acat

    Adding ethnic profiling will just piss people off without increasing actual security if the ramp workers can still waltz right past the checkpoints.

    What’s the difference between a 27 year old Arab male passenger and a 27 year old Arab male ramp worker? The former has a higher chance of being randomly selected for a screening.

    Adding ethnic profiling alone is dumb. Fix security so everyone who has access to the plane gets checked.

    Mew

  • NHConservative0227

    about the needs to add security for ramp workers along with everyone else on the plane (except for the pilots). I didn’t explain that well enough in my previous post.

    I just get sick of how this politically correct BS is going to get all of us killed.

    Why is there so much support from all the liberals for the TSA groping law abiding American citizens while these same liberals are for Miranda rights for terrorists, civilian trials for terrorists, and could care less about beefing up the border.

    Also, we need to stop handing out citzenships and visas like they’re candy. The FBI did a great job catching the Somali born US CITIZEN who tried setting off a bomb in Oregon. My point is that people like this shouldn’t even be here in the first place. Same thing with the hijackers who overstayed their visas. It’s a privilege, not a right to be in this country. We desperately need to start using common sense in that it may not be the best idea to allow people of questionable backgrounds into the country from these terrorist hotspots.

  • acat

    As in using the Israeli-style profiling and periodic interview (not interrogation) of visitors. Since this is a much smaller pool than “all air travelers” I’d love to believe the INS (sorry, ICE) could hack it, but .. they seem too busy being a political soccer ball.

    I don’t mind visitors from so-called “hot spots” – as long as we can keep an eye on them.

    Is it fair? No. Who ever promised fair anyway?

    Mew

  • NHConservative0227

    Before you’re granted citizenship or even Visa. Why can’t we do the same here for Muslims? I know the ACLU and the outcry would be hysterical, but we don’t seem too worried about violating the civil liberties of every American in the name of political correctness.

  • renny

    was really heavy with dj’s mocking those who have had bad experiences with TSA procedures and advertising how safe our airlines are with the TSA in place.
    Funny, they hated Bush’ creation of Homeland Security, they screamed for years about Bush’ Patriot Act, they created bogus privacy issues about data mining and overseas cell phone monitoring, but, lo and behold, if the little o wants grandmothers to show their breasts in the public areas of airports, hey! that’s just the price we pay for safety.
    However, today the NY Post reports a survey that finds 71% support scans and pats; however, if we are only 21%, the campaign to opt out was so forceful over Thanksgiving break almost no TSAer used the body scanners this weekend and pat downs were few and far between.
    The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

  • acat

    are issued to people who aren’t expected (in fact, aren’t supposed to) work… so no useful skills are required.

    And that’s the two visa types which are also most overstayed.

    Mew

  • Menlo

    People who have the money to live in another country usually won’t have a problem. People need not have obtained their wealth through skill.

  • OccamsRazor

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