Replace, Don't Reform, Airport Security

06-19-2009 • http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/4989

Earlier this month, the House of Representatives voted 310-118 to keep the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) from strip-searching passengers with millimeter-wave scanners at airport checkpoints. Screeners will grope us instead.

Millimeter-waves function like Superman’s X-ray vision, peering through your clothing to the body beneath. You don’t undress; the scanner does that for you. Meanwhile, screeners leering at the monitor and ostensibly checking for weapons can check you out instead.

Prisons have used millimeter-wave and similar technologies for years. No wonder the TSA, which frequently confuses passengers with prisoners, has tried since its beginnings in 2002 to push us into these pornographic scanners. But public outrage always stymied those efforts; there’s something unutterably creepy about government agents inspecting naked citizens. Michael Chertoff, then Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, finally growl

1 Comments in Response to Replace, Don't Reform, Airport Security

Comment by PureTrust

Entered on: 6/20/2009 7:45:56 AM

THIS IS THE AREA TO PLACE THE COMMENT INTO.

Seems to me that all this internal U. S. A. security stuff is happening because Government has left the country borders open for so long that there could be any number of "destroy-America-groups" in place throughout the country.

Why have the borders remained open for so long that now we need to scrutinize the interior like this? World history has shown that security at the borders of a country is a thing that is vital to any nation.

Since all Congress members should have known about national security for the last 50 years or more (and did, because we have the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.), perhaps the "destroy-America-groups" have been in place for a long time, right in Washington D.C., right in Congress, Congress members themselves.

Isn't it time we get to the root of the problem? We say things like " Replace, Don't Reform, Airport Security." Well, maybe it should be more like REPLACE, DON'T REFORM, THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

You can help starting today, no matter who you are. Nobody is too little to help. Run for Government office, any Government office, maybe even for Congress of the United States of America.

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