TSA Could Use a Hypocrisy Screening

News flash! Man in photo taken to emergency room for wrist lacerations from other man’s zipper.

This is a real life photo of a TSA inspection. Just exactly how far into this passenger’s pants does this inspector feels he needs to go in order to find a supposed explosive device?

The day before Thanksgiving – aka the busiest travel day of the entire calendar year – the TSA turned off naked body scanners and aggressive pat downs (known by some as “feel ups”) under the weight of an anticipated nationwide grassroots surge of protests (read here).

Let’s think about this for a moment. Anyone of average intelligence or above, regardless of their stance on the “necessity” of this process, can surely see the staggering hypocrisy in this decision. This is a classic case of having your cake and eating it. If the general public is truly so vulnerable as the TSA claims and we are constant targets for terrorizing on- slaughts, then surely the odds of an attack would have been at its pinnacle on Wednesday when more travelers are in the airports than on any other day and would have been a reason to keep these scans and pat downs in tact. Right? 

But this move proves a point better than any critic can. That the old-fashioned metal detectors and baggage X-rays are more than adequate and that this is just another money-making, public-controlling scheme. Of course, you and I had better not dare mention this lest we be added to a “domestic terrorist” list, another name for a head count of those who dare dissent the expansion of government and its meddling in private lives (read here). There are also some medical experts who are now stating that this is a bio hazard that could even become an epidemic with greater consequences and greater odds of occurring than a traveler’s chances of getting blown up (view here)! According to some reports, these inspectors don’t change gloves from one person to the next, leaving you and me vulnerable to all kinds of things, like venereal disease, for example. Yet, we had better not publicly complain or it could be hazardous to our health.

Oh, and for those of you who seldom, if ever, travel internationally and have already decided to use other forms of transportation, you may be able to run, but likely can not hide (read here). Even though it’s still conjecture at this point, the fact of the matter is that Janet Napolitano is already talking about the possibility of expanding security measures to other forms of transportation. And based on what is happening so far, is there really any reason to doubt that it could or even will happen? Can anyone say “highway checkpoints” for private cars some day not far in the future?

It would all be in the name of “counter terrorism”, of course.

It appears that the dodos in our government are slowly but surely forcing the sovereign American individual to….well….become extinct.