I have to make the obligitory comparison. What do you think would be happening in the liberal mainstream media if Bush were still in office and these TSA searches were going on?
Aside from that, I just have to laugh at this entire TSA search, pat-down thing. First of all, I you have to touch my junk to allow me on an airplane….OK. I don’t get my junked touched that often, by somebody else anyway, so I’ll take it where I can get it. I think it might open up some job opportunities for rappers, because nobody has more experience in junk-touching than hip-hoppers. They do it so casually as part of everyday life, maybe we should hire some of them to train the TSA. We could even start playing rap music at security check-points and that would make the whole touching of the junk seem appropriate. We could call this the Kanye Procedure.
Secondly, is it just me, or are those body scan pictures we see floating around the internet kind of hot? Somebody, right now is developing a website called bodyscanxxx.com, where you can pay a monthly membership to see body scan images from around the world. It will have all kinds of diferent categories…Babes, Asians, BBW.
We could turn all this into a new source of revenue to help fund Homeland Security. If you want a pat down, it costs $1.99 per minute. Hot chicks could be paid for the rights to their body scan images and those could be sold at a profit to the porn industry. If you’re an exhibitionist, you would have to pay for the scan. While were at it, why not install stripper poles with built in metal detectors. Couple of spins with no alarms going off…you’re good to fly!
I could even see Donald Trump launching the Miss Body Scan USA pagent. Ryan Secrest could host.
I know all this sounds fantastic, but it begs the question, Would any of this really be a problem if we handled airport security with some common sense? Before 9/11, how many hi-jackings of U.S. airliners can you recall? Since 9/11, and including it, what group of people have been most likely to try and blow-up or hi-jack an airplane? Why don’t we concentrate on those people? Yes, it’s called profiling and we should do it. Everybody does it. Every business, your friends, the door guy at the club, your waiter, you do it everyday. It’s a basic tool of societal interaction….so let’s allow the cops and TSA to do it too!
I am still amazed at the whole profiling thing. It’s like we’re gonna catch a terrorist and they say “Hey, no fair, you were looking for me”. Muslim terrorists have committed more than 16,000 terror attacks since 9/11. HELLO! Just how many have been committed by caucasian women? Profiling is and always has been one of the best tools law enforcement has!
OS, you say that the islamic attacks won’t ever stop and that they continue to evolve. Profiling will never stop either. Ever. So why is it such an evil thing to use one to combat the other?
One of them will always be there. Which would you rather it be, profiling, or islamic terrorism?
Other Side you talk about profiling like it’s a disease. It happens every day and you do it to. It’s a tool to use like any other. Applied with common sense, shouldn’t that be part of your fluid and ever evolving solution?
As for terrorists recruiting caucasian women…Uh huh, yeah, that’ll happen. Right….but just for giggles let’s say it does…the best way to combat that???? Profile caucasian women who hang out with young muslim men.
that seems like a great idea, funnel the growing racism in this country into profiling. use the fear about brown people to make their lives worse. and fyi, if terrorists see america profiling for middle eastern men, they will recruit caucasian women. this problem won’t just go away with a simple solution. the answer needs to be fluid and ever evolving.
and how outraged was the ‘librul media’ about torture, the build up to the iraq war and the nsa spying? the media gave bush a pass on so many things so saying that they are doing the same thing to obama is false. the media isn’t liberal, its just looking for the next sensational story.