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I'm actually starting to get on board with all this. They'll probably start backing off with the security in coming weeks, but I hope everyone with a smart ass comment today get a lubed finger in the ass to go along with their groping.

Also, you know a couple closet homos are going to be outed today when their dick moves during the pat down in front of their family.

What is happening today, again?

From all the reports ... nothing.

But it was supposed to be some kind of "national opt-out day" where everyone was supposed to opt-out of the nudie scanners in favor of the more time consuming digital-genital sexual harassment as some sort of protest.

I think there was talk on the interwebz of an "opt out" protest where everyone upset about the new security at the airport will choose to be groped instead of scanned.

The object, I'm gathering, is to makes the delays completely unbearable AND make snarky comments to TSA employees working round the clock at $12 per hour to feed their families.

It's especially important to make them feel bad about themselves, imply they are part of a societal underclass, and accuse them of being sex offenders for doing a task they have been ordered to do in the toughest job market of the last 70 years.

From all the reports ... nothing.

Yeah, this.

Yeah, the Douchebag Quotient is off the charts here. I am with this guy, quoted in the Wilmington paper:


"I don't really care about that. If the man wants to take my picture naked as hell, that's fine with me," Crump said. "I don't think I have anything they haven't seen before. I spent six years in the service and taking showers with 35 other naked men. It's better than crashing from 30,000 feet in the air."



*Other than the part about the service and the 35 naked men.

the Douchebag Quotient is off the charts here

Pretty much. As f-dallas pointed out, it's not like the security officers at the TSA decided on their own to start molesting passengers. This is like yelling at the pimply faced teenager behind the counter because you don't like testing products on animals.

F-dallas you are great in this thread. I will be stealing your lines for my facebook

Zak told me he's gone through the full body scanner four times now, and that smirks, giggles, and derisive pointing from rude TSAworkers are not the way to start your flying experience

Funny, I remember reading that somewhere too. NY Times Facebook feed?

No.

This is like yelling at the pimply faced teenager behind the counter because you don't like testing products on animals.

It's actually like yelling at the pimply faced teenager behind the counter because they stopped serving breakfast 5 minutes ago, but I see your point.

"My first cavity search"

TSA, rockin the cisco 7940 phones...



(hint, if your focus is on the phone you're missing the point)

Hitchens weighs in:


In order for us to take them even remotely seriously, our Homeland Security officials should by now have had no alternative but to announce a series of random body-cavity searches some months ago. At least that might have had a deterrent effect and broken the long tradition of waiting for the enemy to dictate all the terms, all the time. It is a certainty that this deadly back-passage tactic will be tried. It is equally a certainty that it will find us even more defenseless than before.

...

While we pay salaries to thousands and thousands of dogged employees to glare suspiciously at shampoos and shoes and toners, the homicidal adversary discards those means as soon as they are used and switches to another. How they must chortle when they see how sensitive we are to the "invasion of privacy" involved in a close-up grope or a full-on body scan. In preparing their own bodies for paradise, they know no such inhibition. If they guess that we will not even think about how to pre-empt the appalling anal strategy, they so far guess right.




linc

It's pretty rare that I disagree with Hitchens, but in this case I think he misses a key point.

The analogy I'd draw is to a home security system, or maybe The Club. Any skilled thief wanting to break in can still do so, sure. But the real value is in deterrence.

I think his main point is that the value of every added measure that gets implemented is just diminishing returns. You see very little extra benefit to tactics that are reactionary, highly annoying, invasive, and expensive.

You see very little extra benefit to tactics that are reactionary, highly annoying, invasive, and expensive.

I just don't know whether this is correct. Part of me thinks that all this hysteria in the press these days has the bad guys sitting around in a cave somewhere, laughing their asses off... and not hijacking more planes.

(Simplistic, I know, but you catch my drift...)

The goal of terrorism is to make people live in fear.

Anyone who thinks the terrorists haven't won hasn't been paying attention.

A-freekin-men, Talon. Bushites may have tossed out that there have been a few other attempts that HLS took care of before they could take off, and we hear about the guy with the bomb in his briefs, and the guy with the stuff in his shoe, but nothing on the 9/11 scale at all.

AQ did their big plot, and now they keep jabbing here and there to see when we'll soften up maybe, but honestly if you were AQ, wouldn't it be against your jihad to have another man touch your genitals? I mean, that's gotta be in the Koran right next to the 72 virgins.

You know what?


You guys are right- we all are overreacting and probably should just stay in our basements

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Anyone feeling that BMA found Fred's account on the library computer and started hacking him?

BMA, I take back EVERYTHING mean I ever said about you, please don't come looking for my family.

I'm not saying we're overreacting. I'm saying the terrorists have won because they accomplished their goal. We lost, and we're just trying to prevent further damage, which of course, just plays into their hand.

The War On Terror is very shortsighted because on one hand, it's totally reactionary to things that happened yesterday, and on the other hand, it's predicated on the notion that we can somehow kill every terrorist. However, every time we "smoke 'em out" and kill a terrorist we just create three more terrorists hell-bent on revenge.

The only way to stop this downward spiral is to give them a lot less stuff to bitch about. Solve the Israel-Palestinian problem, and much of this mess goes away. But there's no easy solution for that.

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