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Dem Senator Says She‘s ’Wildly Excited‘ to Skip TSA ’Love Pats’

While some are decrying the new, more invasive security pat-downs at airports as “groping” or even sexual assault, one U.S. Senator is putting a positive spin on the sensitive situation.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., defended the new procedures as necessary security measures and seemed to dismiss public outrage Wednesday in describing the process as little more than “love pats.”

McCaskill insisted the TSA was in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” no-win situation as air travelers would be angry at TSA if Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had succeeded in his attempted underwear bombing last Christmas.  She went onto say the new advanced imaging technology and pat-down procedures are more of a blessing than a curse.

“I’m wildly excited that I can walk through a machine instead of getting my dose of love pats,” Sen. McCaskill said.

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  • Ronko
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:57pm

    Hell no its a violation of my constitutional rights I refuse to do any of these security measures and I would rather save my money then give it to a bunch of corrupt ********. Profiling is the answer its not that hard to do we just need people to get some common sense and grow a spine.

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:33pm

    Then again, the airport could be your one stop “fantasy depot”.

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  • mndjohnson
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:27pm

    terrorist profiling is not torture, it is a necessary and valuable tool to each country, each nation to use to protect their most valuable asset, which are it’s people!

    Don’t waste time, money, profiling your own people, profile the ones strapping on bombs, hijacking airliners, murdering your citizens, your countrymen, women and children. Corrupt Paper Tiger should be the emblem of this current poor excuse of a presidency. Fire the Fed, inform the United Nations they are not getting even a 1 cent from Americans anymore, make the border imprenatrable and fatal if necessary, Republic Protectionism is a must and make it extremely profitable to have industries here. Use our natural oil supplies, build refineries, provide jobs, build nuclear plants and start coal mining again, repeal the 1965 immigration act, enact laws that no longer allow automatic citizenship retroactively to 1979…..the list goes on.

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    • Parkeralan
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:19pm

      How about only non Americans get scanned and frisked.
      Americans go back to pre 9-11 screening.

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    • HEARDENOUGHCRAP
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:58pm

      Well said. Add to that, a FLAT TAX, making AMERICAN companies wholey owned by the pivate sector, abolishment of ANCHOR BABIES, and America NOT being the world’s ATM, or Police Dept..

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:42pm

      What’s the worst affront to civil rights and freedom, profiling for terrorist or forcing all Americans to suffer either state sanctioned sexual assaults or state forced nude photos? Is it better to have a few dozen people questioned, searched and the like each day or all Americans subjected to humiliating techniques which really do NOT advance our safety?

      These police state tactics MUST BE STOPPED if America is to remain the land of the free. Time to prove it’s the home of the brave too!

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  • thebsnetwork
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:27pm

    @DIAMONDBACK

    You can travel by car freely, so you still have that right.
    Flying is not a right. It’s a privilege. No where in the constitution does it say “convenience” is a right.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 1:20am

      Maybe you can share your broom with people whose job requires air travel — or would that be your Batmobile?

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:51pm

      Can I travel to Hawaii freely by car?

      How about my in-laws place in Italy?

      Horse doo-doo.

      These techniques do NOT advance our safety. There nothing more than police state techniques designed for politically correct appeasement. We simply need to adopt the Israeli’s common-sense, longtime effective techniques of profiling for terrorist. Profiling is NOT only based on race. Profiling can an d is done by taking note of suspicious individuals based on their demeanor PLUS some other probable cause, e.g. they’ve recently arrived in the U.S. or returned from a suspect region of the World, they’ve taken flight classes, they’ve made a series of calls to numbers of dubious characters, they have dubious/suspicious associations, ad infinitum.

      They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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  • megaman
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:21pm

    the way that there handling security is more of a curse than a blessing comon

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  • Diamondback
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:18pm

    Yea well she should think of the poor SOB that has to look at her pictures!

    On the other hand, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of brown shirts.

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  • thebsnetwork
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:15pm

    @25R624

    It’s not violating the third amendment. Flying is a privilege, not a right.
    By choosing to fly you are choosing to run the risk of waiving those rights yourself.

    Now if the flying industries was run by the government, you’d be right. But its not. It’s a private industry.

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:21pm

      HEAVILY REGULATED BY GOVERNMENT therefore virtually run by government. Travelling freely is a right. How we travel is our business too! So, not so sure flying isn’t a right. Don’t always take whatever the “courts” say as true and correct. There‘s plenty of evidence they haven’t conducted themselves so honorably the last 100 years or so too!

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:13pm

    Claire McKaskill is one of those arrogant politicians who does not listen to her constituents. When she is interviewed on the talk radio shows in this area she never gives a straight answer. She acted like a school principal speaking to small children at her most recent town hall meetings, chastising people for asking relevant questions, which she never answered. I have no respect for her.

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:27pm

      Neither do the rest of us!

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    • blacksmith
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 4:11am

      This is way off the subject but whatever happened to accents? McCaskill is from Missouri but she sounds like all the other liberals. Do they go to speech coaches or something to lose the regional dialect? I watched the clip of Rockefeller and he does not sound like a West Virginian. Are these people ashamed of their regional dialects or are they all carpetbaggers like Hillary Clinton? The first lady of Arkansas became a senator from New York. Just found it odd.

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  • thebsnetwork
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:09pm

    Meh. It doesn’t bother me. Flying is a privilege, not a right. Your rights are not being violated because you are willingly complying by deciding to fly. People make way too big a deal of little things.

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:26pm

      Go back to Russia or China or whichever Communist state you came from.

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    • eteme
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:34pm

      WRONG…For example: You have to work and work tells you to travel… a lot…you tell work ,”aww gee I don‘t think I can do that I’ll just drive instead…WRONG…your work tells you to take a hike..

      My point is that freq. fliers whom are large in number, are sick and tired of being groped every other flight by some guy or gal or having some person gawk at their naked body ever time they have to get on a flight!! Dam it, all we are asking is to have some sense to this…if you were a freq. flier wouldn’t you like to have a pass to say, “hey I’m ok, you don’t have to grope me today thx for play’in!”

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  • eteme
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:08pm

    if she thinks those are love taps…what does her sig. other think happens in bed??

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  • critterbait
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:06pm

    The only question I realy have is that I,ve havent heard yet is ,HOW MANY TERRORIST HAVE BEEN CAUGHT Getting on a plane in the STATES since 911…MY guess is none…

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    • Highland
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:51am

      We sure haven’t heard of would-be terrorists being stopped by TSA agents, have we? Meanwhile, TSA thwarted a devastating manicure when they seized by 80+ year old mother‘s nail scissors on her trip to the Mayo Clinic for evaluation of her freakin’ leukemia. Yeah, she was a real threat.

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  • 25R624
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:05pm

    Two words: Fourth Amendment.

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:24pm

      Three words, The Patriot Act.

      It did away with our 4th Amendment rights although techinically it can’t because it is just legislation and legislation cannot trump the Constitution but then we have courts controlled by corrupt and criminal judges so ….

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:41pm

      I get your spirit, but you cannot do away with rights.

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  • vonryansexpress
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:02pm

    ERRATA: “The invasion of the scanner isn’t what bothers me the most. The potential for ‘bad rads’, even though we’re assured the technology is beyond that, is the danger that no one will experience until it is discussed by your oncologist.”

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  • vonryansexpress
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:00pm

    should read ” … no one will discuss”

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  • teahugger
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:56pm

    Neither prospect sounds good to me. I have a trip scheduled in December and am thinking of putting a rubber prosthetic member in my crotch to see what the tsa people think of that one!

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  • vonryansexpress
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:55pm

    Ms. McCaskill would get excited over a free crispy creme … she’s not the most discerning critter.

    The invasion of the scanner isn’t what bothers me the most. The potential for ‘bad rads’, even though were assured the technology is beyond that, is the danger that no on will experience until it is discussed by your oncologist.

    My real anger is still directed at the Islamic terrorists that haven’t been smitten yet. They’re the source of this degeneration in our civil liberties and our lives. Keep it in perspective Americans.

    The enemy is not the the TSA, the enemy is the enemy.

    Some of that enemy are other citizens that strangle the national consensus to prevail and put us at risk for more terror and cause our military to be attacked because of the crazed domestic allegations that are rendered by Americans in private and public life.

    How many troopers died additionally because men such as Michael Moore decried the Iraq war effort as Iraqi blood for oil? How many Americans were transported in bags because of the voices at Daily Kos and Huffington Post and even dare we say it, the U.S. Congress and the Democratic Parties’ institutions?

    The terror war is not over. This airport security fight is a manifestation of a long campaign that could have been ended much earlier if we did not have the fifth column within our own Republic.

    Know all your enemies.

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:16pm

      Amen! Well said!!!

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    • Midwest Belle
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:45pm

      Excuse me? The scanners are not necessary, profiling IS necessary.

      Grandmothers and children should not be submitted to this crap. I won’t submit to this either. I hate flying anyway and this just clinches the no-fly deal for me. Permanently.

      You don’t win a war on terror by terrorizing your own citizens. We’ve lost more rights under this pres than any before. The TSA is not about saving lives – it’s about controling people. The wrong people unfortunately.

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  • mamawalker
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:55pm

    The truth is that we have to go after the freaking terrorist and that means PROFILE those who have been attacking us – it is not brain surgery – small children and elderly people are being targeted but we can’t do anything to make people think we are profiling Muslims…are you kidding me??? This has to stop!!!! Thank God for the pilots and others who are brave enough to say NO WAY! I will be driving, that’s for sure!!!

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:09am

      how do you profile an inside job ????
      maybe if we get a chip inplanted in our forehead that says
      hail to Satan we can skip the pat downs and the naked body
      scans.

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  • tower7femacamp
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:51pm

    James T Kirk knew how to deal with the TSA and body scanners
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2NYibs5A7Y

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:49pm

    Just wondering. I think this pat down IS crossing an invisible barrier to my person. What we are really debating now is the quantitative value of AIR. How much of the AIR around me is MY air?

    Because if you are tangled up in a “sexual abuse” debate, you will never reach the answer.

    And how old does a person have to be to be considered fair “pat down” game? Chidren? Adults? Virgins? Victims of abuse? Look Washington. I’ll even let you borrow my de-coder ring. It’s valid.

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    • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:07pm

      Children under the age of 12 are SUPPOSED to be exempt. I’ve seen a few too many 3 and 4 years olds though. I fear we now have a new profession for the child molesters.

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    • OneRepublic4us
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:51am

      @LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA Those are my thoughts exactly, just like criminals target law as their profession and pedophiles target teaching as a profession, perverts will be drawn to make the TSA a career choice.

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  • marklross
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:48pm

    BIGOT – I guess this idiot doesn’t care about the disabled, in wheelchairs, like me who can’t go through the scanner, so must submit to the humiliation EVERYTIME…

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:03pm

      Or the little three year old boys and girls crying hysterically because after EVERYONE tells them not to let ANYONE touch you, they molest them while their parents watch in anguish!

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:06pm

      Tell them you are a professional stripper/massage therapist, pull out a contract for services and have them sign!

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    • dcwu
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:49am

      Tell them you have AIDS.

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  • J.C. McGlynn
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:43pm

    Bimbo!

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:42pm

    McCaskill is a FOOL! And more than likely, the Christmas Day bomber would NOT HAVE been singled out for further scrutiny for fear that TSA personnel might be called out as RACIST. After all, that guy was a YOUNG, MALE MUSLIM. Remember, political correctness rules the day. Feel up granny but not a slime ball MUSLIM MANIAC like him!

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    • LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:59pm

      Not to mention the ‘Christmas’ bomber not succeeding had NOTHING to do with airport security. I doubt they would have figured him out anyway, for example, when is a sack not a ‘sack’? (I apologize to our more sensitive commenters for that off color remark. But I still giggle at it (’ç’) lol

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    • teahugger
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:04pm

      And how terribly humiliating for those grannies (and others), who have incontinence problems, to have their incontinence products revealed by scanner, or felt up. I can think of a number or physical problems that people would be embarassed to have anyone know about. And don‘t think for a minute that the tsa agents don’t talk about it over lunch! All the while a healthy young middle eastern male would get a pass. How is this keeping us safe?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 3:22pm

      Michigan attorney Kurt Haskel witnessed two important events, neither of which has been widely reported although his testimony and collaborating testimony is available via You Tube videos of local news coverage including Mlive (Michigan live), NPR interviews,Fox News, Antiwar radio, and Alex Jones Prison Planet.
      Mr. Haskel reports that he and his wife were sitting on the floor in a crowed room playing cards when he witnessed the so called “sharp dressed man.” Haskel, who speaks carefully as an attorney, states that “While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit”. He says the suited “Indian” man asked ticket agents whether a supposed “Sudanese refugee” (the terrorist, Mutallab) could board without a passport”. “The guy said, ‘He’s from Sudan and we do this all the time.’” Mr.. Haskel makes clear that this does not mean that Mutallab did not have a passport, only that the well dressed man attempted and evidently succeeded in getting him on a plane with out displaying a passport. Haskel has clarified that the Indian looking man could have been Pakistani or other, that he would not been able to discern nationality. Mr.. Haskel has confirmed that normal surveillance video would have been taken in this crowed departure area. This is the essence of Haskel’s testimony, until the flight landed in Detroit.
      read the rest here
      http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Underwear-Bomber-More-by-pete-johnson-100106-351.html
      the naked body scanners were already built before this Bomber was caught.

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  • Midwest Belle
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:39pm

    Be excited all you want about the machines. How often do you fly? Are you at all worried about raciation? Does it bother you that anyone close to the machine can see your full, naked body?

    Enjoy, because I sure won’t.

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  • HillCountryPatriot
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:38pm

    This women is just excited to go through the scanning machine so someone is finally going to see her in the nude… even though it will be a grey, fuzzy, and grainy image.

    Hmm? It’s probably the same with or without the machine.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:44pm

      actually it isnt a grey fuzzy image, this is just the image shown to you. the actual image can count the pimples on you butt have a nice day :)

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:05pm

      See her in the nude?

      Results for screener: “I’m blind!!!Blind!!!”

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    • FUBARSNAFU
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:02pm

      My God, I’d have to bleach my eyes out for a day or two if i was her scanner at TSA!

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  • TENJAX
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:36pm

    Do it every time you go to work and then we’ll talk.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:58pm

      I would not pat her down with your hands

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:02pm

      I would be she gets a pass by the scanners to the congressional buildings. What do you think?

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:07pm

      Yeah, “love pats” makes me wonder just what kind of stuff this lady is into after hours, or in her office at different times.

      Pray everyone to the father that he will heal our land, guide us, and protect us from our enemies.

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    • cheezwizshabaz
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:16pm

      well, to each his own, if you enjoy being felt up by strangers. I’ll drive my RV.

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:51pm

      What happened to the dems at least supporting civil liberties? There nothing but full out statests any more. what i am shocked about is that most republicans are against this. I would guess its because there not in power but maybe, just maybe this time, this 100th time they are for real.

      Nay. not a chance in hell

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:37pm

      @AnarchCapitalist

      I’m kind inclined to agree with you. But this time around seems mighty genuine. If republicans can finally see why this is wrong, well, then there is hope.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 12:42am

      She’s really gonna love the cavity searches then…Enjoy Claire!

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    • 2
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 5:20am

      Clair is a goon. That’s probably as close to Sex as she will ever get again. What a hack. For four years She has bent over for Obama and now for two She’s going to be He rown Women. What a joke.

      Missouri’s biggest heist was taking Jim Talents seat.
      Letting Micheal J. Fox Lie about steam cell funding!

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 5:36am

      Senator McCaskill doesn’t mind the “love pats” by TSA. Here’s the solution to this problem: Let the ******** like Senator McCaskill get scanned and patted down because they like it. Then, institute profiling (like in Israel) for conservatives. Why should the government keep only 20% of the people happy?

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    • Conservative Grinch
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 7:58am

      tower7femacamp – “I would not pat her down with your hands”

      From the looks of things Sen. Claire McCaskill is a lesbian. I think that she has fantasies of being on the receiving end of a forced bi-finger cavity search.

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    • Frameman
      Posted on November 18, 2010 at 5:04pm

      If these sorts of things happened to an arrested terrorist it would be called torture by this stupid woman and all her commie drones.

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    • Minority Retort
      Posted on November 20, 2010 at 3:13am

      I would like to take the remaining time to…consider that she probably knows whether anyone would ogle her scanned images and keep them on file for later viewing…Hmmmm

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