TSA Head Urges Screening Compliance, Blames Passengers for Delays
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CHICAGO (The Blaze/AP) — Holiday travelers dismayed by airport body scans planned protests at bustling airports Wednesday, while the head of the nation’s transport security agency urged passengers to comply with searches to reduce the possibility of delays on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
A loosely organized effort dubbed National Opt-Out Day plans to use flyers, T-shirts and, in one case, a Scottish kilt to highlight what some call unnecessarily intrusive security screenings. Others feared holdups: More than 40 million people plan to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to AAA, with just more than 1.6 million flying – a 3.5 percent increase in fliers from last year.
Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Wednesday that his agency is “fully staffed” to deal with problems, but that travelers should expect delays because of the planned protests at airports across the country.
In what may be a sign of things to come, Pistole blamed passengers for any problems related to the screenings. “I just feel bad for the traveling public that’s just trying to get home for the holidays,” Pistole said, noting that TSA screeners “just want to get you through.”
No serious disruptions were reported at any major airports early Wednesday.
Robert Shofkom wasn’t too worried about delayed flights, maybe just strong breezes.
The 43-year-old from Georgetown, Texas, said he planned for weeks to wear a traditional kilt – sans skivvies – to display his outrage over body scanners and aggressive pat-downs while catching his Wednesday flight out of Austin.
“If you give them an inch, they won’t just take in inch. Pretty soon you’re getting scanned to get into a football game,” the IT specialist said.
Shofkom was momentarily disheartened when his wife informed him Tuesday that the Austin airport doesn’t yet have body scans. But he decided to wear the kilt anyway, a show of solidarity with fellow protesters who have taken to Facebook and other websites to tout plans for similarly revealing travel outfits.
One Internet-based protest group called We Won’t Fly said hundreds of activists would go to 27 U.S. airports Wednesday to pass out fliers with messages such as “You have the right to say, `No radiation strip search! No groping of genitals!’ Say, `I opt out.’”
“If 99 percent of people normally agree to go through scanners, we hope that falls to 95 percent,” said one organizer, George Donnelly, 39. “That would make it a success.”
If enough people opt for a pat-down rather than a body scan, security-line delays could quickly cascade.
Body scans for passengers chosen at random take as little as 10 seconds. New pat-down procedures, which involve a security worker touching travelers’ crotch and chest areas, can take 4 minutes or longer.
Speaking on CBS’ “Early Show,“ Pistole urged travelers to ”be prepared” for the scanners, and reassured them that the images can’t be relayed elsewhere.
“If you go through (a screener), it’s a blurred image seen by a security officer in another office. The images are not capable of being stored or transmitted,” Pistole said.
The full-body scanners show a traveler’s physical contours on a computer in a private room removed from security checkpoints. But critics say they amount to virtual strip searches.
Jonathan Schaeffer was planning to head to the Baltimore airport, where he said he would hand out copies of the constitution and a pamphlet explaining how to opt out of the full-body search.
“I think it should be emphasized that . the delays are because of the protocol that the TSA is refusing to revise,” he said.
About 70 airports nationwide have more than 400 of the refrigerator-sized imaging units. Only around 20 percent of travelers are asked to go through them, but passengers cannot opt out of both the scan and the pat-down once they have been randomly selected for the enhanced searches.
Officials say the procedures are necessary to ward off terror attacks like the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound plane last Christmas by a Nigerian man who stashed explosives in his underwear.
Several travel companies, including Travelocity, planned on-site monitoring at airports Wednesday to try to gauge where and why delays happen. But with a vicious storm already hindering travel in Western states Tuesday, determining if weather or protests are behind delays across the vastly interconnected air travel system could be nearly impossible.
A storm that crippled much of the Pacific Northwest Monday and Tuesday was expected to ramp up Wednesday, closing highways in Wyoming and Idaho and forcing a blizzard warning in Utah. A handful of flights were canceled at Salt Lake City International Airport Tuesday evening, although it wasn’t clear if they had been grounded because of the storm.
The weather was shaping up to make travel difficult outside of the Northwest, too. Severe storms could delay air travelers and drivers from St. Louis to Tulsa, Okla., and heavy rain was also forecast in a stretch of the country from Ohio to eastern Iowa. Windy conditions were expected in New England, which could also create potential snags for air travelers.
“I wouldn’t want to be out and about today,” said Jeff Savadel, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Bismarck, N.D. noting that bad weather including freezing drizzle and blizzards are forecast in North and South Dakota over the holiday period. He said poor traveling conditions “are a good bet.”
At a main checkpoint in Atlanta on Tuesday, a few passengers asked to step through a scanner grimaced before walking through, while others seemed more bemused than annoyed.
Out of 30 asked to go through during a half-hour period, just two opted for a pat-down. Karen Keebler, 54, of Atlanta said later that her main concern was the low-level radiation. The TSA says the scans emit very low radiation and aren’t a health risk.
“I just think the less radiation the better, and if you can opt out, you need to,” she said.
Wednesday’s planned protest is the brainchild of Brian Sodergren of Ashburn, Va., who constructed a one-page website early this month urging people to decline scans.
But public interest boomed only after an Oceanside, Calif., man named John Tyner resisted a scan and groin check at the San Diego airport with the words, “If you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested.” A cell-phone video of the incident went viral.
Tyner’s words became famous, spawning online sales of T-shirts, bumper stickers and even underwear emblazoned with the words, “Don’t Touch My Junk!” A Google search of the phrase on Tuesday registered 4.2 million hits.
Saturday Night Live jumped on the controversy last weekend, with a minute-long skit equating the TSA with a dating service. The skit ends: “It’s our business to touch yours.”
Pilots and flight attendants also had complained about being subject to body scans and pat-downs. On Friday the TSA said pilots could avoid the more intense screening. TSA spokesman Nick Kimball confirmed the same for flight attendants Tuesday.
Both groups must show photo ID and go through metal detectors. If that sets off an alarm, they may still get a pat-down in some cases, he said.
Publicity or no, some predicted little fallout from the planned protest, with many travelers at airports Tuesday deriding the effort and saying the stepped-up security measures made them feel safer.
Marc Gruber, eating lunch at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International airport, agreed.
“I think there ought to be two flights,” said the 53-year-old from Jacksonville, Fla., “one for people who want to be scanned and one for people who don’t want to be scanned.”
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AP writers Blake Nicholson in Bismarck, N.D.; Ted Shaffrey in New York; Cara Rubinsky and Kate Brumback in Atlanta; Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Alabama; and Tony Winton in Miami contributed to this report.
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Comments (74)
Mick
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:03pmSurrender your rights, surrender your libery, surrender your freedom. Do you feel safe now?
Report Post »Mick
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:06pmSorry, I learned to spell in South Carolina public schools. That should read:
Surrender your rights, surrender your liberty, surrender your freedom. Now do you feel safe?
Report Post »tbb
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:00pm“If you go through (a screener), it’s a blurred image seen by a security officer in another office. The images are not capable of being stored or transmitted,” Pistole said. That is a blatant LIE! They have been saved and transmitted and put out on the web. The images are not blurred. They can tell everything about you the only thing they can’t tell about you is if you are carrying explosives.
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:42pmLike the Judge said, the 4th amendment says that WE own our bodies. If they used some common sense and used profiling there would be no need for this ridiculous invasion of privacy. The underpants bomber was a Nigerian coming in from Holland I believe, why wan’t he pulled from the line and interrogated and patted down? Blaming the people for objecting to physical assault is typical of this administration’s mind set.
Report Post »Vegasharleypig
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:15pmI can’t believe how many people are happy to be sheep. It is really sad. People talk but when it comes to take action they just smile and bend over.
Report Post »Freedom1984
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:06pmWell duh…of course they are going to blame the PASSANGERS. These people don’t take any responisibility at all…
And I personally think it’s more about a “nudge, nudge, here, and a push, push there”…
I AM GLAD AMERICANS ARE STANDING UP TO THIS KIND OF CRAP. We have been pushed around long enough, and SLOWLY, EVER SO SLOWLY the PROGRESSIVES, AND COMMUNISTS ARE taking away our FREEDOM’S.
And because most people are generally nice…we go along with it…. but where will it end??? And one day we will probably forgot where it began… (remember we were once pissed off about just taking off our shoes????)
WE CAN NEVER FORGET.
Report Post »Waggedy Wabbit
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:27pmWe will continue to lose not just freedoms but EVERYTHING this country WAS about. I read comments on here and if it was not so sad.i would piss myself laughing.Talk about TAKING the country back when this sickening diplay goes on at airports against our own? The attacks against us from our own government not a wimper from NONE in congress or the NEW-HIRES.For too many on this site,to stand up is a bother or you worry what is next.REMEMBER—-these BASTARDS can only take what WE let them take!!!! IF and WHEN the rest say ENOUGH you OTHERS just stay home this is going to be way too UGLY for you!!! You will allow a TSA AGENT to grab a set but you will not???
Report Post »eddiebonline
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:01pmThe filter alarm in my brain is going off and screaming, “Don’t write this stuff!” But I can’t help myself…lol
Top Things to Say to Your Friendly Neighborhood TSA agent as they begin your pat down:
1. What‘s that perfume you’re wearing? (Best said with googly eyes and a raised eyebrow)
2. Scratch harder! To the left please!
3. (Look to the ceiling take a deep breath and let it out slowly while grinning)
4. Was I suppose to tell you I have a disease before or after you put your hand in there?
5. So you wanna get a cup of coffee later?
6. Married?
7. Ok, you go first. Then I pat you down.
8. Should I pay you now or later?
9. As they begin…for guys…turn your head and cough. Then do the same to the other side.
10. My wife is next in line and if you touch me she’ll kick your butt.
11. Santa’s watching. Don’t be naughty.
As many people have said, most of the TSA agents just want to do their job and are caught in the middle of this. If you’re caught in a situation where you have one of these people, make it known you don’t like it, but don’t make their day a bad one. Explain your disgust with the ‘policy’ and let them know to have a happy Thanksgiving.
Ed
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:30pmI was with you until the “just doing their job” comment.
Their job is evil. Even disregarding their molesting us or taking porn pictures of us, they are and have for their lifetime chosen to willfully violate our 4th Amendment rights. They are government agents, they may not search me, Constitutionally, without a warrant, under any circumstances. Ergo, they are and have always chosen to do evil. As far as I’m concerned their lives need to be made a living hell, they need to be shown no respect, and they need to be constantly shamed and verbally berated. In short, to hell with them and “just doing their job”. It is really just that black and white.
Report Post »Camo Pants
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:15pm*COUGH* Married? :D *COUGH*
Report Post »FedUP
Posted on November 25, 2010 at 2:09amCute comments.
The truth is if I could be sure that the scans were not very revealing I would probably be okay with it because I do not fly very often. But, on the pictures depicted on television they always have stuff blurred out so it is hard for me to determine for my self (based on my own personal level of modesty) whether I would be comfortable with this procedure or not. So, should the time come that I would have to fly and the machines are still being used I think what I will do is ask the TSA agent if I could step into the booth and first see his/her image before I determine if I want to go through myself. I definitely will not do the pat down as I have seen how and where they touch on news reports. I realize they say you can’t change your mind once your there and to that I would have to say- you want to bet. Unless they want to drag me through kicking and screaming- go ahead. But, they will have a law suit once its all over.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:56amPistole—-you are worthless. Why don’t you take the responsibility for what you are doing? Between the cancer causing scanners and the over aggressive FEEL UPS, YOU ARE CREATING THE HAVOC. NOT THE REST OF US! You are nothing but just another whitehouse puppet following the communist party line of OBUNGLER! Those scanners are putting out a lot more radiation than the government is admitting. You are all A BUNCH OF LIARS!
Report Post »WeveAlreadyWon
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:56amGet your “Don’t Touch My Junk” Gear just in time for the Holidays!
Let that Overzealous TSA Official know what’s on your mind as you get molested.
Makes a great Christmas gift!
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Report Post »temple62
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:56amDo you want fires with that? And once again we “angry Americans” have proof of how the Obama Administration continues to miss the mark and fall short of the security goal for air travelers. American have failed to see the underlying motive, this agency is “make work group” simply going through the motions so their neighbors won’t be too puzzled that they indeed are able to draw a government paycheck. They have not intelligence, they have no qualifications, they simple breathe air, take up airport space and cannot under any circumstances justify their existence. And by the way the greeters job at Wal-mart was already taken when they applied!
Report Post »Wilma
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:49amFor more TSA horror stories:
http://www.thousandsstandingaround.org/
We need to clearly understand our rights and stand up for them. According to Judge Napolitano, no one can touch us without our consent, unless we are in prison, otherwise it is considered assault.
Report Post »cabnetdude
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:41amLine up America! Bend over and take the Dark Lords brand of communism. The Constitution is meaningless to these filty Planet of the Apes minions. You have NO rights under this regime. The homeland security lizards have become the new Nazi SS.
Report Post »Susan Harkins
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:32amThe slow squeeze has begun. The herders always start at the edges of the herd and slowly work the cattle toward the center, rounding them up. The airports are the edges, as they are the portals to other countries.
Do you know why so many Jewish people died in Germany? Because they behaved just like these people who accepted being routed through these scanners — only, at the time, they were boxcar doors.
Report Post »cabnetdude
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:54amYou are absolutely right on. If Americans want to be free then they need to act like it. Refuse this Nazi regime and their attempts to destroy our freedoms.
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:12pmsusan harkins: This is a test by the progressives to see what our endurance will be when push comes to shove. It is a humbling of the unwashed masses to see how far we will allow ourselves to be humiliated as they bruise our egos and push forward to silence us. What can be more detrimental to our dignity or self-respect then to photograph our naked bodies on airport scanners and molest us with pat-downs, all the while going against our 4th Amendment rights?
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:39pmI have it from a very good source (a concentration camp survivor) that the Jews always hoped for the best, and thought it was all temporary, right up to the end (anhilation).
Sounds like the attitude on parade today at airports.
Report Post »takingonissues.com
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:31amBefore you know it we will have to watch our pumpkin pies as we travel to Grandma’s during the holiday season…they’ll be doing car searches next. Watch out America, you voted for Hope and Change and that is exactly what you got….watch what you wish for……
Report Post »jerryod1627
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:29amThis is not about airline security, it is about training the american people to do as they are told, without question, and if you do not do as you are told then you will be punished by big brother, ie fines, or lengthy questioning to be sure you are not a threat! Right now you are ordered to walk into an x-ray chamber, after we are properly trained what kind of chamber might we be ordered into?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:43amExactly correct Jerry. Even if it were about “security”, it would be wrong and a clear violation of our rights. But as you point out, it’s not about security at all. I will never, ever submit to this kind of thing. I can refuse airplanes now by choice, but it sounds like they’re pushing this outside of airports now. I will not submit, I will not concede, I will not allow them to do this to me or my beautiful wife nor my two beautiful children. Never. I refuse to go quietly into this good night.
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 3:05pmAbout time someone came up with the truth. JUST BE GOOD LITTLE CHILDREN AND DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD! The current government thinks we are all stupid morons.
Report Post »mrclean
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:35pmWell, looks like the majority are eager to please those in charge as they gladly get patted and rayed.
Guess we never counted on them to do any different. Still, it’s a little disapointing to witness so many with no backbone, so incredibly willing to sell out. They are making this socialist-communist-Islamic takeover of the US a cake walk for oblahma.
Report Post »Lilly Joy
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:26amRacial profiling is a no-no but groping someones genitals is acceptable? Lawsuits are filed every day because someone is “offended” by something in our society. Well, this is more than just offensive. It is molestation.
Report Post »janiha
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:15amI think someone should pat down John Pistole and make him remove his hair piece when they do it.
Report Post »Then lets see what he thinks about all this. I do not trust ‘comb-overs’, people that comb their hair from one side of their head to cover the other, or people that wear hair pieces. Generally, they are not be to trusted because they are all vain and unwilling to accept things as they are. They are usually hiding a deep seated insecurity. Come on Pistole, you are so willing to have your folks look in other people’s under pants, show us what you look like without the lid.
dontbotherme
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:13amPeople will do what they are told to do because they just want to get to their destination. Soon thugs like those bullies from SEIU will be in charge, Obama will have his brown shirts in place, and people will wake up & wonder what happened to freedom.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:11amfrom the Blog…Thank You, President Obama
Report Post »A joke right?
Chett
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:10amI am sad for what used to be my country. I read where if you arrive on a flight from Europe you have to do thru the checks when you get OFF the plane in the US. I guess I will not ever be coming ‘home’.
Report Post »janiha
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:09amI think someone should pat down John Pistole and make him remove his hair piece
Report Post »when they do it, then see what he thinks about it. I do not trust ‘comb-overs’ or
people that wear hair pieces. They are vain, unwilling to accept things as they are
and most are hiding a deep seated insecurity.
john seven eighteen
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:06amOf course he wants to blame passengers. Surely it can’t be the ridiculously intrusive pat-downs they force us to endure! What an idiot!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:59amHoly cow what’s next for us. They can’t scoop up our liberties fast enough. Don‘t fly if you don’t absolutely have to, if the airlines feel this in thier pocketbooks they will jump in along with the flight attendents unions and the pilots unions.
Report Post »sacrificeforkids
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:59amHere’s a question…If ALL people need to be “Patted Down ‘“ or ”’Micro-Waved ” why is our luggage not opened up, and each article gone throgh.?? What is next.. Crusise Ship , Public Transportation, Federal Buildings, Post Office’s .?? Next time I fly< I am going to pack my clothes in my carry on, step up to the ''TSA Officers" wearing flip flops and a speedo::"" what a site..
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:44pmI love the regimental kilt idea, let some TSA jerk run thier hands up that guys inner thigh, boy is he in for a suprise. I love men in kilts so it is a treat for me as a bonus!
Report Post »Camo Pants
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:12pmThat’s a good idea… Don’t forget to bring a tight belly shirt to! :)
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:43pm@Kate
I got married in my family tartan kilt, a classic Prince Charley arrangement (tuxedo top and kilt), in Scotland under the eves of a castle even. The only hand I had to worry about going up my kilt that day was rather welcome to do so any time she so pleased. :)
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:55amI blame the left wing idiots that want a police state.
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:11amBlaming the people for the TSA’s over-reaching and intrusive seaches is true Liberal spin! Did I forget to mention inefective searches…It time to take the country back people!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:55amThis is nothing but a “show” … you don’t go after the “things” you go after the people who want to blow up the planes!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 26, 2010 at 2:49pmI blame it on THE PATRIOT ACT ! That was the key to destroying the 4th
Report Post »Amendment. i will post it here because most Americans don’t know about it.
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. The amendment specifically also requires search and arrest warrants be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in the American Revolution. Search and arrest should be limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it.
Chett
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:52amIs there any impact from the protest?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 10:58amProbably not. People, including a lot of people that voted with us in the election for tea party candidates, are quite willing to give up their liberties when the rubber meets the road. All they want is “to get through it and done, at least we feel safe”. And they’ll respond the same way if we start seeing roadside random searches of cars, or door to door random searches of homes.
Roughly only 13% of the American population were Revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War. The rest were content to let Britain do as it would, or were actively for Britain. We are, and have always been, in the minority throughout history. We gave it a hell of a shot in 1776, the best shot we’ve ever given. Unfortunately it seems as if a lot of people are cut from the cloth that craves authority to dictate over it.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:19amNapolitano said , on Fox news, trains are next.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:54amPassenger aren’t the ones NOT profiling. You want to move the line along .. don’t pick on little kids and grandma on her way to see the grandkids. You know who it is — who are the terrorists — they have shown themselves time and time again to be a certain TYPE … Profile if you want to move the line along!
Report Post »WeveAlreadyWon
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 11:58amGet your “Don’t Touch My Junk” Gear just in time for the Holidays!
Report Post »Let that Overzealous TSA Official know what’s on your mind as you get molested.
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grandmaof5
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:22pmFunny, I just heard the news and they were moving the people who wanted pat downs to a different line so it didn’t hold up everyone else. I think this is a manufactured story by the left to tick people off and hopefully it isn’t working. Just typical!
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:31pmIts just time for him to step down.
This whole screening process is total overkill, any terrorist could easily go on a crowded train, subway, building, movie theater, or anywhere else without any screening and could do just as much damage. Terrorists must laughing; imagine the power they must feel when just one of their low-level idiots tries something and the most powerful country on earth reacts in fear.
Its insane.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 12:38pmI’ve spent over an hour today attempting to gage the “impact’ of the “opt out”. and as far as I can tell there is NONE.
Which leads me to several lines of thought.
A. There is no impact because Americans talk a good game, but when push comes to shove all they really care about is their own convience and self interest. Thus no muss no fuss, just fell me up or click my pic and off I go. The constitution be damned, I have a plane to catch.
B. The media (both lame stream and conervitive) are not reporting on “disruptions because,
1. the airports authorities are not allowing any recording or filming and are not releasing any information.
2. Or there is nothing to report.
We have become soft, do we deserve what we get?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 1:28pmTSA agent voice “Resistance is futile, you will comply, you will comply!”
Report Post »TheAntiProgressive
Posted on November 24, 2010 at 2:34pmIf you’re not Italian or married to one you don’t know this, but Pistole in Italian means pistol and is used as a euphemism for a certain part of the male anatomy. I wonder if the TSA Chief likes his minions taking photos of his pistole?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on November 25, 2010 at 8:42amSadly, Betterdays has got it right. People are more interested in their own little lives than to focus on the bigger picture. It’s all about ME in this sad society right now. For people to allow this to continue will result in the loss of more and more freedoms. Next will be trains then buses, etc., but let’s not secure our borders or arrest persons here illegally. Common sense is gone and political correctness rules the day. Soon, if your not part of the ruling class or have family, friends, or connections you will be really put out. Can you not see how the bureaucrats and progressives are pushing for class warfare with the so-called Bush tax cuts, Wall Street bashing, and putting down of the rich? If you look at Congress most, if not all of them, are rich according to their own definitions. Kinda reminds you of the U.S.S.R. and other communist countries. If you don’t belong to the “party” your just a drone or worker bee that can be sacrificed. We are really on some shaky ground right now and it is really scary.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 26, 2010 at 2:55pmPatriot Act = TSA
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