Comments on: UPDATE V: The Stasi Breast Exam (CONTRA CNN…) https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dan Jeffreys https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13448 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:29:43 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13448 I also noted how the media arm of the government was going on about how the TSA “opt out” protests “fizzled”. The very next story was how bad the Thanksgiving traffic was this year, never bothering with the obvious conclusion that most people’s opt out protest consisted of opting out of flying all together.

Dan

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By: Mike Marks https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13446 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:48:13 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13446 The following link illustrates the chilling effect the new TSA procedures can have on someone who has endured sexual abuse. (Note: it can also be found on the Drudge Report).

http://www.prisonplanet.com/sanitary-towel-prompts-tsa-to-grope-sexual-assault-victim.html

As someone who has family members across multiple generations who have endured various forms of sexual abuse, the whole TSA search/x-ray issue hits home in a “Stasi” way. The government’s appraoch is just plain wrong on so many levels. Although I have contained it in my posts this new set of TSA procedure elicits a strong viseral response in me.

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By: Jack https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13444 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:59:51 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13444 If more people choose to drive rather than fly, the unintended consequences are easy to predict. More people will be die in traffic accidents than were ever killed by terrorists.

It’s also easy to predict that this matters not at all to the powers that be.

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By: Van Wijk https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13430 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:59:24 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13430 As Lawrence Auster has been saying for many years, so long as there is a substantial Moslem minority in this country, this is what we have to deal with, forever.

The federals are increasing the heat under a people who are already at a simmer. Every new procedure brings us a step closer to open violence in the streets. The irony is that Americans are aware that their rights are being severed in order to placate the Moslems, and this will be remembered. Things will be particularly ugly in Dearborn when the law begins to break down.

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By: Barbara Grant https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13429 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:53:17 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13429 Where is the “Tea Party” in all of this? Do they even register a protest? I’m not certain; but if there ever was a liberty issue in which they might make a contribution, this is it. Thankfully, Ron Paul (who didn’t need a “movement” behind him in order to be pro-liberty) has introduced a bill in Congress to protect the dignity of Americans while flying. Let’s see how it fares.

Meanwhile, Tea Party patriots should weigh in on this issue. If they do not, that movement is toast.

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By: Steve Hogan https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13428 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:32:36 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13428 Any respect I had for pilots and flight attendants went right out the window. They got their grope-and-scope exemptions and gave the rest of us the big middle digit (I’d say the same for politicians, but giving us the finger is their full-time occupation). Thanks for nothing, folks.

I sincerely hope a few airlines go bust and these cowards have to endure the indignities they thought they’d escaped.

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By: greenhell https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13427 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:02:43 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13427 Have you seen the newest image from the TSA blog? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_himdawV7crE/TO1I_EJ-1xI/AAAAAAAAAOo/FZB8LqKKiQc/s1600/IMG00059-20101124-1151.jpg

It’s quite hard to digest. Two children with a poster thanking the TSA up front, juxtaposed with a man without shoes and another man being looked at naked in the background. To borrow from someone else, looks like it’s “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” at the TSA.

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13425 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:48:12 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13425 What is possibly more disgusting than the complete irrelevance to actual safety, the goonish nature of the TSA itself, AND the politicians who ignore the constitutional violations: (1) Congress cannot delegate law-making to a third party and (2) the 4th Amendment????

Answer – the mainstream media and the frightened populous who will accept any indignity and violation of liberty if the famous mantra “9/11” is uttered. There is little hope for an America which acquiesces in such insidious nonsense. Also keep in mind that the government monopoly prevents any competition and alternatives – you could have United doing X-rays, Delta doing gropes, US Air using dogs and Southwest doing interviews.

I am sure that members of the Supreme Court will also be exempted from the tedious lines, shoe removal, yogurt removal, coin removal, nudie-scans, and genital fondling lest they bring down the insanity on Constitutional grounds.

As for the 3 year old kids currently being groped – they will just grow up used to the indignities and go like sheep through whatever garbage the government throws at them. There will always be a few Sakharovs who will speak up but the majority will just follow orders.

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By: Frank Brady https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13424 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:52:10 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13424 Ilana, I hate to disagree but you’ve got it all wrong. These TSA procedures are great! The ungrateful whiners never stop to think that there hasn’t been a successful use of a commercial aircraft in a terror attack since 9-11. In fact, TSA is so effective that its methods have prevented us from being slaughtered by the thousands in other ways as well.

Think of how many of us might have died had the legions of Islamic Terrorists prowling about out there sent suicide bombers into the hundreds of undefended U.S. shopping malls. What unspeakable carnage has the TSA prevented by somehow preventing Islamic Terrorists from flying explosive-laden light planes into Football stadiums and Concert Venues? How many lives have been saved because the TSA prevented Terrorist Squads from spraying thousands of vehicles trapped on bridges in rush hour with automatic weapons fire and RPGs? This truly unimaginable success is all the more remarkable when one considers the porousness of our borders and the relative accessibility of explosives and weapons.

We should all be grateful, on this Thanksgiving Day especially, that such a stalwart and resourceful agency stands between us and the millions of Islamists who want to kill us all because they hate our way of life. I know I am!

Sarcasm mode now off.

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By: Mike Marks https://barelyablog.com/the-stasi-breast-exam/comment-page-1/#comment-13423 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:39:47 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31564#comment-13423 A quick note on profiling. It appears that the case against profiling is both Political Correctness and “static thinking”. In an interview with our “dear friend” Bill O’Reilly, Whoopy Goldberg may have let the cat out of the bag by saying effectively that profiling was good for now but what if the threat changes? Gee I don’t know um ah let’s see ah maybe the profile changes as well. We are being held captive by PC and static thinking. What ever happened to looking at things from a dynamic perspective? The beauty of a decentralized system is that allows for distributed dynamic thinking and analysis. The central planners have great difficulty responding quickly to changes real time in the field. This is not the language the founders used but it is certainly their intent!

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