– – Now, arguably, if each Airline was responsible for screening its own passengers, that would most certainly be correct … BUT

(1) Unelected bureacurats created “LAWS” which carry $ 11,000 fines in violation of the Constitution which puts that power solely in Congress

and

(2) They are putting such scanners/gropers in courthouses – which means that if you refuse this nonsense, you no longer have access to the courts!

This is utterly obscene and Orwellian.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/15/tsa-probe-scan-resistor/

It is as follows and can be found in the link above. “By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights.”

That’s what I want to hear from my government! (note the dripping disdain in my tone)

http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=6687

and

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/11/the_degradation_must_stop.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNY_PTULO4&feature=player_embedded#!

By the way where are all the usual civil rights organizations during this TSA debacle?

I know many others appreciate people like yourself publicly speaking out on this issue and other authoritarian and unnecessary homeland security measures that have been implemented since international terrorism has landed on our shores.

We need our nation’s security leadership to exercise better common sense, intelligence and savvy as well as respect for average Americans, as you’ve addressed in the following paragraphs of your article. We need to take some serious lessons from the Israelis on security issues:

“No other Western country is a bigger target for terrorists than Israel. Yet no other nation runs a better (largely privatized), less invasive, smarter security system, whose able agents simply talk to travelers. These profilers understand that 99.9 percent of fliers are “bona fide” (Yeffet’s favored bon mot). “Shoes aren’t removed, passengers aren’t body scanned, and there are no pat downs,” confirms the New York Times. A “hand search” is seldom conducted, and only with probable cause.

“In a few, well-chosen words, Yeffet has suggested that the thousands hired by the TSA are riffraff. “What we should do is to stop using a low level of people.” And, “Unqualified and untrained people, undedicated people are running the security in our country.” “We need to hire people that, at minimum, have graduated from high school, speak English, are U.S. citizens.” (PBS’ “NewsHour,” 2002.) “Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him. … We must look at the qualifications of the candidate for security jobs. He must be educated. He must speak two languages.” (CNN.)”

Enjoy your articles, keep up the good work.”

Nearly 4 billion passengers have flown on airlines since the incident and there have been ZERO takeovers of airplanes. How about if Lemack and her 9/11 EXPERTS stop flying! Let the airplane companies take responsibility and these 9/11 paranoids can all get colonoscopies on their airplane and the rest of us can take our chances with yogurt, shoes, and common sense. The pilots are armed and behind secure doors and they hate this nudie-groping!

Imagine an auto accident victim’s family insisting that cars go no faster than 20 miles per hour! That is about the same logical absurdity. Sadly too many idiotic Americans listen too such drivel.

Many claim that the Soviet system died with the end of the Cold War. Did it, really?

Thanks so much for this timely article, Ilana. I can’t believe this horrific invasion, or that the Fox people (any of them) are okay with it! Outrageous. And the treatment of that poor little girl? Not to mention John Tyner; I swear, these creeps get more frenzied at natural resistance.