Land Of The Loons, Home Of The Absurd

By Semperpapa

Yes, I am referring to the United States of America anti-terrorist posture fostered by the current Dept. of Homeland Security and impersonated by its fearless leader Janet Napolitano.

The News lately has been saturated by the TSA new “techniques” of passenger search.

These are the options offered to the American travelers:

Walk through a full body scanner that takes a revealing picture of the person, or being patted down in a very intrusive manner by a TSA officer.

Ok, I am all in favor of making sure that the airliners can get to their destination without being inconvenienced by some terrorist blowing up his or her crotch in the name of Allah, but I find the approach taken by Napolitano to be lacking common sense.

The folks in the business in Washington should be working overtime to develop a much less loony way to address security in airports.

In the case of the body scan, I cannot see the reason behind the necessity for the images to be recorded and stored any place for any length of time.

In the case of the “aggressive” pat down of travelers, I think it could be safe to say that grabbing the private parts of toddlers and senior citizens may be stretching authority a bit much.

And if that was not enough to qualify the whole thing for a padded room at the local insane asylum, the level of absurdity skyrocketed the moment that CAIR got involved in the controversy.

According to the Council on American Islamic Relations, both methods used by TSA to screen passengers are against the teachings of Islam and that women should refuse to subject themselves to them.

In a press release, CAIR is accusing the TSA to use the new techniques to single out Muslims, of which I guess the proof was the aggressive pat down of the young crying toddler shown on a video, and it is instructing Muslim women the following:

"They should not subject you to a full-body or partial body pat-down."

"Instead of the pat-down, you can always request to pat down your own scarf, including head and neck area and have the officers perform a chemical swipe of your hands."

Basically, Muslim women would conduct a self security check, not allowing the TSA officer to touch them.

It does not take a particularly elevated sense of security awareness to realize that the demand of CAIR for Muslim women to search themselves is a definite step into the realm of lunacy. But the even remote hint to the fact that Napolitano may be considering CAIR demand, reminds us that the current politically correct crowd in charge in Washington has taken the Nation into a parallel universe of absurdity.

In the first place, the scope of a security check is for someone other than the person searched to insure that no illegal or offensive material is present on the person.

I wonder if such consideration would be given to members of the Westboro Baptist Church, for example, who may contend that being patted down by officers of the same gender would be offensive to their profound hate for homosexuals. I seriously doubt it.

Secondly, considering the reality that all these extra precautions are the result of attacks perpetrated by members of the Islamic religion, misguided or not, giving such a preferential treatment to the same, just boggles the mind of any common sense person.

The mere fact that DHS is even considering such a special treatment toward Muslims indicates that there is some office worm, somewhere in Washington, trying to come up with a policy justification aimed at obfuscate the facts and indicate that anyone opposed to such policy should be considered as islamophobic. Cowering dissenters into a sense of self-guilt is the mantra of the progressive crowd that unfortunately is running the show these days.

All this non-sense is the result of the cancer that has and will kill many Americans: political correctness. We are today living in a world where nothing is what it is, provided that some minority says so and brings accusations of discrimination.

The solution of the problem is in the new evil that the Left has created for public consumption: profiling.

In order to insure thugs like the terrorist sympathizers of CAIR to be happy, we are subjected to completely unreasonable procedures in order to get on an airplane.

To make sure that Ahmed from Somalia feelings are not “offended” we subject 3-years olds to frightening extensive pat downs, we subject 80-year old grandmas to invasive and offensive and unnecessary grabbing and groping. All the while we are even considering giving a pass to burqa wearing Muslims.

Yes, my fellow patriots, I am convinced that the security of our Nation and the safety of our families is residing in the hands of a complete crowd of buffoons, with absolutely no clue of what the job entails and with only one preoccupation: to make America subservient to Islam.

Just my thoughts!