Well, multiple news outlets report that National Opt-Out Day is a near-total bust. That’s a shame.
No, it’s a travesty.
It’s just the Fourth Amendment, folks. No big deal. There are a bunch more left to piss away later.
So this is the new normal in another month, and merrily we roll along. Wonder what the next new normal will be?
“What do you mean you object to this Geiger counter probe up your ass?! IT’S FOR PROTECTION FROM TERRORISTS!”
Yeah, laugh. Please. I hope that’s funny forever. I really do.
Where are all of you tedious malcontents who were endlessly shrieking about the PATRIOT Act, and how Bush was turning us into a police state? Why are you not doing the same—no, more—now? Is it just because Obama is in the White House? I really do hate to play that card, because I know a great many of my allies in this fight are considerably left of me, but…what is it? Today should have been a triumph of civil disobedience; a widespread display of an ostensibly free populace that has had enough.
“Sir, please spread your legs wide enough to allow your testicles to hang freely.”
Instead, there wasn’t even a whimper. Y’all be sure to ask for extra peanuts on the plane, and I certainly hope your dumbass son-in-law has ESPN2 at his house, and they better have bought you a goddam box of Fiber One this time.
You know, the important stuff.
Sigh.
I was originally going to blog tonight on where we should go next with airplane security, against a glorious backdrop of “I opt out” delays across the fruited plain. Denied that context, I’ll skip it, because there’s no point. Whatever else today was, it was a virtual guarantee that not one damned thing is going to change.
“Ma’am, I’ll be placing the tip of my finger inside your vagina now. This is uncomfortable for both of us, but it will be brief.”
Besides, National Review Online said a lot of what I was going to say anyway, particularly about elective investigation/clearing, as well as profiling, both behavioral and (bless your little politically correct head; hope it doesn’t explode) demographic.
I didn’t fly today. Deep, deep shame on those of you who did and said nothing.
Can’t wait to see what the next new normal brings.
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The crazies that called for the National Opt Out Day, don’t know what they are talking and the majority of our nation flew anyway. As soon as we get another terrorist attack these same crazies will be yelling that our government we were not doing enough to detect them. They have no ideas on what should be implemented instead of what is in place, but I am sure that will call this a victory. What a bunch of empty suits that are just real haters not debaters.
Montana, welcome. I have a few questions for you.
How many terrorists have the current TSA practices prevented from boarding aircraft?
Why did it take 11 months to respond to the Christmas Day bomber with these practices, which is what we’re repeatedly told led to them?
Do you know who Michael Chertoff is? Do you know what he does for a living?
Have you seen Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s report on CNN about the effectiveness of these Rapiscan scanners?
Have you spent any time researching how Israel handles the problem of potential air terrorism? Would you support such behavioral profiling?
Would you support elective screening – i.e. voluntarily submitting to a background check in exchange for expedited security practices?
Would you support automatically subjecting citizens of certain countries – places like Iran, Yemen, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, off the top of my head – to additional screening?
Do you know what the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says?
Pat Buchanan wrote, “Were George III to return to life, he would roar with laughter at what a flock of sheep the descendants of the American rebels have become.” The context was different, but this quote has become a mental peg on which I’m hanging events much too often.
Greg, grave and obvious threats have built a lot of character over the past 100 years or so of American history.
I think that for far too many people, this grave threat fails on “obvious.”