Hey, Claire McCaskill… Here’s Your TSA “Love Pat”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, November 18, 2010, 5:24 AM
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Democrats support this.
The insanity continues.
Democrats yesterday spoke out in favor of the TSA “love pats“, rub downs, groping, and naked scanning of American flyers.
cnet reported, via Free Republic:
Foes of the Transportation Security Agency’s new air-screening procedures, including law enforcement-style pat-downs and what have been called “virtual strip searches,” had hoped that today’s Senate hearing would lead to a privacy outcry on Capitol Hill.
Not quite. The hearing quickly cleaved along partisan lines, with Democratic senators applauding the Obama administration and Republicans offering only modest criticism.
“Mr. Pistole, you’re doing a great job,” Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Senate committee overseeing air travel, told TSA chief John Pistole, a former FBI agent who’s had the job since July. For emphasis, Rockefeller added a few minutes later: “I think you’re doing a terrific job.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, admitted right away that “I have been a fan of the advanced imaging technology.” American air travelers, she said, “have to understand that this is being done for their best interests and their safety.”
In room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building this morning, however, Democrats sought to downplay public concerns.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, suggested that the public outcry was a problem of education: if Americans learned more about the TSA’s new procedures, they wouldn’t object to the new searches.
Once again… Anyone with any decency knows that these rub downs are a form of sexual abuse. And, anyone who has ever traveled to Israel knows that this assault on ordinary Americans is totally unnecessary.
As Selwyn Duke put it at American Thinker, we can profile Muslim terrorists or pat down the masses. Unfortunately, our government would rather abuse its own citizens.
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listingstarboard commented:
Obvious which Democrats have financial interests in Scanning Machine Companies.
Jess commented:
Of course Democrat Legislators have not problems w/security – the vast majority use the priority security @ Washington National. Have them go thru the same lines as the rest of us proles… I mean taxpayers…
kansas commented:
The people who are searched and violated are the ones who are the least likely to be terrorists. The crazy just gets worse and worse with this administration.
tarpon commented:
well it’s not any worse than what is displayed in Nancy Pelosi’s district during a good parade day.
GrayRider commented:
This is just another step in “conditioning” the serfs to kowtow to all government dictates. The government knows best and you don’t. Now drop trow and bend over.
Kenny Solomon commented:
Everybody’s got relatives, friends and co-workers who are Democrats and Leftists – everybody does, don’t think otherwise. You can’t isolate yourself from it.
So why not turn the gun barrel pointing the other way ?
You’re hittin’ the road for a night out and one of your Democrat-Leftist friends is going with you — you’re driving.
Tell ‘em it’s now part of your own personal security requirements that anyone getting in your vehicle will be searched and checked for ‘unauthorized items’ – like Democrat talking-points memos, membership card for The Center For American Progress, etc.
Yes, I’m serious.
Hey, you’re not profiling anyone, you’re just being safe checking your life-long bestest evah friend and whoever else gets in your car for dangerous items.
It’s not like The Lefties would be ever think of carrying evil scary-looking guns or box cutters, right ? So search for what you know they have.
Cheers !
Kenny Solomon
Typical bitter Jewish God-clinging Constitution-loving flag-waving gun-owning barking-mad-insane NASCAR fan in South Florida.
valerie commented:
This is great. One guy gets his say, but only in America.
Imagine what would have happened to this guy in Saudi.
lily commented:
There is no question that the stated purpose of these intrusions upon our persons and our rights is “to make us safer”. The question is, it is actually making us safer? There is no evidence of that.
Buckeye commented:
I read that G Soros is invested in these scanners. I’m wondering what is going to be accomplished if people wearing burqas are exempt. I am feeling less and less safe every day. It’s time we begin protecting victims and punishing criminals and terrorists.
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
Remember, we cannot make a terrorist uncomfortable while being detained but we can have citizens of this country groped and fondled.
Hangtown Bob commented:
Ya know…..
it’s always “possible” that someone entering the U.S. Capitol could be a terrorist bomber. Perhaps we need a full body scan and intimate groping of ALL persons entering said building, including ALL members of Congress. This search must be conducted on ALL Congresspersons EVERY TIME they enter the building.
I DO want my Congress to be safe.
justasimplepatriot commented:
This administration sees American citizens as submissive, subservient slaves dependent upon government for their very existence. They are doing everything they can to expand and reinforce Learned Helplessness as the national ethos.
Thankfully, for the majority of us, it is in our genes to be repulsed by this subversive effort. We just saw the first shots of the modern equivalent of revolution. If they keep this up, there is plenty of ammunition to send them packing in 2012.
Liz commented:
I quit flying several years ago and I suggest all that can do the same. Just sit back and watch all of the Obama supporters be affected by Obama’s policies. It’s actually quite funny.
listingstarboard commented:
We put Navy Seals on trial for giving a terrorist a fat lip but we subject lawabiding US Citizens to sexual assault not to offend Muslims. Thanks Obama and the Department of Jihad! Terrorists Win is right.
lily commented:
Can someone explain to me why I have the absolute right to privacy if I want to have an abortion, but no right to even the most basic privacy if I want to fly to see grandma?
Can you prove that surrendering my rights and dignity at the airport is making me measurably safer, and that this is the one way to achieve those ends?
code red commented:
Everyone should oppose Obama’s tactics which are trampling the Constitution which were created to purely CONDITION and CONTROL decent US citizens. No one is authorized to search some one else without PROBABLE CAUSE. A 3 year-old girl with a teddy bear does not constitute probable cause for a search and seizure of her teddy bear. An avowed fanatic on a terror watch list who buys a one way ticket DOES provide probable cause for an
invasive search. An illegal alien crossing the border should be detained and searched. Unfortunately, the real criminals are afforded more rights and deference than law-abiding citizens and thus are NEVER treated with such indignity. Pretty soon, Obama and his Gestapo troopers will be allowed to enter our homes without any probable cause. THIS MUST BE
STOPPED. DO NOT PUT UP WITH THIS. Don’t fly. Don’t be radiated by these dangerous back scatter machines. The airlines and travel industry will protest these procedures if you strongly OBJECT by NOT traveling.
In addition, the libs scream bloody hell when only THREE confirmed killers are waterboarded to save lives. But an old woman on vacation to see her grandkids, they publicly TORTURE her and humiliate her by groping and sexually ABUSING her, while they also take creepy ‘naked’ pictures of a nun on a religious retreat. US airports have become a US version of ABU GHRAIB for LAW-ABIDING citizens, while Gitmo criminals are given plush vacation homes in Bermuda and
illegals are given free governmental benefits and tuition.
They do not enforce existing laws on immigration/border security or follow guidelines for screening terror watch lists which would have flagged the undie bomber, but they have no
problem adopting tactics that have not been legally vetted and are being implemented by $10 per hour TSA high school drop outs.
Sparky commented:
Boycott all the airlines! Nothing like hundreds of grounded airplanes and more on the unemployment lines to get this egregious edict removed.
People need to revolt with their wallets and feet!
Mark1957 commented:
Over a million Americans have been sexually molested in their lifetime. To be subjected to this kind of abuse by the TSA is unacceptable. I was helpless as a child, but as an adult I will knock the teeth out of the first TSA screener that touches me in that manner. I have a God given right to protect myself.
Multitude commented:
McCaskill’s given us the answer to solving the disease of parasitic progressivism: education! Hell, if education can cause us go so far as to desire biopower’s blue-shirts to molest our wife, fondle our daughter and grope our manhood, and it can likewise cause us to embrace death panels, health care rationing, and encourage grandma to want to die at 75 for the greater good of a Federal budget (so the Reids and Pelosis can continue flying in first class and taking all those international junkets with their extended families), then let’s employ this educational power on the left.
My first assignment for our progressive friends will be a complete reading of Georgio Agamben’s “State of Exception.” We will discuss how the TSA head’s acknowledgment that these actions clearly violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “but are vitally necessary” constitutes such an exception, as does the passage of ObamaCare and numerous other regulatory and legislative actions by the progressive leadership. We will also discuss the outbreak of extensive legislation, such as the recent New Jersey community law banning “sleeping in public”, but clarifies that “we will only interpret the law and enforce it on the ‘really’ guilty people, like the homeless in the park” continues as a further form of totalitarianism via exception given it places the law into the interpretive mental lens of authority. Finally, we will examine the radical expansion of state digital surveillance powers (including the spying of domestic social networking, emails and other U.S. citizen communications), continuation of Guantanamo, and the employment of executive-directed killings of citizens by drone attack from the context of Homo Sacer.
Bonus question: Given Agamben and other post-structural theorists define Obama’s behaviors as fascist, and that the history of the progressive movement finds the same origin that gave rise to Italy and Germany’s fascist movements, what ethical obligation of notice should be provided to the supportive news media prior to rendering them complicit for providing instrumental support to totalitarian violence during hearings that will likely be conducted in the future?
Robert commented:
What this shows is that the government would rather abuse us
than even discuss the fact that terrorism is conducted by Moslems.
This includes all politicians, and also news “analysts”. I have not
seen a statement or acknowledgment anywhere that begins to
examine this facet of the situation.
Politicians and government officials do not want to confront the
political ideology of Islam.
TxBitty commented:
Curious to know if any of those Dems have stock in OSI
Robert commented:
Also left unmentioned is the new reality that any entity that now
declines to initiate these overbearing procedures will be sued
if any incident happens on their facility. So airlines will not be
so quick to abandon the legal and financial protection they get
from placing the operation under the federal government.
nobama commented:
Let’s remember about these “love pats” when Claire runs in 2012. We do need to be careful though of a trap these dems could be setting. If we complain too much and another 911 happens dems will blame us, not their poor planning and vetting of TSA.
Midwestengr commented:
This is all about political correctness for these liberal politicians. In their simple minds, they are willing to justify violating a person’s rights in order to appease those who perpetrated the attacks on the airlines and America. These same simple minded liberals want to “educate” young children in public schools on “Good touch-Bad Touch” then turn around at airports in this country and VIOLATE them. Law enforcement officials profile criminals every day in order to hunt them down and protect the public. Start doing it in airports. Profiling works!
vsatt commented:
If it were me, I’d wear a maxi-pad and tell them it’s that time of the month.
FedUp commented:
Tell me again, just how many of those terrorists originated in the US???
Laura commented:
The Israelis volunteered to “educate” the US on actual, effective screening techniques, yet the US turned them down. So much for education — seems like it’s not “the masses” who need educating, but the pinheads in office.
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Clare McCaskill, as I commented elsewhere, has now definitively sexualized the TSA pat-downs. She has confirmed that these are indeed sexual and invasive in nature and she knows it, knew it all along. What does that make her? Procurer-in-chief for the sleazebuckets at the TSA? Does she know that one TSA agent has already been arrested for rape and sexual assault of a 14 year old girl outside his duties as a TSA agent? The TSA can’t even screen its own personnel and they’re the final checkpoint for airport security? What a joke.
What really needs to happen — and it’s only a matter of time — is for someone who is required by a major corporation to fly for their job to be sexually assaulted by the TSA and for that employee to slap his or her employer with a sexual harrassment suit. Watch business travel plummet — watch the convention destination cities lose even more business — let the governors and chambers of commerce start lobbying Congress. Then we’ll see some changes because the sad truth is that money talks and BS walks. This has to become about big money for someone on the other side of the equation. Right now, this is all about big money for RapeScan and its investors. Time to make it about big money for the airlines, the convention cities, the hotels, etc.
wow commented:
Next time I fly I’m wearing a burkha! It’s a sad day when I have to say that my pat down in Colombia was nowhere near as intrusive or demeaning as in my own country!!!!
Granny commented:
#26 November 18, 2010 at 9:22 am
vsatt commented:
If it were me, I’d wear a maxi-pad and tell them it’s that time of the month.
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On a previous thread I did wonder just what they hell they do when they run into this – demand the woman remove the maxi pad so it can be tested for explosives?
And then there are those blue gloves – they had BETTER be changing them between Gate Rape Victims. Otherwise, since they are sticking their hands in peoples’s pants they might just spread disease like crabs and herpes.
Granny commented:
OT: Texas Strikes at drug cartels along the border
This is real military engagement by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Department of Homeland Insecurity to file suit in 3. . . 2. . . . 1
PJ commented:
Nice to see the lame ducks are not politicizing our safety and our sacred rights!
BTW Big Sis said yesterday at her presser that “further information” would be coming on the issue of Muslim women being patted down. IOW, Muslims will be exempted from the groping!
wow commented:
I just read this comment on another thread and it probably is the best I have read to date… It’s so logical that our authorities probably will no understand!!!
The underwear Bomber, who presumably provides the excuse for the current TSA screening method, started his flight overseas. How would the new screening system have been successful in detecting him? Will all foreign airports, with flights destined for the U.S. be required to use the new techniques and equipment? Will travelers whose flights originated in a foreign country, with multiple interim connections in foreign countries, be required to go through multiple screenings should flight changes are required for their itinerary ? Or will these screenings only be required of passengers whose flight originates in the U.S.? If this is the case, how would this have identified either the shoe bomber or the underwear bombers?
Granny commented:
Here’s Ron Paul on the floor speaking about TSA -
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599164944
Granny commented:
#33 November 18, 2010 at 10:06 am
PJ commented:
Nice to see the lame ducks are not politicizing our safety and our sacred rights!
BTW Big Sis said yesterday at her presser that “further information” would be coming on the issue of Muslim women being patted down. IOW, Muslims will be exempted from the groping!
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The day that they are I suggest that the entire American flying public – at least the ladies – don burka and go forth to the airport. Are they going to dare dispute beyond the burka?
Mongo commented:
Claire will get her pat down in 2012, probably during the primary. She needs a good stomping (politically speaking, of course…)
daryl commented:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rolling+stones/satisfaction_10243634.html
Download the old Rolling Stones hit “Satisfaction” as your ringtone, have someone dial your number and play it in your screeners ear while he/she pats you down and gropes .
sing along,
“I can’t get no satisfaction,
I can’t get no girly action.
‘Cause I try and I try and I try and I try.
I can’t get no, I can’t get no.
When I’m ridin’ round the world
and I’m doin’ this and I’m signing that
and I’m tryin’ to make some girl
who tells me baby, better come back later next week
’cause you see I’m on losing streak.
I can’t get no, oh no no no.
Hey hey hey, that’s what I say.”
Tom63010 commented:
Claire Bear McCaskill once again is basically stating that if her constituents weren’t so ignorant then they would embrace another government overreach.
Laura commented:
It’s unlikely that a person could get a sexually transmitted disease via the in-the-waistband portion of the pat-downs, but MRSA is a distinct possibility.
The TSA agents don’t change their gloves between each pat-down — this is a problem.
But, I’ll tell ya, I plan to cough, hack, sneeze, etc., next time I go through. It’s flu season, folks! Make it work for ya!
And if I really do have a bad cold (unfortunately, I never get the flu…), I am SO sneezing right in the face, mouth uncovered, of the TSA agents, pat-down or not. More of ‘em out sick, less of ‘em to do pat-downs.
As for the maxi pad thing — hell, I’ll whip it off, all used and stuff, and rub it right in their faces. Let ‘em eat THAT for breakfast!
Joanne commented:
What is honestly bizarre, is that the TSA and Obama’s administration actual thinks people should just accept these searches, like it is normal to have naked pictures taken of yourself and/or be molested just to take a flight. When did America become so depraved that the Obama administration actually figures Americans are going to accept this? It was bad enough when the Jews were stripped down before they were gassed by the Nazis.
bitterclinger commented:
#26 November 18, 2010 at 9:22 am
vsatt commented:
If it were me, I’d wear a maxi-pad and tell them it’s that time of the month.
Hold on to your hat. They can see it on the scanner. The pilot who’s suing said the machines can discern whether a man is circumcised and if a woman is menstruating.
As for Claire Bear, I bet you Missourians are relieved to learn that just like health care, airline safety requirements can all be understood with re-education.
Jim, I hope you and the rest of her constituents tweet her daily about “being next” when election season rolls around.
Granny commented:
#40 November 18, 2010 at 10:44 am
Laura commented:
It’s unlikely that a person could get a sexually transmitted disease via the in-the-waistband portion of the pat-downs, but MRSA is a distinct possibility.
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Laura, neither crabs nor herpes are distinctly “sexually transmitted” – they simply live in the genital area. You really can pick up crabs from a toilet seat – they are simply body lice. And the biggest difference between the herpes cold sore on your lip and the one in somebody’s crotch is location. That virus will live long enough on a glove to be transferred to the next victim in line if the gloves aren’t changed.
HIV, syphillis, etc. – those you really don’t need to worry about.
BTW, in medicine failing to change your gloves between patients and thereby transmitting disease from one to the next is grounds for a lawsuit. Where’s the recourse here?
Finncrisp commented:
Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, suggested that the public outcry was a problem of education: if Americans learned more about the TSA’s new procedures, they wouldn’t object to the new searches.
Why is it that Claire is the first to suggest we are not “educated” enough to appreciate what the government is doing to us? where was she born – Tonedeafistan?
TxBitty commented:
Men,
wear your kilts with no underwear.
http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/11/tsa-protest-men-wear-kilt-without.html
greenfairie commented:
These Democratic douchebags probably whiz right past security without any checks or just ride a Gulfstream to wherever they’re going.
silentcal_rox commented:
very few of us require a mental midget like claire mc imbecile to “educate” us about ANYTHING! (except maybe where to find a good doughnut)
Laura commented:
Well, I’ve had the more extreme pat down and they don’t go further than just inside the waistband. Body lice, maybe, but herpes? Less likely. The gloves SHOULD be changed, however.
I think people are getting extreme in their descriptions of what’s going on. The more extreme descriptions are usually related anonymously in the comboxes for someone else’s more legitimate (but highly sensationalized) story. One woman claimed her husband had to have a digital rectal exam in public at the security checkpoint — really? Really? No one noticed? No one made a fuss over a middle aged man removing his trousers and underwear in public, bending over, spreading his buttcheeks and having a TSA agent insert his finger into his rectum — in public? In front of children and other security personnel? C’mon.
That’s why you have to be careful — the TSA needs to be held accountable for improper behavior, and this country needs to understand that these scanners are unnecessarily intrusive and probably present long-term health issues, but that sort of extreme BS harms the process of sorting out this mess.
In all seriousness, all fun and ick-factor stuff aside, we do have to move the conversation towards adopting proven, effective El-Al type measures, and clearly dishonest representations of what’s happening at security gates hinder that conversation.
No Man commented:
Live free or fly!
daryl commented:
I can’t wait ’til Pelosi Galore has to be x-rayed or felt up on her way to or from DC. You can see now why she wanted and got her own plane. She knew what was coming at the boarding gate.
Remember the hissy fit Cynthia McKinney threw at the capital building when security wanted to “frisk” her?
What happens to be in Pelosi’s panties however is way to much info. I’ll leave that to the screener to find out and decide whether she boards or not.
Laura commented:
Poor Nancy — she’s just never gotten over the fact Gavin Newsome is younger and prettier than her…
Sen. Fuller Bull - D commented:
The thing to do is to have a big Mexican meal before going to the airport and when they start their pat-downs start sounding the tRUMPetS.
Granny commented:
#48 November 18, 2010 at 11:30 am
Laura commented:
Well, I’ve had the more extreme pat down and they don’t go further than just inside the waistband. Body lice, maybe, but herpes? Less likely. The gloves SHOULD be changed, however.
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There is the way it “should” be done (not that it should be done at all) and the way it is sometimes done instead. One reporter who went through this recently said that they literally demanded to touch his penis. That would sure as hell transmit herpes.
Laura commented:
Who is the reporter that publicly claimed the TSA “demanded” to “touch his penis”? I’d like to see the original story, please.
darcy commented:
It occurs to me that this administration — and others in the ruling class — have already come to terms with the Islamization of America. That is why it is forbidden to refer to our enemies as terrorists, much less as Muslim terrorists, at the DHS and other agencies, and this even applies to the president in his formal remarks.
This is why the administration has chosen security measures that look for weapons rather than terrorists, has chosen unreasonable search of passengers “without probable cause,” when profiling is known to be effective. The scan and grope method is designed to convey one message: You are no longer a free person but are a subject of the state; and as that message is repeatedly received and internalized, even unconsciously by travelers, it serves the purpose of making them everyday more and more susceptible to the subjugation by Islam that is the ultimate goal. Why else would our government strip us of our 4th Amendment protections while refusing to even NAME our enemies as terrorists?
We are being conditioned to endure ever-greater levels of subjugation, all in the name of security, from an enemy that shall not be named, and in a manner that is not even effective. It’s not so much now that the terrorists have won, but that the Left — Islam’s partner in crime — has paved the way so successfully for the utimate victory.
Because it is liberalism and the Left — and their anti-discrimination, tolerance “god” — that precludes them from even thinking the word ‘profiling.’
They take us for utter fools and insult our intelligence.
Chisum commented:
Who is the reporter that publicly claimed the TSA “demanded” to “touch his penis”? I’d like to see the original story, please.
Laura,
If, as you claim, a reporter “publicly claimed” this wouldn’t it be ….public?
Impress us with your google skills.
Laura commented:
That’s why I asked — it doesn’t come up in a google search. Similar stories from other sources come up, most often the one by a pilot who exaggerated the situation, saying being asked to go through a scanner was the same as a TSA agent asking to “see” his penis and then, when he refused and was told he’d be patted down, claimed the TSA agent asked to “touch” his penis.
But perhaps your google skills are better than mine. Since you are aware of this story, have read it, and know it can be found via goodle, could you please steer me in the right direction. If it exists, I’d really like to read it for myself.
Thanks!
Laura commented:
Oh — and that “touching” the pilot was speaking of would have taken place outside his clothes, so herpes transmission would not be an issue in that case.
Again — I’d really appreciate a link to the story you claim is out there. Much obliged for your help, especially if it illustrates egregious behavior on the part of the TSA, which I know we all want to bring to light.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Claire McCaskill is a pig. She is going to get the Robin Carnahan treatment in 2012.
Chisum commented:
Laura,
“goodle”? I don’t know “goodle”. Anyway, I wasn’t the one who claimed a reporter said this.
See, Laura, in this forum, we require people to back up their claims. You don’t appear comfortable with that.
apodoca commented:
Jeez! That looks like a forward fisting!
TxBitty commented:
Everyone that opts out should make the gropers change gloves in front of them.
Take names.
Can you do background checks on gropers?
Andreas K. commented:
“this is being done for their best interests and their safety” a.k.a. for the “greater good”
Laura, the issue is not whether it’s in his clothes or outside of his clothes or on the moon. The issue is that groping anybody’s crotch won’t make flying any safer. It’s ridiculous. It’s a completely retarded idea. It’s like saying painting a car red makes it go faster.
If a terrorist wants to strike in the US, he will strike in the US. He can get in via Canada or Mexico. And he would be a total moron if he would try to get a bomb on an airplane. There are far better targets available.
Quick. Let’s make them secure and safe too!
TSA should control busses, trains and subways too! And schools! And hospitals! And any place that holds more than 5 people!
It’s stupid. People are being inconvenienced for no reason at all. People have their privacy invaded for no reason at all. Don’t tell me fighting terror is a reason for this. It’s not.
left coast rebel commented:
Fight back by ridiculing the bastards. Here’s a caption contest for the Denver/TSA photo:
http://www.leftcoastrebel.com/2010/11/caption-contest-for-tsadenver.html
Ken commented:
The democrats promised free examinations for kids when they passed obamacare but budget cuts have forced them to turn to pistoles perverts to check your prostrate.
Sam commented:
The TSA is going to turn the democrats into the party of perverts