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November 22, 2010
Obama’s Refusal To Acknowledge Threat Of Radical Islam By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
Obama’s Refusal To Acknowledge Threat Of Radical Islam
By Dr. Alan Bates, MD.
A few weeks ago my wife and I traveled to from Florida to Nevada, but when we picked up our suitcases at the baggage claim, I noticed the combination lock on our main piece of luggage was broken and the latch would not function. A second latch irrelevant to entering that suitcase was also broken. I inquired of the airline and they denied any responsibility for damage and blamed TSA. Our luggage was unlocked when we checked it at the ticket counter.
Neither my wife nor I are on any terrorist watch lists and have been loyal law-abiding loyal Americans for more than 50 years. Why would TSA target our suitcase? Why did TSA elect to damage an expensive piece of luggage when it was checked in unlocked to begin with?
The concise answer is that Obama and those in charge of Homeland Security and TSA have at the very least a misguided approach to prevention of terrorism based upon political correctness which prevents the only proven successful solution---profiling those individuals most likely to be terrorists.
Diehard liberals like Obama, Napolitano and TSA Director John Pistole don’t learn by watching those who already know how to do something---like Israeli airport security teams who are crack experts at spotting would-be terrorists primarily by watching human interactions, mannerisms and targeting those who are most likely to promulgate terrorism based upon past history. Instead, liberals have to reinvent a politically correct way to do everything even if it abuses our constitutional rights.
Damage to our luggage was an intentional harmful act without cause for which our government is responsible. I could care less that they were only doing their job by ‘randomly selecting our luggage for screening’ as was written on a card inserted into that suitcase by TSA. They had no reason to enter it or to destroy the locking mechanism. TSA can claim that the luggage was not unlocked but either they are wrong or some baggage handler accidentally spun the combination and locked it prior to some robotic TSA employee selecting our bag for open search.
Meantime, Islamic terrorists think far ahead of TSA which merely reacts. Ironically, Islamic terrorists have only been stopped while already aboard flights by fast-acting passengers who overpower them. They board flights because TSA ignores the reality that both physical and psychological profiling are the key to prevention, whether in an airport or at Fort Hood.
Whether you are from Yemen or Pakistan does not matter to the TSA or to Obama and his czars. In fact, some of the top positions at Homeland Security are Muslims appointed by Obama.
Could illegal search and seizure of citizens at airports be the first test of this Administration as to whether Americans will complacently surrender their constitutional rights? What next?
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Wild Thing's comment........
Well done by Dr. Bates.
YSA refuses to employ technology that can help them identify travelers who are more likely to be a threat than others. That technology is profiling. Orders from Obama, Homeland Security and the PC lefties.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at November 22, 2010 03:45 AM
Comments
Dr Bates points out the problem of PC gone amok. Most of us are aware of it. It is just one of the reasons Repubs scored so well in recent elections.
Posted by: TomR, armed in Texas at November 22, 2010 10:56 AM
You said it, Dr. Bates. Once, I even bought one of those TSA-approved locks (visibly marked, which they have keys to open, encouraged for us to use) and the crumb just cut it off anyway. How making us dhimmis "feel subdued" will get the jihadists off our backs... ya got me.
Posted by: Anonymous at November 22, 2010 12:06 PM
They are just too lazy to get a key and unlock a suitcase or even work a latch. The the bottom level of the people at the TSA is pretty close to the bottem of people who can work with the public.
Posted by: Avitar at November 22, 2010 02:18 PM
Tom, so true, and it sure needs to be said to the lefties so they might one day see how bad it can be to be PC. Some are coming around with this TSA stuff happening.
Anonymous,thank you so much for sharing about getting one of those locks and what happened. WOW
Avitar, yes and they need a lot more training if they are getting any I have no idea.
Posted by: Wild Thing at November 22, 2010 05:54 PM
