Texas has proposed legislation along the lines of what New Hampshire is proposing. Rather than holding individual TSO's responsible for sexual assault, it is holding the airports liable for such breaches of human rights. JH Huebert at LRC gives the backstory, which we've been following along here as well. It would be great to see some of this legislation pass and for more states to follow suit.
Of course, as my last post shows, as long as security is in the hands of the federal government, we will not be safe from the abuses. They will just move onto trains, buses, sporting events, concerts, and more.
The sad truth is that Chertoff's religion has a lot to do with this corrupt deal on the scanners. Herr Chertoff is using the fear of some in the United States of Arab terrorism to make a profit off of these harmful scanners that doubtless will lead people to become sick with cancer or have birth defects. And the purpose of the obscene, invasive patdowns is to make it more likely that people will opt for the scanner, which is good for business. Chertoff is a dual Israeli-American citizen, and he has no problem making the entire population of the United States suffer all in the name of stopping terrorism, just like Joe Lieberman has no problem forcing the military to mobilize to invade Iraq for oil and defense contractor profits and to eliminate an enemy of Israel, even though he conveniently sat out the Vietnam War. Any criticism of federal policy is automatically deemed 'anti-Semitic' or 'soft on terror.'
ReplyDeleteMake no mistake about it, the German Nazis did terrible things to the Jews during World War II. Those days are long gone; Hitler came to power nearly eighty years ago, not five, ten or fifteen years ago. By contrast, the crimes of the Jewish neo-conservatives and the Israeli security apparatus are virtually boundless and are present-day, not from the first 45 years of the past century. Chertoff should be investigated and then jailed for corruption the way he deserves, and then maybe we can travel without these repulsive patdowns and X-Ray machines.