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Enough is enough! It’s time to stop the madness of the TSA and start talking profiling. All the terrorists on 9/11 were foreign born, male and Muslim jihadists. All of the other terrorist attacks on Americans for the past 30 years were also committed by foreign born, Muslim jihadist men. For any doubters, you can see the complete list here.

It’s not even true profiling. In a case that came before the Supreme Court in 1975, the court ruled that the border police could consider the "Mexican appearance" of people in a car, noting that "The government has estimated that 85 percent of the aliens illegally in the country are from Mexico." Even worse, we know that 100 percent of the successful terrorist attacks on airplanes have been committed by foreign born, Muslim jihadist men. As the great Ann Coulter said, “When there is a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile. It's called a ‘description of the suspect.’”ⁱ

When the evidence is this overwhelming, it is insane to be subjecting law-abiding U.S. citizens to naked-body scanners, invasive pat-downs or any other type of aggressive screening measure. The TSA is wasting our time and putting all of us in danger by insisting on political correctness and passing up potential terrorists to use extra measures on Sister Margaret, little Annie, or good ol’ Joe the deer hunter. By the way, the TSA actually doesn’t want passengers to choose the pat-down because it takes longer. So they have made it more invasive as a means of discouraging people from opting out of the scanners.

Someone might object that the terrorists could change their profile. Of course, they could, but they haven’t in 30 years! Not to mention the fact that this would prove extremely difficult. Few others are willing to do suicide missions for the sake of Allah.

Another strike against the scanners is that they are potentially dangerous to our health. According to Dr. Michael Love, who runs an x-ray lab at Johns Hopkins University, “statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays.” Another group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) sent a letter to the White House Office of Science and Technology back in April to raise concerns about the “potential serious health risks” from the scanners. Biochemist John Sedat and his colleagues said in the letter, “While the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high.”ⁱⁱ

All of this is an unforeseen “benefit” of the “Stimulus Bill.” The TSA began rolling out these full-body scanners at US airports back in 2007, but stepped up distribution of these devices this year when stimulus funding made it possible to buy another 450 of the advanced imaging technology scanners.

An English member of Parliament (MP) who had previously worked on the scanners at the defense research organization QinetiQ has said that the machines cannot detect chemicals or light plastics. So, they would not have stopped the Christmas Day bomber! They can, however, scan crowds at a distance so we can now even be scanned without prior notice or our knowledge.

The Labour MP for Birmingham, who is also a Muslim, Perry Barr, has said: “I think most people would rather be profiled than blown up. It wouldn’t be victimization of an entire community. The fact is the majority of people who have carried out or planned these terror attacks have been Muslim.”ⁱⁱⁱ

We would all be a lot safer if we adopted procedures similar to the Israeli method of profiling. When someone buys a ticket, the airlines could do a background/citizenship check. Any foreign- born men from Moslem countries could be extensively interviewed before boarding the plane. If the trained agent interviewing them notices anything suspicious, they could then be subjected to the body scanner and pat-down. More than 99% of passengers are innocent, so adopting something like this would actually be much more effective in saving lives and our dignity, not to mention our time and money!

Have I mentioned that these measures are unconstitutional? According to the 4th Amendment,

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It is time for Americans everywhere to stand up to the TSA and refuse participate in this madness. There are several things we can do to stop it.

1. Join in on the National Opt-Out Day and We Won't Fly on November 24th.
2. Relentlessly call your congressman and senators and tell them they must work to get the TSA to change these ridiculous, unconstitutional procedures.
3. Pressure the airlines to pressure the TSA and Congress about this.
4. Stop flying and start driving as much as possible until it changes.

This must be done en masse to be effective. If everyone who is truly troubled by this takes action we can restore sanity and maintain safety in the process. If not, who knows what’s next!

Footnotes

1. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter011002.asp
2. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/body-scanners-dangerous-scientists/
3. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240193/Body-scanner-wouldnt-foiled-syringe-bomber-says-MP-worked-new-machines.html

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