This new policy is
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STUPID!!!!
This is a stupid
Cart after horse stupid. Barn door closed stupid. Would not have detected the crotch bomb stupid. All around Stupid. Right up there with no blankets or anything in your lap or getting out of your seat the last hour of a flight. As stupid as not being able to carry liquids. As stupid as taking off your shoes. All knee-jerk reactions where they jerked so hard that they hit themselves in the head with their knee.
This gives our government one thing: a policy to quote as an excuse for harassing people. Up until now, they just denied profiling and lied about targeting certain groups of people for extra screening. Now, they can quote "policy".
No, wait, two things. It also gives a lot of people a whole 'nother reason to hate us.
Unless they are going to pat crotches and breasts and slide in a little cavity search, there's a whole lot of space on the human body to hide stuff from a pat down.
Also, the government can demand all the screenings that they want, but these screenings are supposed to be done in other countries under other governments' policies. We can't control what happens.
While we're on the subject of
, how about this new shit where Canada is supposed to give the US the passenger list for every flight that goes over US air space. Not just the ones that land, but also the ones that fly over. The US wants to know who's on that non-stop from Vancouver to Cabo. Unfortunately, this demand violates Canadian privacy laws.
Anyone care to get me started on the conservatives who are bashing Obama about this after they voted against funding airport security projects? Or the idiot DeMint who is blocking hearings on a TSA director because of that most horrific threat to the US: TSA unionizing. Oh, the horror!!!!
Oh, and to all those people jumping up Napolitano's ass over her Sunday comment - listen to the whole quote, not the partial, out of context quote being spewed by right wing nut jobs and Faux Newz.
I could go one for another page the hypocrisy of conservatives bashing Obama over his response and the plans for prosecuting this guy. Um, assholes, remember how you handled the shoe bomber?
Yes, as a matter of fact I do feel better for getting that out of my system.