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Jewish World Review
Nov. 22, 2010/ 15 Kislev, 5771
Keep Your Hands Off My Constitution
By
Arnold Ahlert
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I sat down to write this column about something, anything other than the descent of the Transportation Security Agency into totalitarian madness, but I just couldn't do it. For the past two years, Americans have been subjected to outright thuggery masquerading as representative government, as progressives have rammed their agenda through a Congress whose contempt for the wishes of a majority of Americans has been undeniable. A lot of Americans thought the 2010 election was a watershed moment in this country's fight against those who would rule us with impunity. It was not. My fellow Americans, this airport insanity and the government's steadfast refusal to back down is the one fight we must not lose, for the simplest of reasons: if bureaucrats can grope us against our will, government of, by and for the people is over.
This is not an exaggeration, nor is it an exaggeration to say that those who insist such procedures are absolutely necessary are outright liars. The state of Israel is surrounded on all sides by people who would annihilate it given the opportunity, and even they have not succumbed to the ham-fisted methods our government overlords would impose on us--even as most of the "anointed" avoid the humiliation to which they subject the benighted masses. Never has the disconnect between politicians who live under a different set of rules than the rest of us been more pronounced.
Every member of Congress and the Obama administration, including every person in the TSA, should be forced to endure an "enhanced" pat down--just before this odious system of "security" is tossed on the ash heap of history. In fact, turn the mass groping into a reality TV show. Call it "Hands on America" complete with post-grope interviews. Americans would likely be mesmerized to hear the thoughts of a just-violated Nancy Pelosi or a John "Don't You Know Who I Am" Kerry, or any of the other "do as I say, not as I do" crowd.
Every reasonable American knows what this nonsense is all about: it's about protecting an ideology instead of flyers. It is the essence of progressivism's worship of political correctness, a universe hermetically sealed off from common sense and common decency. It is the universe of people who have witnessed the decades-long litany of atrocities committed by Islamic terrorists, culminating in the worst domestic attack ever perpetrated on American soil--and conclude that everyone must be considered "equally suspect."
These are the very same progressives who would legalize millions of border-busters without having the slightest idea of who they truly are, or where their loyalties lie. The very same ones who countenance totalitarianism at our airports in order to "protect us," even as they allow those borders to remain wide open.
Wide open even as the deadliest war going on in the world today is being waged along our southern border.
I've never been much of a conspiracy theorist. But one has to wonder if the same administration which nationalized banks, insurance companies, car companies, and student loans, along with their ill-disguised determination to do the same thing with our healthcare system, has its eyes on the airline industry. The "crisis"--as in never let a crisis go to waste"--has been, in part, manufactured by the government itself. In an interview with Fox News' Sheppard Smith, TSA Security Chief John Pistole said that, while the Christmas Day underwear bomber was a factor in the security ramp up, he also revealed that, "we've also had a number of covert testing done by the General Accounting Office, Inspector Generals and our officers of inspection that have been able to get through security because of inadequate screening, including inadequate pat downs."
Translation? Government has proven government is doing a lousy job, so the public must bear the brunt of our inadequacy.
The public reaction? A lot of people intend to stop flying, which will eventually bankrupt the airline industry, and, with this bunch in charge, will make it eligible for a "tax-payer bailout," aka nationalization. Like I said, very conspiratorial--but very much within the realm of possibility given the Obama administration's two-year track record.
Such a reaction by the public is also the essence of wrong-headed thinking. It is not incumbent on us to give up flying because government has turned it into an ordeal. On the other hand, it is absolutely incumbent on each and every one of us to demand that government stop the nonsense and deal with reality. Stop looking for the bomb and start looking for the bomber, just like the Israelis do. Stop demanding that Americans forfeit Constitutional rights in order to protect Political Correctness. If that means certain population demographics, aka Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 45, engender heightened scrutiny as a result, so be it. Most American understand the difference between irrational profiling based on prejudice, and rational profiling based on undeniable reality.
And it is worth remembering that innocent Muslims have no more desire to be aboard an exploding jetliner than anyone else.
What Americans are up against is formidable. There is a cadre of dedicated elitists for whom the ideology of political correctness--and its jackbooted enforcement--is the only thing standing between them and utter irrelevancy. They are aided and abetted by the useful idiots in media, academia and Hollywood, all of whom consider ordinary Americans beneath contempt, and unworthy of the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Airport security is nothing more than a subterfuge for the latest expansion of progressive power, and it's time Americans realized the bottom line:
If they can grab your "junk," they can do anything. And they can do it anywhere, using "safety" as their totalitarian calling card.
This is our "Bunker Hill," America. No retreat, no surrender.
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Previously:
11/17/10: Grope and Change
11/14/10: Taking Back Our Country, One School At a Time
11/11/10: Checks (and Balances), Please
11/08/10: Curtain Up, Progressives Down
11/04/10: Last Chance, Republicans
11/01/10: By Their Own Words Shall Ye Know Them
10/28/10: Progressive Determination to Undermine American Elections
10/25/10: Shock, but more importantly, action: De-Unionize Public Schools now
10/20/10: Multiculturalism? Check, Please
10/18/10: Healthcare: Alice in Wonderland vs. The Constitution
10/11/10: Vote for Restoring the Rule of Law in November
10/11/10: Dems: Running From Clarity
10/07/10: Hypersensitive Hogwash
10/04/10: Comprehensive Con Artists
09/29/10: Why Dems Are Going Down in November
09/27/10: The Unholiest of Unholy Alliances
09/22/10: Two Words for Republicans to Remember: I Won
09/20/10: Purging Me First Politicians
09/17/10: No More Lesser of Two Evils
09/15/10: Recovery Arms Race
09/13/10: Bigots in the Majority --- Again?
09/09/10: Giving Voters Something to Vote For
09/07/10: Irresponsible Dems, Incomprehensible Bills
09/02/10: War Weary Americans vs. Implacable Islamists
08/31/10: A Dream Debased
08/25/10: American Bigots Versus Media Propagandists
08/23/10: Recovery Bummer
08/19/10: An Unholy Alliance of Radicals
08/16/10: You've Lost America, Mr. President
08/13/10: The Twin Towers of Progressive Disconnect
08/11/10: A Far Better National Discussion
08/09/10: It's Only One Dead Nun
08/06/10: Incremental Tyranny
08/04/10: Ground Zero Mosque: Context Counts
08/02/10: The Arizona Ruling: a Gift for November
07/29/10: The United Cities of America
07/26/10: JournoList: Coordinated Ideological Bankruptcy
07/20/10: Go For Broke Or Get Out of the Way
07/14/10: You're a Liberal/Progressive if You Believe…
07/12/10: $33-an-hour--For Sleeping On the Job
07/08/10: Extortionist Government
07/06/10: Commerce Clause Totalitarians
07/01/10: Another Public School Travesty in MA
06/30/10: Calling YOUR Bluff, Mr. President
06/28/10: A Trifecta of Progressive Corruption
06/23/10: Plug the Darn Hole --- In Our Border
06/21/10: Our Empty-Suit-in-Chief
06/16/10: Betraying Our Children
06/14/10: Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt?
06/07/10: Politically Correct Warfare
06/01/10: Bill Maher's Black President
05/25/10: A Mosque At Ground Zero
05/23/10: Libs Stand Tall --- For Mexico
05/19/10: The 'Unintended Consequences' of Liberalism
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05/10/10: Greeks, Leaks and and Double-Speak
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05/02/10: Republicans: Playing Not to Lose Doesn't Cut It
04/28/10: Arizona: Progressivism's Waterloo?
04/26/10: Son of Amnesty
04/22/10: Mortgages and Moral Meltdowns
04/20/10: Bashing Christians Or Gays?
04/15/10: Personal Integri-tea
04/12/10: Fools, Tools and Ghouls
04/08/10: (Tea) Party On
04/05/10: The Triumph of Mediocrity
04/02/10: Two For the Road
03/29/10: The Innate Immorality of Liberalism
03/24/10: The Art of War
03/22/10: I Want My Country Back
03/18/10: A Perpetual Process
03/17/10: American Exhibitionists
03/15/10: A Light Bulb Moment of Clarity
03/10/10: Little Things Mean A Lot
02/03/10: Budgetary Fork in the Road
02/01/10: Liberal Economic Illiteracy
01/27/10: Roe-ing and Wade-ing Back to Reason
01/25/10: Arrogance When Up, Denial When Down
01/20/10: Connecting the Educational Dots
01/19/10: The Next Tea Party?
01/15/10: The Myth That Keeps on Giving
01/13/10: Airport Security Begins Away From the Airport
01/11/10: Secrets and Lies
01/08/10: Embracing Bigotry or Rejecting Bullying?
01/06/10: Hanging by an Ideological Thread
01/04/10: Our Wonderama Bureaucracy
12/30/09: A Day Off
12/28/09: Dangerous Myths
12/25/09: I, Me, Mine
12/23/09: A Very Harry Christmas
12/21/09: My Opinon
12/18/09: The Party of Repeal
12/15/09: Privileged Exemption
11/30/09: Settled Science and Unsettled Children
11/30/09: American Sharia Law
11/23/09:The Trial (Travesty) of the Century
11/04/09: American Vampires and Their Political Enablers
11/01/09: Opting Out of Insanity?
10/28/09: Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer. Brain Required
10/26/09: Communism: Nazism With Better PR
10/21/09: Just Asking
10/16/09: Cost Projections vs. Actual Costs, or Hope and Change vs. Reality
10/14/09: News you can use …
10/07/09: Incremental Insidiousness
10/05/09: MIA: Common Sense and Common Decency
09/30/09: Iran: Bad Options and Unpreparedness
09/21/09: Crying Racism: the Last Refuge of Scoundrels
09/11/09: 9/11 Cannot Be Sanitized
09/08/09: Truthers and Consequences
09/01/09: A Paper Trail Challenge for the Mainstream Media
08/31/09: Drowning in Amorality
08/26/09: The Republican Recovery Program
© 2010, Arnold Ahlert
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