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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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