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Jewish World Review Dec. 27, 2010/ 20 Teves, 5771 PC Airport Safety is an Oxymoron By Arnold Ahlert http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | I'm going to try to explain this one more time, because I think it is critically important. Freedom doesn't die all at once. It gets chipped away, piece by piece, until what we once had becomes unrecognizable. On December 22nd in Austin, Texas, 56-year-old Claire Hirschkind suffered the kind of indignity that is only possible in a society that is morally confused and, as a result, Constitutionally uninformed. When she refused to have her breasts groped by a TSA agent at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, she was arrested. As infuriating as that is, it pales by comparison to the statements of two other travelers. "I understand her side of it, and their side as well, but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it," said one. "It's unfortunate that that happened and she didn't get to fly home, but it makes me feel a little safer," said another. Memo to the clueless duo: what's going on at airports around the nation is not, repeat not, for the protection of the flying public. This odious system is set up to protect one thing and one thing only: political correctness. In this particular incarnation of PC, it is the willful and calculated determination to ignore the reality that virtually all terrorist acts are committed by radical Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 45. If that were the extent of it, it would be problematic enough. But it is precisely the same PC which countenances that radicalization in American mosques, madrassas, prisons and on college campuses, even as those who point out such realities are labeled "Islamophobic." It is the same PC which erodes the common sense and common decency of a public becoming "accustomed" to getting scanned and groped by government strangers in order to "feel a little safer." Feel a little safer? Here's a reality check for the feelers: "A person briefed on the latest tests tells ABC News the (TSA) failure rate approaches 70 percent at some major airports. Two weeks ago, TSA's new director said every test gun, bomb part or knife got past screeners at some airports." Got that? Seven-out-of-ten components which could be used to blow up a jetliner--or allow it to be hijacked and turned into a 9/11-like missile--got past the technology and the bureaucratic gropers. So much for feelings--one would think. And there, in a nutshell, is the enduring attractiveness of political correctness. One need not think at all. Ever. One needs only to have feelings in order to move un-Constitutional mountains. And not even a particularly large palette of feelings. In fact, all that is necessary is to punch one's admission ticket into the la-la land of political correctness, is one feeling expressed in two words: I'm offended. Thus, the truly successful airport security system used by the Israelis, the one which focuses on potential bombers instead of bombs, will never be embraced by America, because it will "offend" someone. Better to thoroughly offend women like Claire Hirschkind who wears a pacemaker-like device and says she is a former rape victim. Better to toss her to the ground, handcuff her, and drag her twenty-five yards across the airport terminal floor because she had the temerity to think her Constitutional rights were being violated, when she drew the line at having her breasts groped. Better to humiliate people in actuality in order to protect the theory of offended-ness that forms the foundation of political correctness. Once again, for the terminally offended, along with those who think feeling is a viable substitute for thinking: the ultimate destination of the cancer known as political correctness is totalitarianism. It is the dissolution of rights and freedom sold under the banner of protecting people from being offended. It is the suppression of everything deemed hurtful or hateful by those in positions of power in the media, academia and government who prefer a populace cowed into an offense-free acquiescence of "proper" feelings. It is the Orwellian attempt to pack human nature into a sausage casing of conformity and docility, and if such runs counter to reality, reality be damned. Claire Hirschkind is an American patriot, whether she knows it or not. She is the embodiment of the nearly-extinct American ethos of "don't tread on me," which so many Americans have willfully surrendered for their "protection," even as that protection is revealed for the seven-out-of-ten fraud it truly is. She is the antithesis of those who have been gulled into believing that airports are now "Constitution-free" zones--lest someone be offended. "Our officers are trained to treat all passengers with dignity and respect. Security is not optional," said a TSA statement released Wednesday night. Tell me, my fellow Americans, the "dignified' and "respectful" ways one submits to having their private body parts groped. Explain how security isn't "optional" when "every test gun, bomb part or knife got past screeners at some airports." Tell me why you prefer that Claire Hirschkind and other Americans be humiliated to prevent admitting that Islamic terrorists are the over-riding problem. Explain to me the utter schizophrenia of a government which simultaneously embraces totalitarianism at our airports and a free-for-all on our southern border. Ms. Hirschkind, I hope you get a chance to read this column. I suspect right now you could use the support of Americans who empathize with your determination not to go quietly into the night. There are more of us than you might imagine. People unwilling to submit to thuggery sold as protection. People who refuse to substitute emotions and whining for reason and logic. People who are genuinely offended by those who use being offended like a club in order to beat our democratic republic into submission. You are not alone. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment on JWR Contributor Arnold Ahlert's column, by clicking here. Previously: 12/23/10: Getting America Back On Track 12/20/10: A Collectivist Coalition of Convenience 12/15/10: The President Who Wasn't There 12/13/10: Tech-No! 12/08/10: A Lethal Military, Inclusive or Not 12/06/10: The ‘Unexpected’ Consequences of Progressivism 12/01/10: Leakers and Losers 11/29/10: ‘We Won’, Part One 11/22/10: Keep Your Hands Off My Constitution 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 05/17/10: 'Los' Suns: Stuck on Stupido 05/12/10: Union Audacity: Yes We Will! 05/10/10: Greeks, Leaks and and Double-Speak 05/05/10: Twelve Million Illegals --- or Thirty? 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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