And they post in this thread? Or does 'itt' mean something else?

Blame the Jews

Yes, thanks.

A majority of republicans in office were against the scanners even when Bush was president.

I think that the correct play is to opt for the patdown and just start moaning halfway through.

A When Harry met Sally moment.

How is this about partisan politics?

The scanners started under Bush and they're continuing under Obama. It'll certainly be interesting to see if any of the more mainline Republicans try and make political hay as a result of this— but I doubt they will. Clearly, subjugating the American people is a bipartisan effort.

Its not, the entrenched bureaucracy is the driver of these "inspections"

How come everyone on this forum here seems to hate on conservatives?

They don't. They hate on reactionary bigoted morons. The two are not necessarily equivalent.

I disagree with this. Its not like this has been the status quo that is only just now getting media play. This is all new. There are still only 200-300 something machines at airports in the U.S., and they are planning on installing hundreds more in the next few years. The Obama administration clearly has to the power to put a curb on this and isn't.

the typical conservative claim on talk radio goes something like this: "i saw a TSA agent making an old lady get out of a wheelchair to be frisked and then a guy with a long beard and turban walks right through."

you can ad the "scary dark narrative" to it, whatever, that's your normal fall back and it's you adding that. To me and others its about assigning risk to the groups who are most prone to be doing whatever it is you are supposed to be screening for and whatever their nationality, skin color or religion then who gives a flying ****. Now does that make me or you more obsessed with race?

This has seemed like a Drudge driven thing and he's always been more libertarian than conservative so whatever. He likes to try to drive issues that offend him. My issue with you guys is everything is an apparent racial dog whistle, especially when you are losing.

I could give a flying flip about Hannipie but i have heard Malkin enough (who is not white) to know that she believes that we should profile. She thinks they should know who is suspect (higher risk) before they get to the airport and only those in a suspect pool should be subject to further scrutiny beyond passing through normal checkpoints. I don't know if she wants them all felt up and radioactive from xrays.

I thought it was a bigoted appeal? Meh, i don't know but I do know if it was Mexicans flying planes into buildings and trying to down jet liners i would not get offended if Mexicans got a lot extra pre security. In fact i'd be pointing my rage at those in my race causing me to get the extra screening.

You're right, of course. There are no downsides to profiling. I mean, it's not like the Muslims could ever find a white female who'd get through security unchecked to do their dirty work. Not a chance.

This is the stuff that I think leads everyone to believe you've just got a weird fixation on defending this stuff; "a few conservatives"? "Nit-picking?" "weak evidence"? Sounds all like hand-wavy apolgetics to me, in the guise of moral outrage about my conduct.

As I said, if this is just weak nit picking of a few conservatives, I'll ask again, for like the fifth time: which right wingers am I not accounting for? Whose views am I not taking into account here? ACCEPTING THE PREMISE I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU OR RON PAUL.

Can I add that as a signature to my posts. Like I want a line at the end of every single one of my politics posts that reads "Assume I am not talking about Ron Paul or taso unless otherwise explicitly referenced" just to avoid taso's assumptions I'm talking about him or his heros.

Its not new, the machines are, but not the secondary extra screening. In 2003 I upgraded my seat in Nashville. At the gate, after security, I was personally checked along with my bags, wanded and pat down. The guy beside me at the table went through the same procedure. Turns out we were both seated in the front of the plane, both had upgrades.

Now every time there is a new smuggler the security goes up. If any politician puts a halt to the screenings, and there is an incident, their political life is over. They act on the recommendations of the TSA for the most part.

The big question is who has the chutzpah to accept the next event.

Well, you're advocating for explicitly race-based security measures... so you? That was a pretty easy question.

Dude these aren't dog whistles. They are regular whistles. There's no dog whistle in "I think Arabs should have fewer civil rights than everyone else."

I wonder if Taso is still reading this thread.

I love that! "You can't profile because one day they are going to use a white guy/girl or an old lady in a wheelchair!" I mean it's not like they haven't had their chances right, i'm sure there are tons of white chicks in line looking to become martyrs for their 72 virgins...

Stop acting like this is a fringe political position that dvaut is attacking. These are the conservative leaders today: Palin, Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Oreilly. Look at the newseek $ numbers. Look at the type of people winning primaries. Hannity and Malkin's discussion is the exact reasoning the vast majority of conservatives use, the polls/quotes are out there! This is not analogous to claiming liberals want to ban violent video games because Joe Lieberman said so. If you can't criticize members of a group based on the public figures they align themselves with then what's the point of party affiliation anyway?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_suicide_bomber

this is about as useful as that link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFa...eature=related

As someone in a wheelchair who travels a decent amount I will say the security peopleare incredibly reasonable everywhere I have been. They have to take me to the side and do a manual pat down. They are professional and I have never experienced the slightest issue.

Still its a big joke overall

Let the record show that Brian J thinks that the only people who could be terrorists are non-white males.

And that non-white males should have fewer rights than Real Americans.

???

let the record show that Brian J is not white

Tried to link something from CNN, some guy working for TSA comes out and says that all people must go through this because of potential Al Kadas. This is after some story of a passanger who refused to go through the scanners. Then the TSA people said he would have to pay a 10k fine and possible legal action etc if he didnt go through the screening.