I'm not trying to be insensitive, but I have an intellectual problem with the TSA screening and groping that is being done at our airports. There are about 150,000 flights each DAY in the USA with over 3,238,786 people in those planes.To date, not a single airplane has been blown-up. Twice, two attempts were made resulting in the would-be bomber injuring himself instead of blowing up the plane.
However, and this is where it gets curious for me, some 40,000 people get killed every year in automobile crashes, and that seems to be okay with everyone. We elect people to office to run this country that may or may not have any background in large scale financing, or any knowledge of law-making, and if it turns out that one of those politicians is found to be unethical, and it is proven by their peers, that's okay too, we either leave them in office or in many cases re-elect them at a later date; We graduate students into the medical field and as patients we are clueless as to how any given doctor did in their studies but we trust what they are saying is true for us and we follow their instructions, usually never questioning the doctor; We allow prejudiced people to teach and train our children in public schools, as long as those politicians I mentioned earlier, agree to some sort of accreditation for those teachers (I might also mention that lately, some of them actually turn on our precious little ones and indoctrinate them into sex). There are so many more analogies but I think you get the picture.
Now back to the screening thing. Don't you think the present system of discouraging citizens to fly on an airplane which is the product of a private industry, is a little out of kilter given the other curiosities I have given? I mean, there is a lot of money being spent; there is a blatant violation of the 4th amendment of our constitution being imposed on the citizenry and VERY unqualified people doing the groping (perhaps assigned by seniority or some other union logic) and all this is being done to stop someone from doing something never done before. And I can't think of an analogy where we have done so much, spent so much, assigned people to do things they are not qualified to do, in order to stop something from happening that has never happened before.
The statistics in the first paragraph are not accurate: it is almost impossible to get accurate information because flights are canceled every day and people don't show up to use the airplane seats they paid for, but using the statistics that are available it would mean each plane carries approximately 22 people plus crew on each flight. That means it would require more than 3 planes to be blown up every day for a year (that's 365 days) to kill as many people as are killed in car crashes. Think about that! And remember, that would be every day, day after day, for the last say 50 years.
The government has chosen this opportunity and method to take away our constitutional right to the 4th amendment:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
And all without probable cause. And if here, without just cause, where else? Is this the start of a Socialist nation, where citizens have no rights? Oh don't get so upset with me, remember you and I elected these people; people who have no experience, (they're like doctors who "practice" medicine) they practice politics; "factional scheming for power" (one of the definitions in the Webster's New World Dictionary) but when they show us what they are willing to do to us, why don't we get upset with THEM, and not with the one pointing it out?
So, do you want to allow this government to take away your 4th amendment rights; or force you to drive a car that statistically has a better chance of getting you killed, because you don't want to face the embarrassment of the screening or governmentally sanctioned sexual groping? MAYBE, instead, you ought to contact your practicing politician and tell him or her what you think.
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