How many more freedoms will the Obama Administration take away from everyday Americans before we realize we're not free and also not safe? The pat-downs do nothing but violate the US Constitution because they violate the reasonable search and seizure clause; there is no just cause to search everyone without a credible threat. But that aside, it's also ineffective.
Why is this ineffective? Because the threat is not from passengers who are American citizens and originating their flights from the US. The documented threats have come from foreigners outside the US who hate Americans. Richard Reid and the diaper-bomber were that. So how often does it have to happen before American officials get it through their thick heads they're looking in the wrong place? Americans with white skin and outside the ages of 18-45 are just not doing this stuff.
Ah, political correctness, I forgot. Everyone has to be treated equally as they sing Kumbaya and drink bottled water from mountain springs.
The dreaded P-word must be brought to bear: Profiling must be used, because it's the most powerful weapon in our arsenal. It's also the smartest. It's also the least intrusive to the greatest number of people. (Hmmm, might have a Marxist idea going there, but I digress...). Simply out, we know who these people are. Let's look for them.
There's no question that more than a few people will be insulted when they are profiled. However, that's just how the dice roll; they are unlucky enough to be born of the same race as those who would harm us. But if they are people of good will, they will understand. And, this policy works under the 4th Amendment, because these individuals are of the ethnic makeup of ALL of those who did prior bombings.
That we don't so this is just so damned stupid.
As a side thought, maybe it's why we haven't found Osama Bin Laden; I guess the administration, in it's zeal to not make anyone feel bad, is looking for an 80-year-old white man with bad teeth and speaks cajun rather than a 6-foot-5-inch tall Muslim terrorist of Saudi descent with dark skin. Yeah, that makes sense.
OK, even if you won't profile, at least make some attempt to stop foreigners from bombing incoming international planes. Here's an idea: 100 years ago we had ports of entry like Ellis Island and Locust Point to control the incoming flow of people. Frankly, it was to control the spread of disease and protect Americans from epidemics. In its day, Ellis Island was the foremost public health hospital of its kind in the world. Today, Americans need the same kind of protections, except in this era, from the disease of terrorist air passengers.
Let's build a big airport in Maine, where all international European flights must land and be searched. The people don't even have to get off the plane - send a bomb-sniffing dog down the aisles and through the cargo bay. If the bomber sets off the bomb during this search, well, at least it didn't happen over a densely populated area. I feel bad for the dog, though.
The plan has to be something like this because the threats are clearly aimed at the US from outside. We can't do the searches outside of the US because it's not our sovereign territory. So perform this non-invasive, yet thorough search on our own soil.
It's such a simple idea, no wonder the politicos and bureaucrats can't get their intellectually-paralyzed brains around it.
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