HOPE AND CHANGE? YOU ASKED FOR IT..........................

Posted by Jared Law (912 Project) In addition to the common-sense concerns about repeated doses of radiation from the 'forced porn scanners,' AKA 'naked body scanners,' making people submit to molestation by government employees to be able to travel by air is tyrannical, it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America: Amendment IV 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. I don't know about you, but refusing to be submitted to radiation which isn't necessary for medical care, the certainty of being molested by government employees if you refuse the radiation, is a ridiculous violation of the Fourth Amendment; it is unreasonable to insist that gov't employees see me naked, and if I refuse, they get to molest me. NO THANKS! True, it IS our choice to travel by air or not, but if they refuse to profile terrorists, they will convince many that this is necessary for our own safety. "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." -Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1738) Benjamin Franklin is also credited with the following quote: "Those who are willing to trade liberty for security deserve neither, and will lose both." This is precisely what he was talking about. It's time to do some actual terrorist profiling. I CANNOT WAIT for Republicans to take control of the United States House of Representatives in January; hopefully we have elected enough principled patriots that we can restore the liberty of Americans who travel by air! Here are the related news stories: -------- Flight attendants union upset over new pat-down procedures By: Christopher Sign PHOENIX - A flight attendants union with 2,000 members is upset over what it calls "invasive pat-downs" recently implemented by the TSA. "We're getting calls daily about peoples' experiences, our members are concerned," said Deborah Volpe, Vice President of the Association of Flight Attendants Local 66. Volpe confirmed that the union is offering advice to its flight attendants, who mostly work for Tempe-based USAirways, involving the security moves. According to a union email obtained by ABC15, it tells flight attendants if they opt out of using the body scanner through security and are required to undergo a pat-down to ask the pat-down be conducted in a private area with a witness. "We don't want them in uniform going through this enhanced screening where their private areas are being touched in public," said Volpe. "They actually make contact with the genital area." Some passengers have told ABC15 they've already encountered flight delays due to crew members having problems with TSA employees. "It (delay) was over three hours when they finally found a crew member to take her place," said Les Johnson who says his Charlotte bound flight was delayed. "She (flight attendant) felt that she was groped and supposedly filed a claim." According to Volpe, complaints from flight attendants are expected to continue to increase and said some flight attendants are planning to file lawsuits. "They've already contacted the ACLU," said Volpe when referring to some members of the union. "We don't know if somebody may have had an experience with a sexual assault and its (pat-down) going to drudge up some bad memories." Volpe made it clear the union is not against security. "Security is the most important aspect, our offices were used as murder weapons," said Volpe. "Keep in mind we undergo extensive background checks and we fly quite often." Volpe said she has been a flight attendant for nearly 25 years and she and other union leaders are pushing for a "crew pass" system that would allow flight attendants and pilots to essentially by-pass security. "We don't want to delay anyone, we just feel this pat-down is a little much." -------- Airport screeners get more aggressive with pat By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The government's aggressive new pat-down searches at airports are raising privacy concerns and dividing frequent fliers. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screeners last week began more aggressively patting down airline passengers as a matter of policy across the country. The agency calls it one of its several layers of security to keep travelers safe. "Pat downs are one important tool to help TSA detect hidden and dangerous items such as explosives," the agency says. The new searches are done with screeners' hands sliding over a passenger's body. However, the searches require screeners to touch passengers' breasts and genitals. And that's prompting some fliers and the American Civil Liberties Union to question the policy's intrusiveness and effectiveness. Frequent business traveler Richard Boyd of Beverly Hills says the pat downs "serve no real purpose." "It's another TSA delusion of enhancing security," Boyd says. "It will accomplish nothing other than adding to a traveler's frustration and time required to clear security. It should be abandoned before implemented." Pat-down searches are used when a passenger sets off a metal detector, chooses not to go through a "full-body" scanning machine or the machine detects something suspicious. 'Invasive' techniques Frequent flier Leslie Ashor says she advocates "anything that keeps us safe," but she's concerned about a search she underwent Thursday at Denver's airport. "I stood there thinking that this is somewhat humiliating, even though I didn't know all the people around me," says Ashor, an architect from San Diego. "As a woman, it is somewhat unnerving to have someone touching you in these areas in full public view." The TSA has private screening areas, but Ashor says she doesn't opt to use them to save time. An effective pat down "has to be invasive" and touch both breasts and genitals, says Billie Vincent, a former security director for the Federal Aviation Administration. "It is clearly a technique that most people would consider an invasion of their privacy." Vincent says the new procedures were instituted because the TSA wants to make pat downs as effective as the full-body scanning machines. The machines — considered by some fliers to be virtual strip searches — were installed at many airports in March after a Christmas Day airline bombing attempt. The TSA plans to have about 1,000 installed by the end of next year. Chris Calabrese, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, says the more aggressive pat downs should be stopped until a thorough analysis of the policy is done. "Are we giving people two intolerable actions at airports?" Calabrese asks. "They can be virtually strip-searched or endure a really aggressive grope?" The TSA says privacy is an important consideration and stresses that the searches are done by personnel of the same gender as passengers. "We look to ensure people's privacy while ensuring the skies are safe," says TSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball. The more aggressive pat-down procedures were tested this summer at airports in Boston and Las Vegas before implementation at all airports. The new pat-down method is as "ineffective as any other method they use," says flier Patrick Mathiowetz of Middleton, Wis. Mathiowetz, a sales director in the dairy products manufacturing industry, says he gets patted down whenever he refuses to go through a "full-body" scanning machine or a carry-on baggage screener detects something suspicious in his briefcase. Some support searches Some frequent fliers support the more aggressive pat downs. Rob Newman of Los Angeles supports the TSA's attempts to improve security. He says a terrorist could conceal a weapon in the buttocks and welcomes more thorough searches. "I'm all for whatever is most effective in ensuring the plane I get on is safe," he says. Frequent flier Jay Burns of the Village of Loch Lloyd, Mo., agrees. "If this stops a terrorist, I am in favor," Burns says. The TSA won't discuss details of pat-down procedures or its overall security policies. However, it warns in a statement: "Passengers should continue to expect an unpredictable mix of security layers that include explosives trace detection, advanced imaging technology, canine teams, among others."