It is absolutely impossible to plug all holes at an airport to insure against a breach of security. With the employees, both airline and municipal, the purveyors of services such as food and equipment, the number of possibilities of a breach is always going to be there. Any attempt to tighten security or monitoring of basic airport operations would bring it to a halt.
In an effort to make airline travelers feel safer, body scans and groping has become the tool of choice for TSA (Transport Security Administration). After 9/11 this agency was created under the Department of Transportation and later moved to the Department of Homeland Security. The indignities that airline travelers must endure likely have little or no effect on the safety of their flight. The audacity of the agency is unbelievable. When people begin to complain about the full body scanning and the groping by security agents the director of homeland security, Jeanette Napolitano had the audacity to state “if they don’t like it they can find another way to travel”
If you are not an airline traveler and are not subjected to the TSA activities at airports you certainly should be concerned about the agency from which this organization sprouts namely, Department of Homeland Security. This agency is delving into your private lives on a daily basis making a dossier on everyone from members of Congress to individuals who participate in tea party activities.
During the campaign of Barack Obama he made his statement more than one time that he wanted to see a “national security force” as large as the Army and as well-equipped. That statement seems to have passed without notice and my question now is, is the Department of Homeland Security gradually becoming that so-called security force and TSA being a symptom of the power of this agency? In a nutshell I am more concerned about the agency than I am about their feeble attempt to curb terrorism on airplanes.
TSA alone has 67,000 employees and that number is growing. While this number does not represent all employees of the Department of Homeland Security it is significant to note the rapid growth. Is it possible that this is the genesis of the security force alluded to by Barack Obama? I think it is.
When I was a boy we used to be truly amazed by the fact that German citizens under the Hitler regime were required to carry papers and show those as they passed between villages and cities. We could not believe that people would be subjected to such scrutiny but wait, we could well be seeing that right here in our own country.
One of the proposals of the Department of Homeland security is to create a federal driver’s license. This license will contain a digital picture of the driver and encoded scanning marks for further identification. States who refuse to comply with this order will lose federal funds. They are being blackmailed. This driver’s license providing homeland security with a track of your movements along with the information they are presently gathering from credit card transactions. Does this all sound too familiar?
Internal memos of the organization included notice to all law enforcement agencies which includes TSA to be put on alert and keep an eye out for possible terrorists including returning veterans, pro-life organizations or pro-gun groups. In other words anyone who might be an opponent of the new regime.
I have only recited a couple of items that this all powerful organization is undertaking but there are many more. Each day new rules are handed down that further curtail your activity and monitor daily life.
No, I am not as afraid of some terrorist who may be plotting an attack on an airplane from some remote mountain cave as I am from the awesome power of our new “security force”.
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