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Finally, The ACLU Is Concerned About TSA Groping….Oh, Wait, They’re Not
Written By : William Teach

Leave it to the ACLU to ignore an issue that has Americans, both Left and Right, up in arms. Have you ever noticed that the ACLU tends to ignore the real issues 90% of the time? And the other 10% of the time, they usually do the right thing for the wrong reason(s). Witness the national ACLU

The ACLU said, “[During] the new standard pat-down, a screener of the same sex will examine your head, shirt collar area, and waistband, and may use either the front or back of his or her hands to feel your body, including buttocks, around breasts, and between the legs, feeling up to the top of the thigh. Women in tight skirts that don’t allow an agent to feel the thigh area may be asked to remove the skirt in a private screening area and will be given a gown or towel to put on.”

If you search the ACLU website, there is zip. Nada. Zilch. Nor any complaints from the national ACLU in the news about people getting groped and abused. A few State ACLU chapters have chimed in, but, they don’t seem all that concerned, either. And, yes, flying is a privilege, not a right, as the saying goes, yet, we do still have a 4th Amendment, and the people doing this stop and gropes are federal employees, with all the power and none of the responsibility. Were they a private business doing the security, one would think that the airlines would have slapped those who go overboard down, as well as adjusted the written procedures.

Now, if you’ve had problems, let the ACLU know. Because, apparently, none of them actually watch or read the news in this era of 24 hour cable news channels and easily accessible news on the ‘Net.

Fortunately, they are concerned with

Back to the original article the quote came from, the writer makes an excellent point

After telling your child for years to not let anyone touch them, you’ll now have to add an addendum … unless it’s a TSA employee.

Meanwhile, Janet Napolitano appears to be about to cave to CAIR

“On the pat downs, CAIR [the Council on American-Islamic Relations] has recommended that Muslim women wearing hijabs refuse to go through the full body pat downs before boarding planes,” CNSNews.com asked Napolitano at a Monday press conference. “Will you insist that they do go through full body pat downs before boarding planes?”

“Look, we have, like I said before, we are doing what we need to do to protect the traveling public and adjustments will be made where they need to be made,” Napolitano responded. “With respect to that particular issue, I think there will be more to come. But, again, the goal here, you know, we’re not doing this just to do it. We’re doing it because we need to keep powders and gels and liquids off of planes that are unauthorized just as we need to keep metals off of planes.

CAIR has put out their own little primer for jihadis, er, Muslims, to go through security. Anyone want to be that the TSA quietly changes their rules to accommodate the folks that we are most concerned with, you know, the members of a religion involved in the vast majority of airplane hijackings?

Crossed at Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach. sit back and Relax. we’ll dRive!

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  • Proud Infidel

    It came about during the B. Hussein Obama administration, so it’s OK with the Anti-Christian litigation Union. It will mostly affect white people, because if they search a muslim, that’s a guaranteed profiling accusation from CAIR. It’s being done mostly to working taxpayers, another genre the ACLU doesn’t care one whit about!

  • Anonymous

    ““With respect to that particular issue, I think there will be more to come.”

    Wow, talk about a non-answer. I guess the system works.

  • Anonymous

    Haven’t been patted down yet, but I find it amusing that they think it’s accomplishing anything anyway. Where is the logic in searching a pilot for weapons? We’re already at the controls of a multi-ton weapon of mass destruction right?

    I recall the buzz about letting pilots carry guns in the cockpit. Yeah, we don’t have a problem with you flying this big ass airplane with hundreds of passengers on board, but we have to draw the line at letting you carry a 9mm pistol. Too dangerous!

    • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

      I got a big pat down when I flew home from LA in June. I have a steel rod in my leg, sets of the scanners most of the time. The fact that the hand wand was only going off on my right lower leg, and the big scar on my knee should have been their first clue. The second clue was that I’m not a Muslim.

      Oh, and I had a money clip with a knife, albeit a small one, in my carry on bag. And a lighter. A bottle of contact lens solution, which could have contained anything.

      • Anonymous

        I hear you, Teach. Because we all know how many white, blonde males are fricking jihadists, right? Apparently, common sense isn’t one of the qualifying factors for becoming a TSA agent. It frustrates me to no end when I see the type of people being pulled out of line for specialized searching. My best friend is a captain at FedEx, and he told me yesterday that TSA took his wine bottle opener, even though he’s had it in his luggage for three months. I’m sure that agent was convinced that he had averted certain catastrophe even though my friend pointed out he was a crew member. Flying a 300-ton airplane.

        BTW, I have a steel plate in my right forearm with five screws, courtesy of a freak skiing accident 30 years ago, but fortunately, it’s never set off any security devices.

        • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

          What’s scarier to me, Hawk, is that sometimes the scanners go off, sometimes not. Makes me wonder what else is getting through.

          • StanW

            I can tell you what else is getting through… MUSLIMS. Unscathed and unsearched, because the TSA is not allowed to pull aside more than a certain number of them, else they get accused of PROFILING.

      • Anonymous

        I hear you, Teach. Because we all know how many white, blonde males are fricking jihadists, right? Apparently, common sense isn’t one of the qualifying factors for becoming a TSA agent. It frustrates me to no end when I see the type of people being pulled out of line for specialized searching. My best friend is a captain at FedEx, and he told me yesterday that TSA took his wine bottle opener, even though he’s had it in his luggage for three months. I’m sure that agent was convinced that he had averted certain catastrophe even though my friend pointed out he was a crew member. Flying a 300-ton airplane.

        BTW, I have a steel plate in my right forearm with five screws, courtesy of a freak skiing accident 30 years ago, but fortunately, it’s never set off any security devices.

    • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

      I got a big pat down when I flew home from LA in June. I have a steel rod in my leg, sets of the scanners most of the time. The fact that the hand wand was only going off on my right lower leg, and the big scar on my knee should have been their first clue. The second clue was that I’m not a Muslim.

      Oh, and I had a money clip with a knife, albeit a small one, in my carry on bag. And a lighter. A bottle of contact lens solution, which could have contained anything.

    • Anonymous

      “Where is the logic in searching a pilot for weapons? ”

      There is very little logic involved in any of this. It’s primarily emotion based.

  • soapboxsavvy

    The ACLU only got involved, publicly, after CAIR made a big deal about how these Muslims were being subjected to such searches. Why were they NOT involved prior to this? If these scans/pat-downs are against our liberties, why were they (ACLU) not up in arms about the citizens’ liberties all along? Why weren’t lawsuits filed from the inception of these searches?

  • StanW

    The TSA’s motto is “We’re not happy until you are not happy”

    They have been obsolete and useless since day ONE!

    A few weeks after 9/11, a U.S Marshall was flying across the country and stopped at the DFW airport. The TSA there decided his paperwork was not in order for him to carry a gun onboard and made him re-do it. After a long delay, he was allowed to go back through security, when they check his paperwork, examined his gun, X-rayed all of his bags, and confiscated his NAIL CLIPPERS!

    Add to that the fact that they would NEVER subject a Muslim to the type of invasive grouping that they will put a child.

    This needs to be stopped!

    • Anonymous

      Amen, Stan!

    • Anonymous

      Amen, Stan!

  • Lee

    “Flying is a privilege, not a right.” True
    Serving in the military is also a privilege, not a right. So the ACLU can go pound sand when they try to say that gays have a “right” to openly serve.

    • Anonymous

      I’d put driving in that category as well. Especially funny since I think I recall the ACLU coming in on the side of muslim women who refused to take their veils off for their DL photos.

  • http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

    Where the hell are all the people who were screaming about Bush “shredding the Constitution” when he allowed law enforcement agents tracking terrorists to use the same techniques that had been used by those tracking serial killers and drug smugglers for decades? Oh, right — if Obama does it, it’s A-OK!

  • http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

    I’m taking a flight in a couple of weeks. Now, while I don’t care if naked pictures of me get spread around the internet, I’m considering telling my fiancee to wear a headscarf and refuse either pictures or pat-downs.

    • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

      I personally don’t mind the body scanners. No big deal, IMO. However, you do have to wonder how soon there will be some sort of scandal with the pictures being saved and distributed.

      You just know the TSA will cave to CAIR.

    • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

      I personally don’t mind the body scanners. No big deal, IMO. However, you do have to wonder how soon there will be some sort of scandal with the pictures being saved and distributed.

      You just know the TSA will cave to CAIR.

    • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

      PS: I think that on Opt Out Day, Nov. 24th, day before Thanksgiving, everyone should fly in swim suits.

    • http://www.thepiratescove.us/ William_Teach

      PS: I think that on Opt Out Day, Nov. 24th, day before Thanksgiving, everyone should fly in swim suits.

  • gfchicago

    This just keeps getting weirder, theres a screaming headline on Drudge:

    GET READY: NOW PUTTING HANDS DOWN FLIERS’ PANTS!

    I know I’ll not fly again anytime real soon, until they get this crap straightened out.

    Over the last 9 years when I flew, I really didn’t have that many problems (three over the last few years), but I refuse to be put through the humiliation of what they are doing.

  • Anonymous

    Just make up a religion with a bizarre and nearly impossible set of criteria for who can touch you. Then claim religious discrimination when TSA fails to accomodate you. I bet the ACLU will support your rights then.

    According to my smithwiccan beliefs I can only be patted down by a female albino african midget in her mid 30s with a slight limp in her left leg. Also the room where it is conducted must be made entirely of redwood lumber and only have windows on the side facing my house.

    Do it, or I will scream bigotry!

    • StanW

      female albino african midget in her mid 30s with a slight limp in her left leg

      Would you accept a female albino ASIAN midget, if she were in her mid-20′s and had a limp in both legs? I’d really like to see how TOLERANT this new SmithWiccan religion of yours is.

      • Anonymous

        It is extremely intolerant, unreasonable, and inflexible.

        Otherwise the ACLU wouldn’t care.

        • StanW

          “It is extremely intolerant, unreasonable, and inflexible.”

          So, your new religion is Islam. Got it, thanks!

          • Anonymous

            Basically. But even easier to offend (and more litigious)!

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ELCWV5ANDUEJ5D5PB35FL2LZ6Y Bildo

        “Would you accept a female albino ASIAN midget, if she were in her mid-20′s and had a limp in both legs?”

        Absolutely, and I’m not talking about a pat-down. The story would be worth the revulsion.

    • http://www.cavalierx.com CavalierX

      “According to my smithwiccan beliefs ”

      Smithwiccan? What is that, a gun that shoots magic bullets?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3K3OAEL3VV62QSQWHKAQZRI4FU Coinguy1945

    NEW YORK – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is subjecting innocent Americans to unreasonable searches and detentions that violate the Constitution, according to a lawsuit filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union.

    The ACLU’s lawsuit was filed against Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which has authority over TSA. It was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.

    Attorneys on the case are Wizner, Scott Michelman and Allen Hopper of the ACLU, Art Spitzer of the ACLU National Capital Area and cooperating attorney Alan Gura of Gura and Possessky, P.L.L.C.

    More information about the case, including the ACLU’s complaint and an audio recording of Bierfeldt’s detention and interrogation, is available online at: http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/39922res20090618.html

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ELCWV5ANDUEJ5D5PB35FL2LZ6Y Bildo

      Coinguy, the ACLU is already dropping the lawsuit.

      TSA Fixes Search Policy After ACLU Sues

      “Calling the policy changes a victory for civil liberties, the ACLU has moved to drop its lawsuit, originally filed in June on behalf of a traveler who was illegally detained and harassed by TSA agents at the airport after they discovered he was carrying approximately $4,700 in cash.”

      The lawsuit was about an event that happened back in March, 2009, and has nothing to do with the current sexual assaults and virtual strip searches.

  • Gunny2862

    Oh my, let’s not profile, but.. When I was on active duty, traveling in uniform, on orders, with a ticket paid for by the Gov’t – yes you guessed it – pulled aside for the full screen. WTF? Really?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ELCWV5ANDUEJ5D5PB35FL2LZ6Y Bildo

    This episode makes me sick. Not only did they kick him out of the airport, they are now going to sue him for leaving.They intimidate people into going through the scanners by yelling ” rel=”nofollow”>The thing that makes me angriest is the attitude the TSA has taken over this. Michael Aguilar, the head of the TSA in San Diego stated “By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights.” The hell he did. You cannot give up rights. They are inalienable, and you cannot give them up even if you want to. They can only be taken away by bureaucratic, wannabe-tyrant, pieces of feces like Michael Aguilar, activist judges, and technocratic dictatorial twits like Napolitano.

    • Anonymous

      Of course they’re going to strike back. It looks like Tyner not only refused to play in their little theater, he put on a play of his own, titled ‘TSA Excesses On Youtube’.

      So yeah, they’re humiliated, and they’re gonna try to make him pay.

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  • Hainer

    The ACLU has always supported perversion.

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