Reply #5: I Have To Think Obama Is Between A Rock And A Hard Place On These TSA Inspections.....

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He's had to support them and now the people are against him and blaming him for this intrusion - that which you call the legacy of Obama.

He had to support them because - if for some reason a plane did go down due to someone successfully smuggling explosives on board - he'd be crucified by the Repugs and the MSM. They would say he didn't do enough to prevent it from happening if he backed away from these inspections now.

Really what we're up against at airports in really the 'legacy of BushCo'. It was on their watch that 9/11 happened that really started this crazy mess at airports. Everytime I'm in the security line at the airport - I curse BushCo.

When you have the likes of a Dick Cheney - you know is just hoping that there be another incident - I suspect if you were the President - you'd have to take every precaution - just so you didn't give a guy like Cheney the satisfaction of being right.

I'm opposed to the groping inspections by the TSA. I'm very leary about the health risk due to radiation in those X-ray scanners. It seems to me that there are better ways to do this.

I heard on the Dick Kay show (Progressive Radio WCPT in Chicago - Back On the Beat) that the Dutch instituted a new scanning technology for their airport security within 11 months. My understanding is that this new machine is being built right here in the U.S. It doesn't employ radiation technology. It scans the person and puts the image of what is seen in the scan on a 'stick figure' type image instead of the x-ray of the person being scanned.

In the U.S. though - the powers at be get mixed up between being 'scanned' and being 'scammed'.

When you have the likes of a Chertoff that is financially tied to these new x-ray airport scanners - we as the people - get scammed.

Imagine how much money Chertoff and his buddies will be making if they get their equipment installed in every airport in the country.

Is this about security or is this about 'profit'. It seems that all these former BushCo personnel have figured out a way of 'scamming' the system. They caused the problem in the first place and now they are making money off their own incompetence.

I guess that's the America way.

K & R