Be a patriot! Uncle Sam Needs Your Genitals!

[scentopine]

Too bad they don't inspect Wall Street and our food supply or off-shore oil rigs with such resolve.

To better quantify the impact of foodborne diseases on health in the United States, we compiled and analyzed information from multiple surveillance systems and other sources. We estimate that foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/mead.htm

Or maybe crack down on gun deaths? 42,000 a year.

The United States leads the world's richest nations in gun deaths -- murders, suicides, and accidental deaths due to guns - according to a study published April 17, 1998 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

The U.S. was first at 14.24 gun deaths per 100,000 people. Two other countries in the Americas came next. Brazil was second with 12.95, followed by Mexico with 12.69.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=6166

Should we require a breathalyzer in every car? Results would be transmitted to FBI and local police and then they would send you a code to start your car. Big fines for disabling the tester. Seems only fair given our intense interest in public safety. (On edit: I am not advocating this - as the federal police state moves more and more into the home, those who are apologizing for these actions would do well to explain why they might oppose this but not oppose genital inspections at airports. Since over history, the mortality outcome of one event (death by snakes on a plane) is infinitesimally small, compared to the other (death by drunk driving). Where are the limits and controls on federal intrusion?)

Drunk driving deaths (11,773) accounted for 32% of the total amount of United States car accident deaths (37,261) in 2008.

http://www.edgarsnyder.com/drunk-driving/statistics.html

I bet if we think about it for 10 seconds we could come up with a list of things more deserving of national priorities than penis, vagina and breast inspections at airports.

When it comes to war and a police state, government is all over that.

Or maybe we should congratulate the government? This is a program in scope and scale like the moon landings and rural electrification and national park system, clean water and sewer. Yep, our government knows how to get things done when it wants to.

Torture, wiretapping, police strip searches without cause, all a credit to our government and now the legacy of Obama.

Support the troops and submit to US Govt. genital inspections.

I should at least get a sticker that says TSA Inspected Meat (with a "best if used by" date) that I can put on my balls.

Amazing.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Well, yeah!

Recommended.

[redirish28]

2. yep. I can just see the new posters now. Instead of uncle Sam pointing he'll have his hand down

ready to grab that crouch area.

[de novo]

3. Terrorism is the sacred cow. We must all bow to the very idea

and give up anything that is asked. For the mere threat of terrorism, we must give up our civil liberties, wage multiple wars that break our economy. We must compromise our social safety nets to pay for the war on terror. The elevation of the fear of terrorism is breaking us.

Terrorism is sacred to both parties.

[scentopine]

4. Yes - in politics as in life, the bullies are the cowards -nt

[global1]

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

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

[saigon68]

7. He is a coward and will lose lots of Votes on this One

When your 11 year old daughter gets her Vulva groped by Brunhilde

Mom isn't going to equate that with SAFETY

ASS HATS ALL

[madmax]

6. Two thumbs up - government can waste a lot of money on

groping but, the FDA releases drugs that are not ready for prime time and we pay for it in both $, sickness and sometimes death. Whataworld! Big Pharma rules.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[scentopine]

8. yes - it is all so amazing. gun control perfectly illustrates the hypocrisy

on the one hand, centrists and right wingers argue government regulations cripple the gun business and right to bear arms "protected" by constitution. So we live with it and accept possible death by gunshot as a minimal risk in a free society. We accept that gun dealers in Texas are arming the slaughter in Mexico and here as well.

On the other hand the constitution apparently says nothing about search and seizure and fair trial and genital inspections.

The public safety concern trolls are really in deep on this one. These are the same centrists and right wingers who apologized for new law that says anyone too close to oil clean up crew will be arrested. They are the same ones who apologized for BP and Obama's handling of the oil spill.

Another argument from the apologist centrists and other right wingers is that the job market is so bad they have to manipulate your genitals for a living. THey have no other choice.

This is also a lie. If it were true, in a time of low unemployment, genital inspector positions would be impossible to fill.

However, if unemployment were 3% there would still be people signing up for a job as government genital inspector.

This is about institutional control and compliance and conditioning. Its how wall street walks and money talks. It is in line with our world record incarceration rate and violent crime rate and our torture policies and indefinite detention policies and our wire tapping policies. Every one of these actions is to keep us under control and afraid to rise up against the injustice perpetrated against us by the ruling class.

When businesses and rich people complain, you'll see the genital inspections halted. CEOs in their private jets subsidized by treasury bailouts don't get their genitals inspected, that's for sure.

The non-rich are supposed to stfu.

[madmax]

9. You said it all. I'm glad there are posters like you

who write what I feel and think. DU is continuing education for some of us. Thanks :toast:

[TBF]

10. The lengths they go to and lies they tell to keep Capitalism afloat is not

surprising when you realize what the billionaires & millionaires get out of it. Why the rest of the country (98%) goes along with it is the baffling part.

[madmax]

11. Dumbed down and kept chasing

their tails just to keep afloat, others are tuned into 'Reality' shows or playing X-Box or whatever computer games are the rage.

Compound this with the state of Public Education and we're a bunch of ignorant people who give little thought to the issues and vote based on propaganda blurbs drowing the public airwaves about a month before elections.


Bottom line there is hardly any civil discourse and education available through the so called media except for Rachel, and a few on radio like Hartmann. She will take an issue and explain that anyone - even those who pay little attention can grasp.

[TBF]

12. That's so true -

I watch my 7 year old as she brings home her homework assignments. It's all rote memorization in preparation for TAKS testing. I'm an older mom (in my mid-40's), and I can remember my teachers encouraging us to learn, question, think critically about topics. Even in classes like History where there were a lot of dates to memorize, we were still writing papers interpreting historical events. Now all I'm seeing is preparation for tests, and teachers being graded by how their students perform on those tests. I guess it does explain a lot ...

[Scurrilous]

13. K & R

:thumbsup: