Libertarian Party chair Mark Hinkle:
“We’ve reached a point where our government has no qualms about humiliating us.
“Everyone who cares about civil liberties should be outraged that the Obama administration has shown no respect for travelers’ privacy or their right to be free from unreasonable searches. The fact that I want to travel on an airplane does not make me a threat, and it does not allow anyone to conduct a warrantless search under my clothing. The Obama administration apparently agrees with the neoconservative philosophy that there are no limits on government power in the areas of security and terrorism.
“Terrorists win when they provoke our government into overreacting. Apparently they have manipulated our government into chipping away at our rights and privacy. We should not let them get away with it.”
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The Obama administration? Really, you couldn’t help but make this a partisan issue could you?
They’re a political party. That’s probably the best we can get out of them. I agree with you. No sense in making this a partisan issue. It affects us all equally.
Like it or not, these abuses are the Obama Administration’s responsibility. They are ignoring a bipartisan vote of Congress last year against the scanners, and they funded the scanner roll-out in the partisan Stimulus bill that had almost no Republican support.
This just in. Guess who has a 37% interest in these invasive body scanners? George Soros. Anyone still think this is a mere coincidence and not a problem?