This Issue Has Nothing Whatsoever to do with Religion

by George Donnelly on November 14, 2010

I’m seeing some minimal talk about the porno-scanner and “Guilty til Groped” issue that posits a conflict between Muslims and Christians. This is off-topic, irrelevant and frankly has the potential to undermine our cause.

Let’s be clear. This issue is not about your religion or your culture. This issue transcends everything and gets right down to the basic humanity that is common to us all. This is about our human privacy and dignity. This is about big unaccountable government getting in between us travelers and those we hire to transport us to our destinations.

Also, we must keep our fear and anger in check. Neither of those emotions can help us now. We must remain calm. Our objections to these invasions of our privacy and attacks on our health and freedom of association must be calm, reasoned and firm. Anger and fear are not compatible with the reasoning we need to prevail.

Finally, let us hold the high moral ground. It is a wise tactic to make fun of the TSA. However, we should not be mean-spirited. TSA employees are at equal or greater risk from these porno-scanners. We can make them our allies.

Let’s meditate on that. Have a great Sunday everyone.

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Connie November 14, 2010 at 11:21 am

From the TSA “TSA and virtually every other nation has used in its risk-based approach to help detect…” Fail.

I have reached the conclusion that there is no intelligence, on many levels, at TSA. There were red flags regarding the Underwear Bomber at many agencies yet he was allowed to purchase a ticket, with cash and board an airplane in spite of his fathers pleas to the CIA in November. Risk, risk, risk. And because those agencies failed, the result means we are required to submit to a body scan or extreme physical pat down, normally reserved for people suspected of a crime done by a sworn in offer of the law. If the TSA cannot accurately access a risk (cash, one way ticket, father talking to the CIA weeks prior to travel) then why should we allow them to violate our bodies?

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Alan November 14, 2010 at 12:10 pm

It’s certainly not a religious issue, but…

If the sheeple submit to the violation of their person in large enough numbers, and the arcane writings in an old book can exempt some people, it would certainly be worth the effort to find other arcane writings in other old books to exempt more people from the TSA overreach…

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ChicagosGiant November 14, 2010 at 7:49 pm

Very true. Well written, George Donnelly – you are able to cut through the pontificating, racial profiling, non-issues and distracting garbage that diverts attention from the main issue. Please keep at this.

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