Dakota Beacon

The Panty Bomber might not have succeeded in blowing up the Christmas Day flight in Detroit last year, but terrorists can take encouragement in that the seeds planted last winter are finally blossoming in full flower this Thanksgiving holiday at our airports.  What else are they to think?  We are being required to surrender our persons, our dignity and what little remains of our self-respect to the junior agents of Jihad: our own TSA thugs and perverts, the ones on our payroll.

Now, we’ve heard enough empty blather about “safety” of our citizens being paramount.  This is a red herring if we’ve ever smelled one.  If you subscribe to this fantasy you’ve probably already signed the deal on the Brooklyn Bridge.  The “safety and security” argument is designed to shut down discussion.  It’s supposed to be the last word.  That, however, requires that we forget all about that person over there – the one in the burqa.  CAIR has made it perfectly clear that anyone dressed in a sheet is off limits and off the hook security-wise.  Obviously if we are not profiling for security we’re doing absolutely nothing for security.

Today we heard that an American citizen refused to subject himself to the “full-Monty” X-ray scanner and “opted” (and I use the word advisedly) instead for the physical groping.  Apparently without any interference with the gropers’ process or any disturbance of the peace, said innocent American citizen, taken “behind the screen” proceeded to disrobe as ordered, but took out his cell phone and began recording his ordeal.  The TSA gropers confiscated the phone, slapped the handcuffs on him and unceremoniously paraded the poor wretch, in his underwear, through the airport terminal, for whatever discipline they felt he merited.   I wonder how many potential sheet-clad terrorists or others deemed immune due to “reverse profiling” (i.e., Muslim youths and those with Arab accents or attire), watched and chuckled at this American taxpayer’s humiliation at the hands of his own employees.

Now, make no mistake.  Had the Panty Bomber been in line this Thanksgiving he would not have been subjected to this outrage.  Never mind that he was on a “no-fly” list or that his own father had attempted to stop him by warning us.  CAIR and other Muslim mouthpieces and sympathizers would never have permitted this.  Such crude behavior by an American security guard at an airport would have ignited an international incident and we’d have had to hear Barack Hussein Obama’s monotone and abject apology on behalf of our country once again.  As a foreigner here, and from the exalted realms of Yemen this man would have been waived through – you know it and so do I.    So none of this humiliation to which free Americans are ordered to submit would have applied there and thus would not have “protected” that flight.   Because in all matters of etiquette we must defer to CAIR and their fellow travelers, right?  And THEIR foreign customs (unlike fundamental American rights established by our Constitution) are more important than our “airport security”.   Face it: the only reason we caught the Panty Bomber is that he set his own clothes on fire.  The ONLY reason.  None of this airport security-TSA nonsense would have stopped him.

So, if this is not about protecting Americans from terrorist attacks, what is it really about?  To figure that out let’s look at the consequences of this policy.  

One:  Americans are being humiliated.  This is an end in itself.  It is giving Jihadists a good laugh and a high almost as good as footage of a beheading in Baghdad.  As anyone knows who deals with negotiations or foreign relations, the perceived dignity of the other party is of great significance.  This is why the North Koreans had low chairs for Americans to sit at around the peace table.  Humiliation is a powerful tool in the subjugation of others.  

Two:  it is about distraction.  As long as soft-headed wimps across the country, chiefly people who aren’t planning air travel soon, find it less stressful to “go along to get along” and want to believe that this kind of groping and leering at nude images of American passengers will “make the world a safer place” we’ll keep hearing that it’s true.  And while we’re feeling up the crotches of Christian nuns and little children we won’t notice who else is ushered through without inspection.  It has been a while since I have heard about a nun blowing up a plane or wearing a suicide bomb into a crowded marketplace, but I do recall several recent instances of Muslim women in burqas and other exotically termed sheets and fabrics doing just that.  

Three: it is about surrendering even our physical bodies over to agents of bureaucracy.  What can we withhold from these “agents”? 

Gentlemen are expected to stand by while their wives, mothers and daughters are groped by strangers, just so they can go and visit Grandma.  We are being physically violated  by our own government.  Parents, who have carefully taught their children about “good” and “bad” touching watch as this is thrown over by some guy in a uniform.  The uniforms are a huge part of this.  It is intimidation of the most fundamental kind.  Totalitarians throughout history have been cognizant of the value of this basic corporeal subjugation and the psychological debasement that follows with it.

Four:  it provides employment, money and power to these Cossacks.  A woman recently called Mark Steyn as he filled in for Rush Limbaugh, to stick up for the TSA agents.  She said her husband was one of them and he was “just doing his job and trying to make America safer”.  She indicated he hated doing this.  Hmm. . . where else have we heard this kind of disclaimer?  Didn’t a lot of Nazis say they were just following orders too?  They probably thought that they were doing a service as well, cleansing their country of  “Jewish contamination”.  This woman’s husband surely must know better than to think any of the orders he obeys in his groping and scanning have a payoff in added security.   He has been with TSA for eight years.  He must like the work. Or the money.   He doesn’t need US on his side.  

This might be that twilight hour for America – that hour in which we put our executives and our students, our elderly veterans, our children, our spouses and grandmothers  through a course meant to shame and mortify them and meant to act as our “meat tenderizer” to soften us up and prepare us for what is to come.  Very recently I had the opportunity to watch the Nuremberg Trials.  We saw the Jewish people of Germany and Poland herded into camps and one of the worst aspects of it was that they were robbed of their dignity and personhood.  They were intimidated and violated before they were finally exterminated.  Children were forced to watch their elders, and parents their own children, frightened and humiliated.

What should we, free, thinking, patriotic Americans, be doing about this outrageous policy?  First, we must insist on our safety being secured by profiling.  This is what works.  Instead of listening to the cotton-stuffed head of Janet Incompetano, we should be learning at the feet of the Israeli government.  They, surrounded by a world of hostile Jihadists, and the object of their venom, have survived because they have acted logically and prudently.  They take the threat seriously and apparently there is no faction within their government which is seeking to undermine the national interest.  I submit to you, the reader, that in America we do have such forces at work and their efforts are manifest in such absurdities as this current TSA policy.  Israelis have courageously determined to survive and even to prosper.  They care about the future of their people.  They are much less concerned whether Jihadists like their customs and their policies.  They have put their priorities in order.  This is first of all what America must do.  If we have a president who is unwilling to help us survive, or, more to the point, seems to will that we do not, we must look to our newly elected government to take charge.  We need to demand that THEY call into question government officials whose decisions and policies are inimical to our survival and to our national interest and character.  We need a housecleaning.

We also need to step back a moment. Why is it always we who are worried about whether someone else is “offended”?  I don’t know about you, but watching children and nuns groped in public offends ME. Americans have a right to be offended too.  I am offended by the superior attitude on display by the mob of imams and self-righteous Muslim bigots we must see and hear every day.  This is America.  We are the Americans.  We really don’t need to worry about someone ELSE being offended.   Who among these foreign persons care if we find them offensive?  Americans have the right and even a duty to express their feeling of being offended.  Many Muslim customs are offensive to me.  Do they offend you?  Then say so.  If this is enough to drive them from our shores, GREAT!  No one here wishes to detain them.

And my darker side would be greatly amused if the next time we see a picture of an American airport terminal we see not a few burqas, but a sea of burqas – nothing BUT burqas - on every man, woman and child who intends to fly somewhere to visit their granny.  If you, like me, are a Richard Greene fan you will remember the finale of  Captain Scarlet.  I really don’t know why I thought it so unlikely a solution when I saw the movie the first time.  Tea party folks – start ordering your burqas now.  The supply might be insufficient! I see some marketing opportunities here and a cottage industry of burqa making - the capitalist system at its very best!



Sally Morris is a member of Americans for Constitutional Government