Pedro's Podium: A TSA Diversion?

Monday, November 22, 2010

A TSA Diversion?

I'm not really sure what to make of the changes to the security scans by the TSA. I still believe that the TSA should have never been created. Turning the security of the airports to a Federal agency is not a recipe for success. The current system is a major security risk to travelers. There is too much communications of details that should never be made public. The primary principle of security is secrecy. But then again there has not been enough communication to prepare the traveling public of the basic reasons for these changes.

To try and explain my point of view, consider the disaster that is known as “Black Hawk Down.” The first President Bush order solders into Somalia to distribute food to a starving public. When President Clinton entered office, he expanded that mission. He attempted to overthrow the local warlords. In doing this they made a large number of vertical insertions of troops. They followed the same plan every time. The locals soon learned the pattern and set up an ambush. This was a case where the commanders on the field underestimated the enemy. Many consider this to be that first open warfare was waged on al Qaida.

There is something that the government should learn from this episode. We still face the same enemy and yet we are still telegraphing our every move to the enemy. Personally I believe that the Obama Administration doesn’t see the TSA as more then another way to grow the size of government and pay off the debt they own to labor unions. They are now planning on unionizing TSA. This would once again turn over too much power to union organizers who freely admit to their Marxist beliefs. Why would we continue to allow government worker to support organizations that openly admit to wanting to destroy our form of government and social mores.

This whole episode of these aggressive pat-downs makes me wonder about possible ulterior motives. If you’ve read my blog you should know that I don’t trust our commander and chief. His past actions have done nothing to give me any confidence in his abilities or that his belief system is in sync with the vast majority of Americans. I really don’t believe that he has any good intentions toward the average person and only wants to move us into poverty. That is the ultimate destination of all Socialist systems.

So here we are with one of the largest holidays of the year just a few days away and the TSA suddenly starts acting like Gestapo agents. With the Democrat controlled government doing everything that they could to convince the American people that there was no terrorist threat. They and their lapdog media have downplayed the threat every time that there has been an attack on this country. They stopped calling them terrorist attack, instead the phrase “manmade disaster.” After the Fort Hood attack they tried to say that it had nothing to do with Islamic Terrorism. They tried to blame the “Time Square” attempted bombing on domestic terrorist. With this attitude, it seems only normal that the traveling public does not understand the sudden change.

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Once again the government has shown a total incompetence. They are underestimating our enemies. They are telegraphing our every move to our enemies and not communicating the dangers to the people. We have a government that does not respect the people of the country. This arrogance of power puts our nation in mortal danger and they have no idea of how to protect us. My other fear is that they have no desire to really protect us. I have to go back to the President defining the American people as enemies. This makes me wonder if he is working against the country to provide support to our enemies.

Of course this could be just a giant smoke screen to cover up another power grab by the Administration. Could they be using the uproar in a hope that the news media will fill the air with this story? Could it be that he is preparing another round of appointments while Congress is on vacation? At such a time of distraction it would be easy enough for him to appoint more of his radical Communist friends to very powerful offices. It would not surprise me that he would take advantage of this “crisis” to grab more power before the Congress changes hands. He learned well from his former Chief of Staff. We must keep our eyes on the other hand. Too much power has been moved into the hands of unelected, unaccountable, unionized government bureaucrats that can not be fired. To save our nation we must be vigilant.