The Issue Isn’t Full Body Scans vs. Genital Groping

As Rush Limbaugh pointed out, the Pravda media’s coverage of TSA agents conducting offensive sexual assaults against free men, women and children is so sensational and uniform as to raise questions as to whether it is being orchestrated as part of a deliberate ‘psy-ops’ program to condition the American people to accept full x-ray body scans. In other words, neither full body scans nor genital groping would normally be acceptable to Americans, so the only way to be sure to get one method accepted was to introduce both at the same time, and then make the genital groping method so offensive and intolerable that full body scans become palatable as the lesser of two evils.

But all of this assumes the American people are and will remain as docile sheep and accept the premise that these are the only two alternatives for greater airport security.

We’ve already written once on this topic, but it cannot be repeated enough: a debate over full body scans vs. genital groping is a phony debate premised entirely on a bogus security narrative—namely, that the only way we can protect against Islamic terrorists is by looking for hidden weapons of the kind terrorists have used in the past.

The best way to protect against Islamic terrorists now and in the future is to look for Islamic terrorists. This is nothing more than common sense. Never, never, never allow your common sense to be defiled by the politically correct drivel that comes out of the mouths of the Beltway elites.

Here is the essence of what our government is doing: if a murder was committed on an airplane by a suspect described by multiple eye-witnesses as a 7’2” green Martian with orange hair who shot the victim with a silver pistol, our government/elitist response when this suspect is on the loose is to order the airport police to look for silver pistols AND to order the airport police specifically NOT to look for 7’2” green Martians with orange hair. This is moral and cultural insanity; it is civilizational suicide.

Put aside as utterly irrelevant the question of whether Islamic terrorists follow an extreme, moderate or milquetoast version of Islam when they try to blow up airplanes. It doesn’t matter. It only matters that they are Islamic terrorists—that one of their many distinguishing characteristics is that they are Muslims. They are almost always male. They are almost always between the ages of 15 and 40. They are almost always students of particular types of imams; they are almost always frequent visitors of certain mosques and certain websites. They are almost always connected geographically—by birth, residence or extended stay—with a handful of countries in the world.

We’ve just identified seven profiling characteristics that anyone with a pulse and the ability to watch a TV knows. That doesn’t even scratch the surface of what law enforcement authorities know about the habits, behaviors and other distinguishing characteristics of those who have actually attempted these acts of terrorism. Put everything together; privatize and train the TSA agents; let them, in Sarah Palin’s words “profile away”, and we will have far better security and at a fraction of the cost of our current system.

It’s time to wake up from what is clearly becoming a national nightmare of political correctness. It is not ‘mean’ to Muslims to profile Islamic terrorists; it is mean to strip-search innocent little boys. Profiling Islamic terrorists is not persecuting Muslims; it is confronting the truth about who is endangering Americans of all faiths. Refusing to pursue common sense profiling is not evidence of nobility of motive; it is evidence of moral idiocy and abject stupidity.

The correct choice is not (a) full body scans or (b) genital groping. It is (c)—neither of the above. It is to rise up and face the fact that WE DO KNOW who and what is threatening America—and then going to work to detect and eradicate that threat. The American people can do this.

Do not let this topic pass the dinner table or the water cooler (or their electronic equivalents) without voicing calm, clear, unwavering common sense: it is time for active, unapologetic profiling to be the strategic and tactical focus of the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.

Paul Gable

November 22, 2010