Backscatters & Future Elections

Which party is in control of Congress and the White House as far-reaching gestapo-like tactics have intruded the lives of American citizens at airports across the country?  Across the board, it's the so-called liberal Democratic Party as they presently control both houses of Congress and the executive branch (the re-taking of the House of Representatives by the Republicans in the elections earlier this month doesn't take effect until early next year).  With no long-term research on the health effects of the new backscatter x-rays being installed at airports, no regard for privacy as images of nude bodies are shown, no viable option for those who would rather not go through these devices other than being harassed and felt upon by security guards or not flying, the new crazed security apparatus has been an abrupt awakening to yet another aspect of the police state that America has become.  America is gradually but surely emulating other authoritarian regimes, past and present.  This is not the Bush-Cheney regime that has implemented these new policies (although they had a hand in developing the machines and of course putting America full-blown on the totalitarian threshold), this is the Obama regime.  The new airport policies are all show, not likely to do anything practical for security, and the worst part is that the authorities know it.  These hazardous backscatters are basically a corporate contract scam to make money for the insiders that will profit from it.  They should do away with this new profit-induced technology, fold up the Gestapo tactics, hire more air marshalls, get some little sniffing dogs for the airports, and more than anything a new, non-interventionist foreign policy.  If Obama and the Democrats keep these policies, this will probably turn out to be something akin to the uncleared blizzard-worn streets in major cities that brought about the electoral downfall of mayors, such as in Seattle recently, and Chicago a generation ago (Mike McGinn and Jane Byrne benefitted, respectively; Sarah Palin might be the beneficiary of these new policies).

[First published on our blog "Commoner" on 11/25/10; revised on 11/26/10.]

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