This Mama Won't Fly

(moved from MamaFae's Knit Whits)

With my husbands impending trip to Florida looming ahead my attention has been drawn to recent blog posts, interviews, and articles regarding the Advanced Imaging Technology scanners now in place at many airports across the country.  These scanners use low ionizing radiation to create what basically amounts to a "naked" image of the person in the scanner use back scatter technology to show any objects under their clothing.  There is grave concern by many including pilot groups about the health risks of repeated exposure to this radiation.
If you object to the scanners and radation you may of course "opt out", but then you have no alternative but to submit to an "enhanced pat down", which many say amounts to an invasive procedure akin to foreplay!

Here's the thing: there is an 80% LESS chance of being blown out of the sky by a terrorists than there is of being killed in a fire.  Let me say that again, you have more to fear from fire than from a terrorist.  Don't believe me, read this. The scare tactics used to create a sense of urgency and need to comply are just that, scare tactics.  We are not any less safe for not taking of our shoes at the security line, nor are we any more safe for being felt up by TSA.

This is over the top. And furthermore I do believe our greatest threat is not from woman with bomb breast implants it is from a very specific sector of people. Those who style themselves as radical Muslims and have declared Jihad against the US and it's people/interests. I'm so very sorry if that offends someone out there who might come across my little corner of the internet and read my blog.  But honestly, who the heck attacked us on 9/11 anyway? Who blew up the USS Cole, or more recently who tried to mail bombs to the US?? Al Qaeda that's who. Why did that do it? Because they hate our way of life, who we are as a people, and believe us to be infidels who much be destroyed.  That's why.

Until we come to terms with this and call a spade a spade our denial will cause this sort of thing to happen.  We will continually be forced to give up our liberties at the point of a gun all because some fanatic decides to blow himself up in the name of Allah and take as many infidels with him as possible. And you know what folks? When we allow our government to expand it's power over our lives, give us no choice but to submit to illegal searches and accept actions that violate the 4th amendment THE TERRORISTS WIN.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

Our politically correct sensibilities are so afraid of offending those who want to kill us, or those who sit quietly in our own country while their affiliation with the terrorists is besmirched that we are willing to submit to this invasive abuse rather than use other more affective tools to keep our airspace safe.

It is true that there are 2 ways in America to get things done. Vote at the ballot box, or vote with your dollar. As of now I am voting with my dollar. I won't fly. I won't give money to an industry that supports the blatant disregard for the 4th amendment nor will I condone a government agency that perpetrates this on it's citizenry.  And I plan on letting anyone who cares to listen know it. I'm unsubscribing from all of my frequent flyer newsletters etc and writing letters to those airlines telling them why.  I encourage you to do the same.  Stand up for your liberties or while you are sitting coach they will be taken away.