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Why the TSA gets to grope us

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

11/19/10

The Transportation Safety Administration is bringing the war home ? and the American people don t like it one bit. Stories of TSA outrages are everywhere, from the 'Don t touch my junk' guy to that photo of a nun in full robes being searched by a TSA thuglet. Talk radio is up in arms, Judge Napolitano is having a conniption, and both liberals and conservatives seem to be uniting around a general consensus that this level of intrusiveness cannot be allowed to stand. Yet what is to be done?

http://tinyurl.com/354hvo9



An invasion of privates

Chicago Tribune
by Steve Chapman

11/18/10

When it comes to protecting against terrorism, this is how things usually go: A danger presents itself. The federal government responds with new rules that erode privacy, treat innocent people as suspicious and blur the distinction between life in a free society and life in a correctional facility. And we all tamely accept the new intrusions, like sheep being shorn. Maybe not this time. The war on terrorism is going to get personal. Very personal...

http://tinyurl.com/24lmoz2



Why we are angry at the TSA

The American Prospect
by Adam Serwer

11/18/10

The Transportation Security Agency s new airport passenger-screening procedures, which force airline passengers to submit to a full-body scan or an invasive frisk, is turning Dick Cheney s biggest fans into latter-day Ben Franklins. 'Hatred of the TSA makes for strange bedfellows, with some conservatives now sounding like card-carrying members of the American Civil Liberties Union.' The amount of freedom Americans have handed over to their government in the years since the 9/11 attacks is difficult to convey...

http://tinyurl.com/2eawp46



Full frontal nudity doesn t make us safer

Campaign For Liberty
by Art Carden

11/18/10

The Republicans control the House of Representatives and are bracing for a long battle over the President s health care proposal. In the spirit of bipartisanship and sanity, I propose that the first thing on the chopping block should be an ineffective organization that wastes money, violates our rights, and encourages us to make decisions that imperil our safety. I am talking about the Transportation Security Administration...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1205


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By Justin Elliott

Mystery of who funded right-wing "radical Islam" campaign deepens.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26861.htm



Is Warped Christianity Threatening Our Democracy?

By Legal Schnauzer

Jeff Sharlet, in the new book C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, shows how the group known as "The Family" influences foreign policy, the military, and other key elements of our government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26865.htm



The Tea Party Moron Complex

By Matt Taibbi

By rallying behind dingbats and morons like Palin and Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party has made anti-intellectualism its rallying cry.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26866.htm

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GOP Pulls the Plug on Bachmann
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