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The Sexual Assault: You Must Wait To Be Groped

Guest Post by Karl Denninger

Boobus Americanus comes through again.

From Atlanta to Chicago to Phoenix to Alaska – and nearly every place in between – stories are pouring in about long waits and other problems at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints.

Passenger numbers are approaching record numbers in the U.S., which has dovetailed with a 10% reduction of screening personnel. That was expected to be offset by travelers signing up for  the expedited PreCheck screening program, but the number of fliers registering has fallen far short of expectations. All that’s left passengers standing in hours-long lines at a growing number of U.S. airports. The TSA says it’s taking measures to mitigate the woes, but has nonetheless warned a difficult summer may lie ahead before a significant improvement is felt.

Meh.

You fly, which is a choice.  You put up with being sexually assaulted by a government worker who when challenged by a “Red team” misses nearly all the fake bombs and guns they use for challenging them.

But you still put up with it, despite knowing two things:

1. If a terrorist has a real bomb or gun, it will almost-certainly get through and you will get blown up, shot or otherwise killed.

2. If the terrorist is actually intelligent, which seems to be a rare commodity among humans in the first place, he will simply waltz into the line you are putting up with that is two hours long and blow himself up there, killing you dead without ever being screened!

If you had a lick of sense you’d recognize that (1) the security risk is 10,000 times greater when there is a large queue to go through security than there ever was for a terrorist actually on a plane and (2) therejust aren’t very many terrorists willing to die for their putrid “cause” or the TSA waiting area in every airport in America would be a mass of blown up bodies, glass and metal.

But heh, you too can be stupid.  Buy a ticket, get treated like a criminal at the airport before you get on board and then get treated like cattle in the chute once on the plane.

Screw all of you who enable this crap by consenting to it.

You deserve that which you tolerate and invite.