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I am sure by now everyone who spends even a little time online has seen  the “Don’t touch my junk” video. This was in reference to airline traveler John Tyner protesting aggressive groping during the new “Enhanced Pat Downs” of the TSA. President Bush used “Enhanced Interrogation” against terrorists whilst trying to defend the U.S. President Obama uses “Enhanced Pat Downs” against U.S. citizens for what reason ?

I began thinking that with all these protests and outrage there must be a better method the TSA can use to guarantee flier safety. To be sure being harassed by TSA and exposed to either backscatter or millimeter wave technology could easily be replaced by a friendly TSA representative using a handheld metal detector and a Beagle trained to sniff out explosives. This is a method that would not cause people to be irradiated or fondled. Some may say that people with dog allergies would be violated. Although you have to admit that a few seconds of sneezing is better than being exposed to a level of radiation that is questionable or to having a complete stranger grope your privates. No a courteous TSA agent and an inquisitive beagle would be far less invasive, stressful and threatening then these new “Enhanced Pat Downs”. So with a smiling face and a small dog air travelers would have no fear, no danger, no threat. Why then are the more aggressive measures being used instead, when there are hundreds of ways to do it that are better, faster and less expensive. Of course after witnessing how the Obama administration reacted to the outrage and protests of his health care program it is easy to see that this administration cares nothing about the opinions of “the people”. They have an agenda and they will stick to it no matter how far they have to raise taxes.

I started asking questions.

Is the US less safe with Obama in charge rather than Bush ? Is there a new threat out there which requires the suddenly enhanced, aggressive and invasive TSA techniques ? The answer is, No. There appears to be no greater threat to America today than there was in 2008.

What then, is the reasoning for the “Enhanced Pat Downs” ? To answer that we have to ask what the gain will be.

What is the benefit of an “Enhanced Pat Down” ? Nothing. The TSA is giving people the option of being irradiated or groped.

What is the negative of new TSA aggression ? People stop flying.

What is the result of people no longer flying ? People drive their own cars take the bus or the train.

Will people used to flying switch to taking the bus ? Not without slitting their wrists.

Will people used to the conveniences of flying drive their own cars ? Not likely, they are too lazy.

Passengers currently have the ready choice to fly or take a train but they choose to fly. If flying suddenly becomes too inconvenient they will fall back on rail. AHA. Obama is currently pushing over $10 billion tax payer dollars to develop high speed rail. A government owned entity that can not succeed if it faces competition from more efficient, faster and privately owned entities like airlines

If people are too angry to fly due to TSA aggressiveness it pushes them off aircraft and onto Obama’s high speed rail scheme.

The “Enhanced Pat Downs” of the TSA (motto:” We put the frisky in frisking”) are nothing more than a scheme by the Obama administration to alienate air travelers and create train riders to justify his high speed rail expenditures.

If this conspiracy succeeds the Obama administration will win two heinous battles against it’s citizens. First, the people who continue to fly and subjugate themselves to these “Enhanced Pat Downs” will become mindless sheep willing to sacrifice all dignity and honor for the illusion of security and as such are easily controlled. They will be mindless automatons who do whatever government agencies tell them to do. Second, we will have high speed rail forced down our throats at grossly inflated government construction costs raising taxes far beyond what most people are willing to pay. Either way the only losers are tax payers. This doesn’t even include the millions of dollars that will be lost by share holders of airline industry stocks.

You heard it here first.

DISCLAIMER: I have written about rail travel previously. I love rail travel. I do believe however, that rail travel should be run, not by the government but by corporations, especially as AMTRAK continuously fails to meet the needs of riders whilst losing about $2.5 billion per year. Plus the cost for needed improvements should be done with the intent to be profitable and not just another drain on US taxpayers wallets. Rail travel should be a competitive alternative to air travel and not enforced due to questionable governmental regulations.