Left Holding the Bag
September 16, 2004
The Mineta Mafiosi are alive and well. Dozens of TSA personnel at airports across the country have been arrested for crimes including: tampering with public records in the first degree; falsifying business records in the first degree; larceny; official misconduct and criminal possession of stolen property. In plain English, they are pilfering your luggage. The panty sniffing and cross-dressing charges are pending.
Situation normal in Mineta’s Department of Transportation. If you look like (and actually are) a 90-year-old Caucasian grandmother from Indiana…you will be intimidated, fondled and never called back for a second date. For those lucky enough to look like swarthy Islamic terrorists…the red carpet of untouchability will be rolled out. If you are actually a swarthy Islamic terrorist…Mineta’s groupies will probably bump you up to First Class.
Another TSA hobbyhorse is the Registered Traveler Pilot Program. As the TSA explains it, the program is, “…a continued effort to…ease screening for thousands of travelers”. Not that a program requiring travelers to undergo fingerprint and eye scans isn’t weird enough…but, this program is also limited to “elite frequent fliers”. And I thought that Article IV of the Constitution guaranteed all Americans unencumbered travel between states.
Let’s translate this. If you are a hard working middle class American traveling to your daughter’s college graduation (for which you mortgaged your house)…get in line, take off your shoes and prepare to be groped. If, however, you are a member of Congress…welcome aboard. Maybe Mineta views this as payback to all you working middle class slobs who pay the taxes.
Remember when Mineta was a Congressman? He was hell-bent in seeking reparation payments for Japanese Americans interred during World War II. He was also equally hell-bent in blocking those same payments for a like number of European Americans similarly interred. Since Mineta will probably continue to despise Americans on an indefinite basis, maybe we should take a different approach to coping with the New Normal.
There’s the Democratic approach presently epitomized by John Kerry. Then there’s the Republican approach personified by W. And…there is always the option of totally rejecting the New Normal…lock, stock and turban.
Kerry would have us take the “International” approach. Maybe he could call for “peace talks” in Paris. Why not…while Americans were dying in the jungles, Kerry made a May 1970 trip to Paris for tea and treason with Madam Nguyen Thi Binh, the Vietcong’s Foreign Minister. Perhaps he (and his self-proclaimed African American wife) could meet bin Laden at a trendy café and offer al Qaeda “economic benefits” in return for a “cease-fire”. Hell, it worked with Clinton and North Korea—didn’t it?
Then again, we could take the W approach. Keep fighting this war with one hand tied behind our backs. After all, we don’t want the “International” community, peace-loving Muslims and liberals accusing America of slaughtering baby seals if we fought this war like a…like a war! So, let’s keep wasting lives at a maximum cost and inconvenience to the American public. And the best part is that in another 10 years, we won’t have a Constitution left worth defending. That should make Parisians and liberals alike very giddy.
Or, God forbid, we grow up and admit that America is at war. Not some Vietnam thing happening “over there”, but a war that strikes us in our beds and threatens our way of life. Boy was that stupid. I should have said, “A war that struck us in our beds and destroyed our way of life. A war that many of our “allies” hope will reduce this nation’s people to the pathos of what was formerly known as Europe.
Not that anybody can blame W. If he fights the war, the liberals call him an idiot. If he doesn’t fight the war, the liberals call him an idiot. The real idiots are the liberals who care more about their agenda than they do about the people of the U.S., the Constitution of the U.S. and...the U.S. In the liberal mind, the sooner you can destroy the fabric of American life, the sooner you can knit the fabric of “International” life. As if the Muslim terrorists are going to ratify the platform of the liberal agenda…abortion, pornography and same-sex marriage.
If we want Norman Mineta out of our undies, our only choice is to fight and win the war. And I mean fight. Real Americans are covered with hives at the thought of a continually eroding American way of life. Real Americans can’t stomach the thought of perpetually living in fear because we might offend the very people who are trying to destroy us. What are we going to do…turn the Middle East into a giant welfare state whose needs are only commensurate with its condemnation and vile hatred of the U.S.? We are well on our way of doing that today in Palestine and Iraq.
There are only two reasons a dog doesn’t bite you. It either has common sense and it loves you or it has common sense and it fears you. It’s fairly obvious that our peace-loving terrorist friends don’t love us, nor do they fear us. Even if we A-bombed Israel they still wouldn’t like us (let alone love us) and we sure as hell aren’t giving them a reason to fear us. I doubt that our terrorist friends have much native appreciation for politically correct warfare…unless it’s the U.S. fighting them in a politically correct farce.
Let’s either go to Paris and surrender or fight this war. Of course you could always just stand in line at any American airport…left holding your empty bag after Mineta’s Mafiosi steal your unmentionables.
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