Yet More Tales of the TSA (Along with the Line of the Day)
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
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Via MSNBC: TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine
The piece contains the following from the individual who suffered through pat-dwon gone awry:
“I am a good American and I want safety for all passengers as much as the next person," Sawyer said. "But if this country is going to sacrifice treating people like human beings in the name of safety, then we have already lost the war.”
Indeed.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I’m just wondering why all the horror stories and accompanying pictures are of whites. I mean…where are the stories and pictures of Muslims refusing TSA’s new security guidelines. Are they happily complying or have they stopped flying en masse? For that matter, I haven’t seen any stories or pictures of any other race except for whites.
And it makes me curious, for one if this is really just a misdirection of America’s attention while something else is going on. Like I said, just wondering.