ACLU Continues Efforts To Tie TSA’s Hands

Posted on April 4, 2006

The following can be attributed to Timothy D. Sparapani, an ACLU Legislative Counsel:

“Screening methods that unnecessarily invade privacy, with no proven added benefit to security, provide only a false sense of security and must be rejected. We have a limited number of resources at our disposal, and the government must focus its energy on technologies and methods that provide real security, and not simply the illusion of security. Screening programs like Secure Flight and Registered Traveler invade our privacy and place undue burdens on completely innocent Americans and must be rejected.

“TSA must use effective, minimally intrusive security measures to enhance airport safety that have minimal risk to privacy, maximum benefit to security and reflect the level of risk. Examples of such steps include: increased training for security personnel; heightened screening of airline and airport security personnel; strict control of secured areas of airports; a neutral entity to which passengers can report lax security procedures; luggage matching of all passengers; and the screening of all luggage, carry-on bags and cargo for explosives and weapons. The flying public can and must have better security measures put into place that do not unnecessarily curtail personal privacy and freedom.”

What kind of imaginary world does the ACLU live in where they can blather out minimally intrustive with maximum benefit to security in the same sentence? What they are basically saying in a nutshell is, lets do less with our security!

From 9-11 to the present day, the ACLU has vigorously opposed every governmental attempt to more effectively protect the American people’s security. It sued, for example, to prevent the implementation of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which was passed in November 2001 and included a citizenship requirement for airport screeners. It organized protests against a “discriminatory” Justice Department and INS registration system requiring male “temporary visitors” to the US from 25 Arab and Muslim nations to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. It condemned the FBI’s “discriminatory” plan to count and document every mosque in the US. It protested when FBI and Homeland Security agents recently tried to track down illegal Iraqi immigrants they deemed dangerous. In Illinois, the ACLU actually set up a hotline designed to give free legal advice to undocumented Iraqis facing deportation. Former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser casually dismissed Americans’ concerns about illegal immigration, chalking such sentiments up to a “wave of anti-immigrant hysteria.”read more

If there is an effort to secure and protect Americans the ACLU are consistently there to chip away at it. They have continuously opposed commen sense measures by the TSA. Maybe its just me, but I wouldn’t trust the ACLU’s influence in advising on national security measures. Heck, the ACLU has also called metal detectors in airports an invasion of privacy.

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One Response to “ACLU Continues Efforts To Tie TSA’s Hands”

loboinok on April 4th, 2006 10:50 pm

Jay, I think we may have been wrong about the ACLU.

What other subversive legal organization can boast of the vast range of expertise that the ACLU has attempted to claim?

They know better than SCOTUS what the constitution says and means, they know better than the President and the “Joint Chiefs of Staff” how to conduct war and defensive acts against hostile enemy nations and groups.

They certainly have demonstrated their superior knowledge in what laws our state and national legislators should be passing to better order our society.

Who could know more about how our children should be educated and trained? Since the ACLU has involved itself in our schools and Universities, we have become the envy of the world.

Yeahboy, where ever the ACLU have involved themselves, we have grown and prospered.

Our national security is no different. The fact that we have not had a hijacking post 911 or death and destruction on our subways and other public systems is just a fluke.

The only other thing I can say to the ACLU is… Stupidity is also a gift from God… quit abusing it!