TSA, "May I touch your junk please?"

Right now - at this very moment - someone is getting on an airplane with a condom full of heroin or cocaine shoved up some hole in their body. That's happening right now - as we speak. And TSA security has no chance of finding it - none at all...unless they want to bust out the KY and latex gloves. But think about this - that balloon could just as easily be filled with C-4 plastic explosive instead of heroin. And once that person is on the plane - he could go in the bathroom - pull out the balloon - and...you can imagine what would happen. And like the drugs - TSA Security has no chance of finding the explosives. That's because those high-tech X-ray scanners that are in airports all around the nation shooting doses of radiation at us and displaying our nude bodies to TSA agents only look at the outside of our bodies. They are not keeping us safe from a terrorist attack. So why the hell are we using them? Because we're scared stupid. We're scared stupid because Bush and Cheney made us that way after 9/11. We got hit pretty bad - but instead of telling Americans that we'll be ok - and we'll come out of this stronger than before - Bush and Cheney freaked out - and so did the rest of the nation. Instead of treating it like the crime it was - and working with our allies to find those who committed it and bring them to justice in the same way Clinton brought Tim McVeign to justice - we went on the warpath. We started a war in Afghanistan that we're still fighting today - we ...