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Monitoring For Radiation:Safety First

Now the MSM is all a dither that we are monitoring Muslim sites for radioactivity, and in the 'focus group' phrase of the day, “it< fill-in-the-blank was done without warrants..”

So, Explain to me how this-

(a typical traffic speed gun)

Is any different than this -

( Typical Civil Defense team testing a Geiger Counter)

Or even this –

(Red Light Camera)

Or those devices that are strategically placed outside the entrance of almost every door of every store in the world, which electronically search my bags and treat every customer like they were a potential shoplifter. All (gasp!) without a warrant!

Some stores even station employees by the door to check and recheck your receipt – twice! All as they say, without a warrant! Or how about the body cavity search they put you through at the airport – again – no warrant. (dont they know me by now? 300,000 airmiles doesnt earn me the right to wear my shoes and beltbuckle?)

Look I don’t like Radar guns as a Californian I consider them to be a tool of the devil but I know why they exist. I also know why Red Light Cameras, the hated spawn of the Radar Gun exists and I know why every electronics store manages to have more security than Los Alamos Nuclear Labs, because without them and without the direct threat of persecution there would be straight up and total anarchy. Geiger Counters, whether they be driven around the neighborhood, flown overhead or on satellites seem like a pretty simple way to a avoid a catastrophe, and left wing spittle aside, doesnt violate anyones rights anymore than driving through a highway patrol Radar beam.

Why should we expect better protection of the goods and services from 'Best Buy' and 'Target' than we do of our neighborhoods, cities and towns?

I hope every overpass in the United States has nuclear material samplers in place and cameras to track any car that sets off the devices, for whatever reason ( gosh officer! - I didnt realize I had 1000 smoke detectors in the trunk, how did that happen?) . I hope every gas station has some form of nuclear resonance machines sitting in the rafters or under the pump stations to check all materials being by shipped by road for radioactivity. I hope every single weigh station and every Highway Patrolman throughout the United States has a Geiger counter and samples every car they stop.

And, no I dont want you to get a warrant either! search away gentleman...

I don’t think they need a warrant to check for something that might end the life of millions of people, because if we allow that to happen, then all of this luxury about "civil rights" will fall away like so much confetti. I think people in the Media are utterly asinine for pushing this political attack that somehow we need a warrant to keep millions from being killed at the hands of a single madman.

But hey, I’m not a Democrat. You see, unlike Democrats, I actually want to live. I sometimes wonder if the Media does.

When you see this picture-

take the time to remind yourself that the civil rights of butchers like Mohammed Atta were perfectly protected while it is occurring and perhaps, just perhaps we would have all been better off had we been less concerned for "Attas rights" and more concerned for the potential loss of life at the hands of these madmen.

For more intelligent discourse on the subject - Visit the Volokh Conspiracy.

and wonder to yourself dear reader, how many of these horrid days since 9/11 have been stopped by the policy of "safety first"...

Posted @ December 23, 2005 06:03 PM | Current Affairs

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