Friday, June 08, 2012

You might want to pick better examples

In a way this is a depressing reflection of IOKIYAR writ large, or at least the undoing of even the veneer of equality:

If the Transportation Security Administration wants to fix its poor public image, it might want to stop patting down recognizable passengers such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

"There are certain people that are just so well-known that you've just got to use your common sense," said Rep.
Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Transportation Subcommittee.
The rest of you, however, be glad you don't get probed.

First of all, the people of various and sundry other nations from Cambodia to Iraq might strongly dispute whether Rumsfeld or Kissinger are dangerous.  Together they've killed a fuck load more innocent civilians than all of Al Qaeda put together.

Second, if you and I have to be inconvenienced, fuck it so do celebrities.

3 comments:

jimmiraybob said...

"...former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger."

I assume that chloroforming and shipping to The Hague would also be considered excessive.

pansypoo said...

if only CEO's didn't have planes.

Montag said...

So, I see that the Repugs have finally admitted that war criminals are morally superior to the rest of us.

Thanks for the clarification.