{"id":2451,"date":"2010-11-24T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2010-11-24T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T13:10:54","slug":"government_officials_need_to_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Government Officials Need To Be Subject To The Same Laws As The Rest Of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20101124\/D9JM7I381.html\">My Way<\/a>&nbsp;reported yesterday that cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.&nbsp; Pilots and flight attendants are also exempt from the procedures.&nbsp; How about also exempting 70-year-old grandmothers and children under the age of 10?<\/p>\n<p>The horror stories coming out about these new procedures are coming fast and furious&#8211;from women chosen because of their body types, to small children being touched inappropriately, to a man whose colostomy bag was broken during the patdown.&nbsp; The horror stories, combined with the fact that the people who may be a danger are being ignored while grandmothers and young women and children are being routinely groped, are reason enough to find a different way to do this.&nbsp; There are serious questions as to whether these searches are constitutional, and I hope there will be some class action suits coming quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The current screening procedure is not going to make us any safer&#8211;there are doubts as to whether&nbsp;the new procedures&nbsp;would&nbsp;have discovered the underwear bomber or anyone else carrying a small amount of explosive powder.&nbsp; If the fear is that an explosive device would be brought on a plane, just let the bomb-sniffing dogs roam freely through our airports, or profile people with certain VISA stamps on their passports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Way&nbsp;reported yesterday that cabinet secretaries, top congressional leaders and an exclusive group of senior U.S. officials are exempt from toughened new airport screening procedures when they fly commercially with government-approved federal security details.&nbsp; Pilots and flight attendants are also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2451\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}