New TSA intimidation teams VIPR hit the road

  We have written before about the TSA's invasion of privacy if you're flying; we've also written about TSA's recent plans to expand their inspections of people and their property and their physical person. This new plan is called VIPR: a snake. Perhaps this is an in-your-face attempt to strike back at the tea party's adopted flag motto of Don't Treat On Me.
  Regardless, the new VIPR strike force is pretty appalling. As we discussed in an earlier post, the TSA's assault on the American citizen's body is awful. For women, it involves insertion of rubber gloved, not necessarily fresh, fingers into the vagina. For men, it involves feeling the "junk," as so eloquently described by an angry traveler.
  Perhaps this is why the government has released today a report that terrorists are considering surgically implanted bombs that won't be easily caught. No one has actually DONE it yet, we are told, but the method is being considered. From the WSJ:

"It's more than aspirational," a U.S. official said. "They're trying to make this happen."

The Department of Homeland Security hasn't warned of a specific plot, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters. But the specter of militants carrying bombs within them will prompt additional security measures at U.S. airports and overseas airports serving U.S. destinations, the Transportation Security Administration said in a written release.

  The Rutherford Institute asks the following questions, suggesting that these things are being done to lull the public into accepting the police state. How many times you have heard airline passengers say, "I don't care what you do to me as long as my plane doesn't blow up?"

The question that must be asked, of course, is who exactly is the TSA trying to target and intimidate? Not would-be terrorists, given that scattershot pat-down stings are unlikely to apprehend or deter terrorists. In light of the fact that average citizens are the ones receiving the brunt of the TSA’s efforts, it stands to reason that we’ve become public enemy number one. We are all suspects. And how does the TSA deal with perceived threats? Its motto, posted at the TSA’s air marshal training center headquarters in the wake of 9/11, is particularly telling: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”

  Dominate. Intimidate. Control. Groups of people who wield a little power have traditionally used this method: IT people, bus drivers, ticket takers, bodyguards. But now that the government is not only using this as a motto, but in fact encouraging the behavior on the part of their employees, citizens need to recognize that this is a vehicle headed toward disaster. 
  Once again, where is all this leading? From an earlier post: 

So what if you're walking along (or driving) minding your own business and someone (read: TSA) stops you and demands to search your person? And what if that person demands to put her or his hand up into your personal area? 

Will that, too, be legal, in the name of public safety? Wouldn't we call that assault?

Where does it stop?

 Wouldn't it be interesting to be in the meeting where Pistole and Napolitano decided that sexual organ inspections were to become the norm during TSA's Orwellian termed enhanced patdowns? Did they giggle when they made this decision? Were they titillated by the prospect? Why weren't they horrified at the decisions they were making?

  And why? Why is our government doing this to us? 
  To quote Instapundit, they told me if I voted for John McCain, we'd be headed toward a totalitarian state.