Our Rulers excuse the TSA’s entire unconstitutional existence because it supposedly protects us from terrorism. To that end, its pedophiles and perverts strip passengers of every weapon but their fingernails — though the agency also insists that these disarmed sheep are one of its “layers of security” against bad guys. Apparently, the TSA mistakes skyjackers for cowards who slink away in panic if enough passengers shake their fists at them.

All that warrantless groping isn’t meant to discover illegal drugs so that fines and inmates enrich the politically powerful prison-industrial complex, oh, no — though such contraband is exactly why many passengers find themselves under arrest at checkpoints.

So a press-release from “Implant Sciences Corporation…, a high technology supplier of systems and sensors for homeland security markets [sic for ‘fascism’]” is probably a tad more honest than its “partners” at the TSA appreciate: It manufactures a “Quantum Sniffer” — does the whole “Homeland Security” racket sound like dystopian Dr. Seuss doggerel or what? — “a benchtop explosives and narcotics trace detector that uses Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS) to rapidly detect and identify trace amounts of a wide variety of military, commercial, improvised, or homemade explosives and narcotic substances.”

And no, the TSA hasn’t announced plans to sic this gizmo on its employees, however rich the harvest would be.

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