Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was given a tour of Ben-Gurion, Israel’s only international airport today. She rejected the possibility of similar security measures here in the United States saying "We share a common goal, which is to protect the people of our countries from terror or other attacks, but there are many differences in the United States system versus Israel. Part of that is driven by sheer size." In the Fox News interview Napolitano continues to site the differing statistics to back up her claim that a similar security system would not work in the United States. Ben-Gurion only sees 11 million travelers annually while the United States has 450 international airports with a combined annual traveler total of 77 million. She also states that Israel only has a population of 7.3 million and spends $57 per traveler while the United States has over 310 million people and spends only $7 per traveler.
Proponents of integrating a system similar to Israel’s say it would eliminate the need for the new controversial security measures which travelers believe invade their privacy and civil liberties. Israel’s security measures involve an interrogation-like interview of each passenger, snipers placed at the entrance to the airport, and measures to find and stop explosives on cargo planes. The Fox News article also stated a frequent traveler to the Ben-Gurion airport he said of his experience with Israeli security, “I'd love to see American security like this.”
I would love the opportunity to ask the Obama Administration, and democrats in congress, how the security of Americans is somehow forgotten on the backburner of their agenda compared to their precious 400,000 word bill that no one read, including the Speaker of the House. How do they debate the following question? The United States population is over 310 million people based on the 2010 census. The following countries that have socialized medicine combined population is somewhere around 354 million: United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, and Denmark. So based on size and cost I would say if we cannot accomplish the same high standards of security for Americans, how does the government expect to accomplish high standards of health care for Americans?
As always there is a double standard. As always there is a backroom secret deal that you hope we do not see or hear. There is a remnant of patriots who see through the tinted glass, and we are not going to take it anymore.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/04/napolitano-israeli-style-security-wont-work/#ixzz1A8KHIaQk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
