Virginia Vaginae

I couldn't help but be intrigued by the post over at Notions Capital, "Virginia is for Big Brother'.
It is about "trans vaginal probe Governor Bob" McDonnell now pursuing the involuntary external surveillance of Virginians, after his enthusiasm for the internal surveillance of Virginian women against their will.  

It goes without saying, I want Virginia out of Vaginae.  It appears Virginians aren't too happy about 'big brother' surveillance of any kind -- except where it is forced on women.

It struck me there was a certain similarity of shape as well as function to the two pieces of equipment, that they were a kind of mirror image of each other, with one the macrocosm of the other.  They have similar design elements and intentions, despite the marked difference in scale.


Both are intended for government intrusion and right wing erosion of your freedom as a human being in the United States.

 It reinforces for me that the right wing, whichever label they wish to stick on their silly hats or funny costumes, is the party of dictators and authoritarian fascism.  They scream and rant about the sanctity of the word freedom, when what they really seek is the legal power to enforce conformity to a very narrow set of ideas and badly failed ideology on others.  They rant about the 'nanny state', where there is reasonable safety regulation, consistent with the rest of the civilized and developed world, while they instead replace it with a far more hazardous and unregulated kind of big brother police state.  Of the two, the nanny state, which I think is an inaccurate characterization, is far more benign and healthful to society than the thuggish right wing dictatorship of the oligarchs, not government of and by the people.

If you have any doubts, take a look at these four illustrations -- notice the similarity, not only of the basic form - with and without wings/tail section.  Both are intrusive, providing involuntary insertion into ones privacy, both have punitive and destructive qualities.  There is no secret that the real reason that the trans vaginal probe laws have been enacted is to make women feel more violated, and more humiliated, and any little extra pain is just a bonus to the arrogant overreach on the right in their war on women.  It is not ONLY a war on women, but it is definitely a war on people, one targeted demographic at a time.  Well...there is one significant difference between the trans vaginal probe and the predator drone -- when women are the victims of the predator drones, they are innocent, accidental victims.  When they are the victims of the trans vaginal probes, they are the intended Innocent victims.

The upper of the two photos on the left,
can YOU tell if it is the front of a predator
drone, or the end of a trans vaginal probe?