Why is the agency, whose main job is copping feels of airline passengers and stealing shit from their luggage, doing a sweep of 5,000 square miles of the Ohio River Valley?
TSA has something called the "Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response" teams, or VIPR teams, an appropriate acronym for an agency of snakes. The name itself tells you that the TSA is putting on armed security theatrics, all in the name of supposedly keeping us safe and assuredly reducing the Bill of Rights to something that has the strength of a sheet of one-ply toilet paper. Don't think you can just shut up and drive your car, for the TSA wants to check cars, too.
The other day I was a function and talking to a gent I know. He and I disagree on almost everything-- he thinks Bush was a great president and that Obama is a foreigner, I think Cheney should be executed for war crimes and that Palin is a drooling imbecile. But one thing that we agreed upon is that the post 9-11 security theatrics are becoming less about preventing terrorism and more about promoting a national security/police state.
It is high time that the TSA and the DHS be completely defunded, lest we end this decade with zero personal rights and liberties.
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I know that it is anethema to bring up Nazi Germany.
We see photos of people lining up to have their papers inspected in WW2 Germany and also in post-Stalin Russia, and Americans think "how repressive, how totalitarian, how unlike America"
Take a look at the airport check-in process, and tell me what the difference is.
It seems that internal forces have done more damage to civil rights and free society in the name of 9-11 than OBL could have dreamed of.
If TSA ever tries to search my car, I will end up in jail because I will not allow it.
It is entirely possible, Dave, that you would also end up with the TSA police playing a drum solo on your head with their batons.
Yes, yes it is.
Hopefully someone gets it on video.
What rules mean to the TSA: http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/06/who-watches-the-watchmen.html
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