What the Frak Is the TSA Doing?

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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