Posted on 03/04/2011 6:51:34 AM PST by mattstat
“Sir? Please step over here. You need to be x-rayed.” “What? Get outta my way. Who are you?” said the man. “Sir, please step over to the machine. You have been selected for random scanning,” said the TSA agent. The man did not understand or chose not to and began to walk on. Two other armed agents moved to block the man’s way. “Are we going to have trouble with you, sir? You have been selected for random scanning,” repeated the agent. “What are you talking about? I’m just walking down the sidewalk in front of my apartment. We’re nowhere near an airport, nor even a train station. You can’t just grab innocent people off the sidewalk and bombard them with x-rays,” said the man, increasingly bewildered. “Sir, we are agents of the Transportation Security Administration. The law says we have to protect you in all areas of transportation. Sidewalks are public modes of transportation. We have orders to randomly scan pedestrians. It’s for your protection, sir,” said the agent, bored with offering the same explanation he had issued a hundred times before. “Besides, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about. Do you have your papers with you?” “What if I refuse?” asked the man. “You wouldn’t want to do that, sir,” advised the agent, as the other two agents moved in…
Paranoid fantasy? Not hardly. According to documents retrieved by Freedom (!) of Information Act requests, the Department of Homeland Security (who agents are adorned in blue, and not in some other dark color), as reported in Forbes, “has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile scanning units that can be set up at public events and in train stations, along with mobile x-ray vans capable of scanning pedestrians on city streets.”
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. — Ben “Goddamit” Franklin
TSA agents are at the entrance to the Houston Rodeo when you get off the Light Rail train. Wearing black pants and gray polo style shirts that plainly say TSA.
It has begun.
I am flying at the end of this month. I am having a t-shirt that says, “Don’t touch my junk Bro.”
You want one for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo?
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