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You Are No Longer Free To Move About the Country
Reason.com ^ | December 1, 2010 | Radley Balko

Posted on 12/01/2010 10:10:08 PM PST by crosstimbers

Janet Napolitano said last month that we should expect to soon see tighter restrictions at bus, train, and marine transportation centers, too. Here's a report about TSA, Border Patrol, and local police setting up a checkpoint at a Greyhound station in Tampa. Note how quickly preventing a possible terrorist attack expands to include catching illegal immigrants, and preventing drug and what sounds like "cash smuggling." (It's hard to tell from the audio.) Note also the complete and utter reverence the local news report bestows on these government agencies, who after all are merely "teaming up to keep your family safe."

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: fascism; tsa; tsapervs
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1 posted on 12/01/2010 10:10:12 PM PST by crosstimbers
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To: crosstimbers

PAPERS!!!


2 posted on 12/01/2010 10:11:33 PM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: crosstimbers

When will we be issued our gold star armbands?


3 posted on 12/01/2010 10:16:15 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: crosstimbers

...but if I had just come across the border from Mexico I’d be able to go wherever I darned well pleased, right?


4 posted on 12/01/2010 10:17:19 PM PST by madison10
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To: crosstimbers

Report: Homeland Security Compiling TSA Enemies List

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/constitution/5354-report-homeland-security-compiling-tsa-enemies-list


5 posted on 12/01/2010 10:21:15 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: crosstimbers
we are still free to commit random acts of violence upon specific peoples whenever and wherever.
6 posted on 12/01/2010 10:23:06 PM PST by mmercier (voodoo too)
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To: crosstimbers
local police setting up a checkpoint at a Greyhound station

I still don't understand why a terrorist would need to be on the bus in order to destroy it. I guess a total inability to think is a requirement for working for TSA.

7 posted on 12/01/2010 10:26:55 PM PST by Greysard
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To: crosstimbers

Just preparing you for the new “Show me your papers” Marxist police state.
Muzies need not worry. Only WASP will be targeted.


8 posted on 12/01/2010 10:32:39 PM PST by AlexW
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To: crosstimbers

My brother in law opted to drive to our town for Thanksgiving instead of flying like he usually does because of all this airport crap.


9 posted on 12/01/2010 10:38:57 PM PST by Califreak (November 2008 proved that Idiocracy isn't just a movie anymore)
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To: The Comedian

Is this worth pinging your CWII list?


10 posted on 12/01/2010 10:48:28 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: AlexW
Muzies need not worry. Only WASP will be targeted.

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The Socialists know what they are doing. And many of us know what the Left is about. But what Republican politician will announce it? Liberalism and its thug tactics are on full display for the entire world to see. Obama's police state will pretty much destroy our American way of life, the economy, and liberty before the 2012 election. His goal is to control every aspect of life, food, credit, and the pursuit of happiness.

Some of Obama's advisers are telling him to ignore congress, and rule by decree. And to a great extent, he could, if he is so inclined. This is terribly, terribly wrong.

Think of how many more people the TSA will have to hire to pat down and scan people at train and bus stations, malls, grocery stores, sports competitions, churches and synagogues (but not mosques), and anywhere else large numbers of people congregate.

How many more freedoms will Zer0 usurp.

When the foreign occupier employed the phrase 'fundamentally transforming America' two years ago, that's precisely what he meant. Zer0 has no intention of going quietly.

QUEEN-12sm

11 posted on 12/01/2010 11:05:01 PM PST by BobP (hat about the pensions and)
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To: crosstimbers

Ihre papieren bitte...


12 posted on 12/02/2010 12:41:36 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: crosstimbers
I could not believe what I heard come out of Napolitano's mouth when the enhanced pat-downs began. She was asked about x-raying the contents of a plane's cargo hold, and she said that cargo's were impossible to check.

Now, really, what more could she have said to advertise to terrorists that there still is one way they could take down a plane?

What a $#!+head!

13 posted on 12/02/2010 12:42:42 AM PST by Slyfox
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Many forget that 911 occurred because one of the witnesses in the earlier bombing suggested, while tesifying, that a more effective way to take down the WTC would be to fly a plane into it.


14 posted on 12/02/2010 2:41:58 AM PST by at bay (My father was born with 28 ounces of flesh in 1924 then went on to become Mr. (Glenn) Holland.)
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To: at bay

That same idea was used in a Tom Clancy novel to destroy the US Capitol Building.


15 posted on 12/02/2010 2:45:53 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Califreak
My brother in law opted to drive to our town for Thanksgiving instead of flying like he usually does because of all this airport crap.

I think that'll work for a while, but in the long run, if we don't get the groping and scanning stopped, it will be on streetcorners and roadsides.

Of course, once people start digging through your stuff, excuses will abound for stealing anything of value, either through stealth or even right in front of you.

The threat of arrest and detention will be used to squelch protest (especially if the 'random' shakedowns target vehicles with out-of-state plates). It will be the classic small-town speed trap gone amok.

16 posted on 12/02/2010 2:50:09 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: crosstimbers

I wonder if the Legal Citizens of this Country could set up road blocks and pat downs to control the free flow of vermin in and out of DC.


17 posted on 12/02/2010 3:12:31 AM PST by seemoAR
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To: crosstimbers

Did anyone else notice when Southwest Airlines dropped “you are now free to move about the country” as their jingle?


18 posted on 12/02/2010 3:18:06 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Quix; Whenifhow; houeto; null and void; Squantos; xrmusn; bronxville; Screaming_Gerbil; ...
Feel-free-to-move-about-the-cattle-car ping.

(thanks to OneWingedShark)

"Civil War II" ping.

Increasing volume ping list monitoring government and leftist agitation and instigation of violence.

FReepmail me if you want on or off The Comedian's "Civil War II" ping list...


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

19 posted on 12/02/2010 5:21:32 AM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: crosstimbers

This is America? Yea whatever. Not the one I used to know. I don’t believe for one second this is all about terrorists. It’s about a jackboot at your throat and submission.


20 posted on 12/02/2010 5:32:33 AM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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