Posted on 12/25/2010 8:01:40 AM PST by FS11
An Austin Texas Rape victim was handcuffed and drug from the Airport for refusing to be sexually assaulted by TSA.
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“Use the simple approach. Don’t like it, don’t fly.
a) But I gots to travel fer ma job! b) But I gots to see my fambly!”
And what do you recommend for people who are pilots, crew members, or work inside an airport and have to go through these screenings?
How about parents who are bound by court order to send their minor children by plane for visitation?
Sure, boycotting is a good way to oppose business practices you don’t like. But it is an insufficient redress of grievances when constitutional rights are being robbed.
I’m much more fearful of these tin-pot dictators in my own government than I am of any moronic mussie. Obozo and his minions have done far more to harm America than 9-11 ever could.
Nam Vet
18 posted on Saturday, December 25, 2010 10:29:35 AM by Nam Vet
How about parents who are bound by court order to send their minor children by plane for visitation?
Sure, boycotting is a good way to oppose business practices you dont like. But it is an insufficient redress of grievances when constitutional rights are being robbed.
Let's focus on one sentence in particular.
But it is an insufficient redress of grievances when constitutional rights are being robbed.
Ponder, for a moment, what it takes to get a government that robs one of one's constitutional rights to redress the grievances of citizens.
Reflect, please, on what was required in past centuries.
Consider, if you will be so kind, what sacrifices were required of those who sought to obtain the redress of grievances you refer to.
If one is serious about such things, then we have the answer to your questions. Likewise, if one does not value the underlying principles, then one again has one's answers.
I believe that Patrick Henry said something about "Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you", did he not? Smart man, Mr. Henry.
The question now is: What are we going to do about it? It's a question, because I haven't figured it out yet.
There is a very simply solution make a law that congress must live under any law they pass for three years (Except tax reductions) before the rest of us do.
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