The public loves their Obama TV and TSA is his goon squad. Americans traded liberty for a TV click and HD TV. Fox Alwaleed is no better.
Apparently there have been reports of people stealing ash trays.
If the rules made sense, the fact that we were following the rules would not mean much. They would not have proof that we were docile and easily led.
But, if the rules are stupid and illogical -- then, if we followed them anyway -- then our masters would know for sure that we were mere sheep and they could do with us as they will.
And do what?
We've been "awake" since Christmas. We've stopped flying, if we absolutely HAVE to we route through airports that don't have scanners and we wear sweats on the plane to give them little reason to harass us.
We've written letters to the airlines, Congress, no one cares, no one responds.
What do you suggest?
The comments from some of the readers at the link seem to indicate assent and even surprise that the search after disembarking the train was thought a big deal by anyone at all. One must wonder nowadays whether those comments are from actual people or simply the interactive media products of managed accounts of a pro-government contracted firm.
The best way to travel unaccosted by the TSA is to put on Muslim garb.
What if the people refused to be searched and groped? Would they have been arrested?
We’ll be going back to the days when everyone just stayed within their own community and rarely, if ever, ventured much beyond that. Too costly and too much of a hassle.
Maybe that’s what *they* want.
Wait until we have high speed rail and there is a TSA security checkpoint at every train station.
Don’t want to get groped by TSA when you get OFF a flight? Then NEVER, EVER fly back to Atlanta from an international destination! The airport is set up in such a screwy way that people flying back from anywhere in the world go through a more rigorous screening coming home than they did when they left the USA in the first place.
Fourteen TNA agents would be more than the number of passengers on an Amtrak to Savannah. I bet some hobos scattered though...
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” - Amendment 4, The United States Constitution
“There were about 14 agents pulling people inside the building and coralling everyone in a roped area after you got off the train.”
Is this 2011 or 1939? Wake up sheep!