Posted on 12/29/2021 5:18:31 AM PST by MtnClimber
Can we muster the fighting spirit and a willingness to push back against the administrative tyranny that rings round all of modern life?
In 1972, three black men, Melvin Cale, Louis Moore, and Henry D. Jackson, Jr., hijacked Southern Airways Flight 49, demanding $10 million and safe passage to Cuba. The hijacking lasted nearly 30 hours and involved multiple stops throughout the United States, Canada, and eventually, Cuba. In the process of negotiating with the FBI, the hijackers threatened to ram their aircraft, a Douglas DC-9, into the High Flux Isotope Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee if their demands weren’t met.
Until that point, American airlines had resisted installing metal detectors in airports, worried that treating Americans like common criminals to board a plane would wreck their burgeoning industry. But that threat of nuclear attack, and the 130 other hijackings between 1968 and 1972, convinced the government to take a stand at last. In 1973, the FAA used its bureaucratic and administrative powers to make passenger screening mandatory. In 1974, Congress validated the requirement, ignoring passenger rights’ groups that protested the intrusive screening of luggage and persons in order to board aircraft.
There is an important lesson here: Once the modern American state imposes surveillance measures it never relaxes them, even when the threat no longer exists. That’s why, even after American troops have left Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden was killed, and ISIS has been destoyed, Americans are still removing their shoes in airports, treated like would-be terrorists for traveling.
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The bureaucratic state moves in one direction—it always gets bigger, more powerful, and more entrenched. There is never any reversal of state power, even when the threats that seemingly necessitated government interference in the first place are gone.
COVID will follow the same course...
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Let’s hope COVID is the straw that breaks the donkey’s back.
You can't just hope. You have to actively resist, even if that means saying "no" to a fascist dirtbag NYPD and getting arrested.
“There is an important lesson here: Once the modern American state imposes surveillance measures it never relaxes them, even when the threat no longer exists.”
The threat of hijacking still exists.
Excellent point. When confronted by a bully, at a minimum have the courage to say something like “Aren’t you tired of ordering people around? You don’t look like a bully but you sure act like a bully.” Should they say they’re “just following the policy” acknowledge that, but add that in so doing they’re being a bully. (The Left hates the word “bully” so use it frequently when a bully demands something of you.)
The threat of hijacking still exists. True. 911 2001 proves that point. And the threat of Moslem crime still exists.
Um, no.
In this respect the Burger King protesters should have had masked compatriots in the parking lot and, when the police entered en masse, their cars should have been engulfed in flames.
It accomplishes little if walking into the spider’s web means just ‘getting stuck’ and those who are watching aren’t shocked enough to do more than simply look away.
I, for one, am WAY past simple protest.
I predict this will continue and peak during just prior to each election cycle.
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