What I think is interesting is that we have ‘conservatives’ here defending the government’s shut up and take it mentality to us airline passengers, and saying if you don’t like it, maybe you shouldn’t fly,
but the very same government will not take that same mentality towards illegals who believe they are entitled to benefits and to work here illegally? ie - if you don’t like it here in America, maybe you should just go back to Mexico?
Why do illegals get better treatment from our government than its citizens on airplanes?
And also, friends, if you haven’t figured it out, this is not about improving our security. If it were they wouldn’t let over 90% go through regular (supposedly inferior) screening. They would not give muslim women a pass from intesive screening. They would not use the recent CARGO PLANE INK JET BOMBS as the excuse for the new PASSENGER plane screening.
It is a number of things OTHER than security.
It is about getting regular people used to being searched like a criminal by government authorities. It is you getting used to having your 4th Amendment rights violated for whatever stated reasons.
It is also about damaging the economy by damaging the airlines, probably with the longer term goal of tanking them hard enough government will nationalize them to ‘save them’.
It is also about restricting the ability of the public to travel, and certainly not to be able to travel without fear of being molested and strip searched like a prison inmate. It is about projecting fear into the travelling public. The desired effect government wants is restricted travel - either people will not use airplanes or will use them only when necessary. This helps to further the above goal of damaging the economy and the airlines, to the point they will be nationalized.
It is about putting more of this kind of searching in place in other public modes of travel - subways, large bus depots, train stations.
This current administration is diverting transportation funds to mass transit systems (public transportation) and away from roads and bridges. The fact they are dumping billions into fixed rail systems (high speed rail) as the future of transportation instead of putting that money into making existing roads and bridges better or maintaining them, shows they are trying to funnel the population into using mass transit systems. These are the systems that they want to put all this scanning and searching crap in. Read up on Agenda 21. All this stuff is incrementally working its way there.
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I agree with what you said:
It is a number of things OTHER than security.
It is about getting regular people used to being searched like a criminal by government authorities. It is you getting used to having your 4th Amendment rights violated for whatever stated reasons.
It is also about damaging the economy by damaging the airlines, probably with the longer term goal of tanking them hard enough government will nationalize them to ‘save them’.
It is also about restricting the ability of the public to travel, and certainly not to be able to travel without fear of being molested and strip searched like a prison inmate. It is about projecting fear into the travelling public. The desired effect government wants is restricted travel - either people will not use airplanes or will use them only when necessary. This helps to further the above goal of damaging the economy and the airlines, to the point they will be nationalized.
And would like to add that if the citizens have travel restricted they can’t be activists, protest, march, meet together, etc. as in TEA Party rallies, etc. Makes us separate and controllable. Though this sounds a bit like paranoia, it is better to nip it in the bud and be a bit oversensitive than to be laissez-faire and find out too late that control was afoot. What is that quote? If you don’t stand up and fight when you can then you eventually will have to fight when you have no chance of winning? (Something like that)