[coloradan]

This administration wants to fine you, and possibly charge you with a federal crime if you try to stop its agents from fondling your junk, but it has sued in court to prevent enforcement of a law that would enable police to ask passengers in a car for evidence that they are legally here. What else is there to say?

[Elle Bee]

"Did you really think we want those laws observed? said Dr. Ferris. We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?

But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with." (’Atlas Shrugged’ 1957)

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[Species8472]

The TSA would quickly disappear if we could mandate that they check immigration status along with your boarding pass.

[kevslisababy]

I’ve been emailing about 14 senators a day for the past week or so (I know, they probably don’t even look at them but I feel better).

I remind them that the officers in the Third Reich used “only following orders” as their defense, just as the TSA employees are now. In the end their actions are/were still a crime.