Sounds like you were getting scammed.
If you are not moving money overseas, do not be surprised when capital controls take that option away from you.
If you do not have a plan for how to travel when your passport is denied (and even the IRS can do that), do not be surprised when your freedom of movement is take from you.
What is happening to my country?
As well as every force that receives any kind of federal funding, if they want to keep it.
I have learned it is pointless to comment on what flying is and why the TSA makes sense (although it made more sense when it was private and some of the new rules are dumber than dumb).
But my favorites are the worm-eaters who say “I just won’t fly.”
I just LMAO when I see how people let the terrorists and the gummit control their lives. But I do feel sad that people are so easily manipulated.
Cascading screening (which is what is described here) is the BEST security system. It is what El Al has been doing for 3 or 4 decades and what we should be doing instead of strip searching 6 year old girls and 80 year old grandmothers.
But we are getting there — just REALLY slowly. I am a Global Entry/Trusted Traveler flyer and can usually skip the X-ray and taking shoes off and laptops out.
This article should be a wake up call. I have often said, “it’s something everyday” from these people.
Will we wake up one morning and find out we have let things go too far?
What WOULD we do without the internet and the ability to contact each other?
Something to think about for sure.
In the 1940’s in Germany it was called the SS.. Seems to me that no one ever learns from the lessons of the past... the people in the streets in Germany fell for the same line of propganda and B/S that the ones that have fallen for the same crap spouted by the W/H and its left wing enablers..
Essentially, they profile likely drug mules, approach, identify themselves, and ask your permission to inspect ID and carry on bags.
The correct answer is, “No thank you,” then, just return to your newspaper or laptop.
Instead, thousands of couriers nearly puked on the floor, and just went along with the search, and went straight to jail.
In Florida, drug cars routinely made the Miami to New York run on I-95 between midnight and dawn.
Typically, one black male driving, newer model large car, going exactly the speed limit or slightly below.
That's actually where some of the most important racial profiling cases originated.
The cops would claim “weaving” or “tail light out” or “driving to slow.”
They would stop the driver, inspect ID and car papers, then ask permission to look in the trunk or search the car.
Once again, dozens of couriers agreed, and then went straight to jail.
All the drug professionals know how to handle the issue now.
It's only the rookies and the drug addled who get popped now.
Dear Americans, We Are Surrounded
All I can say is “NUTS!”
And try to go Galt as fast as I can.