TSA Silences Pilot For Telling The Truth

IBD Editorials ^ | December 27. 2010 | Staff

[Sarajevo]

The TSA, at the behest of the federal government, has actively been stripping us of our rights. They deserve what they get.

[Bulwyf]

I’m in Alberta, but I wouldn’t day Canada is a safe haven from this kind of thing. Free speech is gone, and the amount of social programs etc we have is astounding and we’re going broke.

There is no safe haven anymore, I still stand by my evaluation in early 08, when I said US/Canada is the last stand for “freedom” what little there was left, if it fails here, all is lost.

[danielmryan]

Over in the libertarian part of the world, Bill Anderson has speculated that Assange is being punished for having a hand in Climategate.

Lost in all of the shouting about Wikileaks and the arrest of Julian Assange as the imprisonment-torture of Bradley Manning is the fact that a lot of people in power want to pay back Assange for his role in releasing the so-called Climategate emails. These emails detailed how “climate scientists” manipulated data, bullied those who disagreed with their “hockey stick” Algorean world temperature chart, and suppressed good science that contradicted their own work.

Even though the NY Times and other major news outlets ignored these emails (or claimed that they were nothing but irrelevant “noise” and not worth any public discussion), nonetheless the emails still were a blow to the outright authoritarian attempts by governments to further control people. A lot of people in power have been unhappy with Wikileaks for letting the truth spill out regarding “climate change,” and have looked for a way to go after those who have exposed the lies.

Myself, I didn't know that Wikileaks had a hand in releasing the Climategate documents but I can see the reasoning behind Anderson's point.

[danielmryan]

You're lucky in that you have dual citizenship. Allow me to help with a quick upside/downside list:

• Canada is known for having socialized medicine. That can be a plus or a minus, depending upon how you view the matter. Obamacare is eroding the differential between the States and Canada.
• Canada didn't go through the financial crisis. The downside is more prudent (or stingier) loan policies by the banks. In Canada, banks are much larger and far fewer.
• Mortgage interest is not deductable, which has helped keep a lid on any real-estate bubble. On the other hand, any capital gains on your "principal residence" are tax free. An old duffer who bought a $25,000 property in 1969 and unloaded it for $1.8 million in 2008 got all of it tax-free. N.B.: There's only one principal residence per family unit.
• "Civilization" in Canada is more concentrated than in the States. As a result, there are a lot more open areas where the government isn't much at - but neither are jobs, with the exception of boom regions, unless you've been born and raised there. As a result, big-city folk tend to put up with more intrusive local government than would otherwise be the case in the States.
• Elabourating on the last point: the Alberta oil patch is one of those boom regions. If you can work with your hands, you can find a job very easily. The downside is that real estate - even rental real estate - is expensive and hard to find. If you go to a Red Deer homeless shelter - a flophouse - you'll find more than a few out-of-towners with high-paying oil patch jobs living there. They can't find anywhere else to live (or else they're saving up for a return home.) This rule of thumb should apply: if real estate is scarce in a town, there are jobs for newcomers. If there's a lot of "For Sale" signs in a town, no jobs.
• Canada has its notorious Human Rights Commission, which many Canadian conservative consider an outrage, but there'll be little trouble if you're polite. Canadians who are outspoken tend to be noticed, not often in a good way. Again, there are upsides and downsides. This custom holds down the other guy as well as you.
• There is gun control in Canada, but it's applied in a non-ideological way. The accompanying rubric is "public safety," which should give a clue as to who likes the gun-control regime.
• As far as the military and the police, there's a lot more ideological diversity in Canada. To take a single example, Gen. Romeo Dallaire sits in Canada's Senate as a Liberal.
• There's more political diversity in other areas, too. Noted broadcaster and feminist Pamela Wallin sits in the Canadian Senate as a Conservative.
• Alberta is a Conservative dynasty. If a Liberal ever became Premier, the entire country would be shocked. Alberta also had two ministers - "Bible Bill" Aberhart and Ernest C. Manning - serve as popular and long-standing Premiers.

I hope this helps. Since it's off the top of my head, it's not very systematic.

[flyingtabby]

I’ll keep that in mind. I had kind of ruled out Canada because I have relatives there in Ontario and they are all incredibly left wing. They think Obama is the best thing in the world. I gather many Ontario citizens think the same but I don’t know. And it is a seemingly very socialist province.

[danielmryan]

You may find this strange, but Ontario used to be a Tory dynasty until twenty years ago. I'm sure your relatives are good-hearted but don't know very much about how America ticks. You could always say that you're more cosmopolitan than they are :)

[PapaBear3625]

Then pilots who reveal to our enemies the knowledge gained by their their special access to secure areas and procedures deserve what they get as well.

Your assumption is that the bad guys don't already know the security flaws, from debriefings of all the people they have working at the airports. The bad guys already know security is an expensive joke. This guy's "crime" was in letting the taxpayers be as informed as al Queda.

[MamaDearest]

The most Freeper-friendly province in Canada is Alberta. They don't go much for hippies there.

When traveling, I noticed at McDonalds in Alberta, the people frequenting it were very well dressed in comparison to what Americans wear at Mcdonalds in the States.

The cost of living in Canada is substantially more than in the States. Many Canadians we met on that vacation indicated they'd move to the States in a heartbeat if they could.

[PapaBear3625]

I sort of suspected since the month after 9/11...when I was pulled out of line for a check for explosives residue...and the woman doing the testing for security was a Muslim woman in full hajib.

[danielmryan]

The cost of living in Canada is substantially more than in the States. Many Canadians we met on that vacation indicated they'd move to the States in a heartbeat if they could.

Personal tax rates are higher all told too. Each province has a hefty income tax, and there are provincial sales taxes (except in Alberta.)

As far as they moving to the States, I think it's a matter of the grass looking greener on the other side of the fence Some do, however; during the Chretien years, there was a veritable exodus of computer professionals to the States.

[MamaDearest]

I think it's a matter of the grass looking greener on the other side of the fence Some do, however; during the Chretien years, there was a veritable exodus of computer professionals to the States.

When up in northern BC, we found a small alcove along the highway which was perfect for a picnic. We walked into it a bit and found two picnic tables and a small lake (unmarked on highway) beyond it. We commenced lunch and a fairly large group of Canadians arrived in multiple vehicles. Evidentally we happened upon a "locals" place to meet. They brought canoes and water gear with them. Quite a nice group of people and we made a whole afternoon of it instead of just a picnic. They worked for the railroad and the park service.

[Cincincinati Spiritus]

primary mission is to condition Americans to accept heavy-handed government up to and including sexual assault and child molestation.

Why I don't watch TV or listen to radio anymore. Conditioning is for hair only now, and the wife's at that.

[Cincincinati Spiritus]

Americans have no rights, they have become slaves, and illegals have more rights than they do.

Afraid Canada is further gone than we. They are the testing ground for a number of Orwellian policies, like 'hate-speech' laws.

[Cincincinati Spiritus]

Then pilots who reveal to our enemies the knowledge gained by their their special access to secure areas and procedures deserve what they get as well.

Are you merely conditioned well or a conditioner yourself?

The "enemy" is anyone labeled "terrorist" which is soon to be any one who is anti-gay-"marriage" or uses or condones other such "hate" speech, or is a registered Second-Amendmenter, or dare I say it the well conditioned members of our beloved FR like Lone Ranger Dave. It's what happens when you have a "war on terror" and don't clearly define "terrorists".

[PapaBear3625]

I wouldn’t worry, they give those guys rigorous background checks.

As good as the background check given to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan? Keep in mind that Hasan would have needed a Top Secret clearance since he would be giving psychiatric treatment to soldiers with security clearances.