Signs and symptoms that our society is ill
Thursday, 4 May 2006 | 208 readers so far
When a society treats its own champions and defenders like criminals bad things cannot be far off.
Newly released government documents show that even having a high-level security clearance won’t keep you off the Transportation Security Administration’s Kafkaesque terrorist watch list, where you’ll suffer missed flights and bureaucratic nightmares.
We live in a world where the government increasingly plays the role of nanny, decision maker and disciplinarian on our daily lives. This same government that is supposed to watch us, nurture us and protect us from our own flaws and failings cannot trust a soldier, a man or woman empowered to kill in the name of government, to fly with a penknife. Our federal government cannot even accurately identify its own highly placed civilian employees when they try do something as routine as boarding a plane.
Allow me to sound an alarm. We are all in trouble because our common sense is being assaulted on a daily basis by nanny organizations such as the TSA. These are people who, no matter how inane they become (and they’re really, really inane) you cannot argue with, or question. If you want to fly, you have to take off your shoes, keep your mouth shut, and bend over if told to bend over.
We’ve traded self-reliance and individual liberty for really bad fake security and government web sites that answer important questions like, “Am I Wearing the Right Shoes?”
The right shoes, you poltroons, are the shoes that don’t have bombs in them. Any idiot can figure that out, and you don’t need a fancy machine to determine whether or not someone has a wick sticking out of his or her shoe. I’m going to have to learn to fly a small private plane when I get back to the U.S. because I don’t think I can put up with much more of the whole everyone is a criminal treatment I’ve been getting from the people who are in charge of public airports. The first generation of real American zombies is being developed at a major airport near you and the scientists who are breeding them are the retarded looking people in the polyster pants and shirts emblazoned with TSA.
1 May 4th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Kitanis says:
Agreed.
Another portion of this site we had a individual who talked about “proving to the terroist, our failures” kind of comment.
I hate to say this.. the TSA and Airline travel in this country has PROVEN failure in my personal opinion. We have lost many freedoms of liberty because of September 11th. Many people I know tell me that they support these measures to “feel safe”. I myself do not support them because it reminds me of totalitarian things that were made fun of when I was in school.. but they are reality in the USA now.
I always have questioned the “airline” tie-in with the federal government. Airlines are supposed to be private corporations providing a service for a fee. But if you look at the TSA, and the multitude of federal laws that apply to airline travel in this country, you start to wonder. Many of our present airlines have been bailed out by the government when they have gone into bankrupcy in the past..
Ah well. on the 24th I will be traveling by United to Ft Worth.. going to be interesting to see what I will see while on the planes..
2 May 4th, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Teresa says:
That man looks dangerous! Has he fallen asleep while being scanned for foot explosives?!?
3 May 4th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Stan says:
You do know that you are going to end up on “the list” for posting this don’t you????
4 May 5th, 2006 at 3:43 am
Dale says:
The problem is that our government no longer sees itself as a federal government. While it should be a federation of states, it has changed into a national government. It sees itself as running the country instead of responding to us.
Time to change them all. Vote third party this year if you dare.
5 May 5th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
alisa says:
Ack. Nothing pisses me off more than when little old guys wearing their VFW ballcap or the ballcap with their unit patch on it from WWII and the Korean War are pulled over for the “full” scanning.
I am on Southwests and Delta’s “watchlist”. so, I know if I’m flying either of those airlines I am going to have to show up 1/2 an hour earlier than usual.