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Originally posted by wayouttheredude
I really like this article because it demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt the frightened and timid statist trolls in this thread have no idea what the heck they are taking about. This article outlines the reality of airport security in America The TSA is an overpriced humiliating bad joke being pulled on the stupid cow like American public.
Here it is: The Things He Carried
Read it and weep for your lost liberties. So many people do not even deserve the moniker of being called a free people. Liberty means so little to them they should just be put in herds and farmed as animals.
Please, keep to the insulting, cause that's what's left when you have no real argument. Tell me exactly how are we being treated like cattle, which the Jews in WW2 were actually treated like, before they were exterminated.
Originally posted by wayouttheredude
reply to post by Gnarly
Please, keep to the insulting, cause that's what's left when you have no real argument. Tell me exactly how are we being treated like cattle, which the Jews in WW2 were actually treated like, before they were exterminated.
And your argument is what? We must be obedient little dogs so our masters do not become offended? Are you serious? If you do not see how we are being treated like cattle you must have never run cattle. I have. These airport security measures are so much like putting cattle through a squeeze shoot it is not even funny. The x-rays machines are in my opinion a soft kill technology. You do not fall down and die on the spot but much later on from cancer. It is a horrible crime to put the American people and all of the other world travelers through this.
Also you must know that Micheal Chertoff is behind this technology. He is no longer Secretary of Homeland Security and is now the paid advocate of this technology. It is corporatism pure and simple. It is a stimulus money grab and nothing more. Read this article: Ex-Homeland Security Chief Chertoff Pushes Body Scanners, Abuses Public Trustedit on 13-11-2010 by wayouttheredude because: dyslexic
"The Senate voted 98-0 to approve Chertoff on February 15. Chertoff, 51, took the oath of office that night in "a private ceremony at the White House." DHS has a $32 billion budget, 180,000 employees, and jurisdiction over immigration, customs and transportation security, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The question of Chertoff's dual-nationality doesn't seem to have concerned a single U.S. senator. Many have wondered who let the detained suspected Israeli agents go back to Israel, immediately after 911. Apparently it was Michael Chertoff. (See Video Report: VIDEO: 911 Truckload of Explosives) "Chertoff allowed scores of suspected Israeli terrorists and spies to quietly return to Israel . In several cases, Israeli suspects working for phoney moving companies, such as Urban Moving Systems from Weehawken, N.J., were caught driving moving vans which tested positive for explosives. On September 14, Dominic Suter, the owner of the moving company, which was found to be a Mossad front company, fled to Israel after FBI agents requested a second interview. One group of 5 Israelis was seen on the roof of Urban Moving Systems videotaping and celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center. These Israeli agents were returned to Israel on visa violations. These Israeli suspects, and others, who had apparently transported explosives in the New York area, were allowed to return to Israel without being properly interrogated or their presence and activities in the United States having been vigorously investigated." (1) What is publicly available about Chertoff's life and his various careers is not comforting, if you care about either law or justice-and it's especially troubling if you demand a depth of character from those who occupy the highest offices in this land. Ah but then this is the Cheney-Bush Era of Empire, so that 'quaint idea' is probably now completely without merit. "Chertoff is credited with authoring the Patriot Act, the 300-plus page blueprint for the modern National Security State; patterned to great extent on the successes of the KGB in the Soviet system. He's admired among his Bush cadres for making sure that government surveillance operates at maximum efficiency. Under his stewardship at the Dept of Justice, the 4th amendment has withered like summer grass. The long-held belief that citizens, have a right to a "reasonable expectation of privacy" has buckled under the demands of "Big Brother" and the new "intrusive" security paradigm."
Originally posted by Gnarly
Originally posted by wayouttheredude
reply to post by Gnarly
You can't answer my question, can you? How does getting patted down, making sure you don't have a gun, or a bomb, or some knife and bringing it on the plane, with a bunch of other people, a mile in the air, take away your liberties and privacy? How are you being treated like cattle, when you don't have to deal with the precautions after the plane ride, or even before it? How does being patted in an airport make us cattle?
More to the point with your rather absurd "argument". How does allowing uneducated thugs harassing and assaulting the flying public create a safer environment for the flying public? The idea that some thug groping the breasts of women or genitalia of 5 year old girls does not in any way create a "safer" environment -
What it creates is a tremendous amount of tension where ANY protest against the invasion and legalized sexual assault creates a VERY DANGEROUS situation for the person lodging the protest.
In otherwords - the REAL DANGER is from the government agents and not the statistical absurdity that some gun is going to first get through a metal detector...
I have several friends who are Jewish and they are very decent people of the highest moral character. If you have a problem with the Jewish people please take that to another thread.