TSA Now Feeling Up Ambassadors

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=174607

Controversial airport scanners identify more crooks than terrorists

Controversial airport scanners identify more crooks than terrorists

Body scanners and pat-downs are supposed to make passengers safer by detecting devices that could bring down an airplane.

But the federal government’s latest, more-intrusive screening measures appear more useful in finding drugs and wads of cash than tools of terror, a review of Indianapolis Airport Police records suggests.

The Federal Government has turned airport security into a police checkpoint that is able to do warrantless searches just because it claims that the TSA isn't with law enforcement powers. Sure, just like social services folks claimed they could do search and seizure without a warrant. These are bogus arguments.

http://www.ibj.com/controversial-airport-scanners-identify-more-crooks-than-terrorists-/PARAMS/article/23926

Rage against the dying of light (bulbs)

Rage against the dying of light (bulbs)
Nolan Finley

We've been bullied and brainwashed into accepting the ever-growing intrusion of politicians, regulators and do-gooders into our personal decision making in the name of the greater societal good.
We're told that if we give up some of our individual freedom to buy what we want, drive what we want, smoke and eat what we want, the world will be a better place.
But we can't be trusted to make the right decisions on our own just because we understand the need to conserve and may hope to save a few bucks. We need laws to make sure nothing is left to chance.
Those mandates have already saddled us with toilets that won't flush, washers that won't wash, ethanol-laced gasoline that burns up our lawnmower engines and electric cars that aren't nearly as comfortable, powerful or practical as the models they're supposed to replace.

http://detnews.com/article/20101209/OPINION03/12090334/Rage-against-the-dying-of-light-(bulbs)

We've Been Punked

Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?

Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?
http://fedupusa.org/2010/12/09/are-the-federal-reserve%E2%80%99s-crimes-too-big-to-comprehend/

A nude awakening — TSA and privacy

A nude awakening — TSA and privacy
Evan DeFilippis/The Daily

Consider a quote from United States v. Guest (1966): “In any event, freedom to travel throughout the United States has long been recognized as a basic right under the Constitution.” Another quote from Shapiro v Thompson (1969): “‘The constitutional right to travel from one State to another . . . has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized.’ … This constitutional right, which, of course, includes the right of ‘entering and abiding in any State in the Union,’ is not a mere conditional liberty subject to regulation and control under conventional due process or equal protection standards. ‘[T]he right to travel freely from State to State finds constitutional protection that is quite independent of the Fourteenth Amendment.’ As we made clear in Guest, it is a right broadly assertable against private interference as well as governmental action. Like the right of association, NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449, it is a virtually unconditional personal right, guaranteed by the Constitution to us all.”

If we have both the right to privacy and the right to travel, then TSA’s newest procedures cannot conceivably be considered legal. The TSA’s regulations blatantly compromise the former at the expense of the latter, and as time goes on we will soon forget what it meant to have those rights.

http://www.oudaily.com/news/2010/dec/06/column-nude-awakening-tsa-and-privacy/

Are All U.S. Citizens Equal?

TSA Tells Children Pat-Down is a "Game" With the Intolerable Consent of the Parents

TSA telling children “pat-down is a game” sends a wrong message

Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, [warns] regarding a new TSA technique for getting children to cooperate with airport screeners by telling them that “pat-downs are a game.”

Wooden notes that the touching-is-a-game line is one of the most commonly used ploys by sexual predators to initiate inappropriate contact with a child.

http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-national/tsa-telling-children-pat-down-is-a-game-sends-a-wrong-message

The Coach Class Rebellion

It is intolerable that the Executive Branch of the Federal Government should exempt certain classes of people, such as Congress critters, heads of bureaucracies, pilots and flight attendants, but require the rest of the U.S. Citizens to submit themselves to degrading procedures simply because they are not an employee of an airline and don't have the economic means to fly charter or general aviation.

It is good to see that local politicians are recognizing this injustice while federal politicians turn a deaf ear. We want our freedom back!

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Note:
State, local lawmakers seek alternatives to TSA airport screenings
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/2/state-city-lawmakers-seek-tsa-options/

The Madness of a Lost Society