When I still worked for the government (in the bogus sham of a program to NOT provide health care services) I flew several times from St. Louis to Washington D.C., after the S11 event. Each and every trip I made in either direction, I was singled out of the crowd of waiting passengers and searched thoroughly (save no cavity searches, thank the gods). And I was on official government business with the same paying for my tickets and lodgings.
Since I quit that fruitless bureaucratic waste of time, I can't even buy a ticket. For one, I have AIDS and we are routinely denied travel in, out and through the U.S. Secondly, I am a convicted felon who has paid his debt to society (yet, the elephant and the ass never forgets). And thirdly, as a "card carrying member" of these two groups, I have intimate knowledge and experience of the fascist practices of our society and they know that I know it.
Paul Craig Roberts: Airport Gestapo
And right now too, your local neighborhood pigs have been given the green light to declare the likes of "gang injunctions" , and other wholly illegal and unconstitutional (or they should be) infringements on the rights of anyone who dares to not bow down to our corporate masters, 24/7. And they intend to "know" whether or not you "do" bow down -- 24/7. And they won't stop, either... unless we stop them.
What is to be done? There is no alternative but to resist by any means necessary. Welcome to your fascist future. -grok-
Since I quit that fruitless bureaucratic waste of time, I can't even buy a ticket. For one, I have AIDS and we are routinely denied travel in, out and through the U.S. Secondly, I am a convicted felon who has paid his debt to society (yet, the elephant and the ass never forgets). And thirdly, as a "card carrying member" of these two groups, I have intimate knowledge and experience of the fascist practices of our society and they know that I know it.
Paul Craig Roberts: Airport Gestapo
Do you really believe there are one million terrorists and nothing has blown up in the US since September 11, 2001 (assuming you believe the government’s account of that episode)?
How can there possibly be 1,000,000 terrorists and America still be in one piece? If there were 1,000,000 terrorists, America would be in ruins. According to the Bush Regime’s line, it only took a handful of terrorists to destroy America’s tallest skyscrapers and a section of the Pentagon and to send the President of the United States scurrying to a hiding place.
One million terrorists could bring America to its knees, and they wouldn’t need to fly on airplanes to accomplish this.
What we are witnessing with the one million person “watch list” is bureaucracy run amok. One Million Terrorists makes the danger seem overwhelming. Such overwhelming danger rationalizes the aggressive behavior of the bullies and thugs attracted by the power of confiscating your toothpaste and bottled water and riffling your belongings in your luggage.
Show your ID.
Take off your shoes.
Take off your belt.
Take off your jacket.
Empty your pockets.
Don’t complain about being searched without a warrant or you will miss your flight. You might be arrested, handcuffed, kicked and otherwise abused--the fate of many American citizens.
The morons who comprise the US government call the “watch list” one of the government’s “most effective tools in the fight against terrorism.”
What an effective tool it is! It cannot tell the difference between Jim Robinson and a Muslim terrorist. (former Assistant US Attorney General Jim Robinson, whose top security clearances are current. Every time Mr.Robinson flies away on business, he is delayed by a totally incompetent “terrorist” protection racket that cannot tell a person named Jim Robinson, who served in the highest echelons of the US government)
The “watch list” has not apprehended a single terrorist, but thousands of American citizens have been inconvenienced and arrested.
The ACLU says that “putting a million names on a watch list is a guarantee that the list will do more harm than good by interfering with the travel of innocent people and wasting huge amounts of our limited security resources on bureaucratic wheel-spinning.”
It is worse than that. What the “watch list” or “no-fly list” is doing is training Americans to submit to warrantless searches, to abandon their constitutional rights, and to submit to humiliation by thugs and bullies. A Gestapo is being trained to have no qualms about searching and intimidating fellow citizens, using any excuse to delay or arrest them. Americans are being taught to use arbitrary power and to submit to arbitrary power. In the false name of “safety from terrorists,” Americans are being made the least safe people on earth.
And right now too, your local neighborhood pigs have been given the green light to declare the likes of "gang injunctions" , and other wholly illegal and unconstitutional (or they should be) infringements on the rights of anyone who dares to not bow down to our corporate masters, 24/7. And they intend to "know" whether or not you "do" bow down -- 24/7. And they won't stop, either... unless we stop them.
What is to be done? There is no alternative but to resist by any means necessary. Welcome to your fascist future. -grok-
