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Posted on 01/10/2012 3:55:29 PM PST by JohnKinAK
Edited on 01/10/2012 4:35:18 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Occasionally in the past, I have received emails from readers asking me if it was time to leave America because of some new infringement on our rights.
In the past, I always responded to these emails by saying that it really depended on who the reader was. Anyone, I usually replied, who was in the securities-brokerage industry or the medical profession should start looking, because of how regulated those industries are. If on the other hand, a surfer dude just living for the next wave, would have little reason to be concerned.
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Sounds like you were getting scammed.
“Approximately a year ago, while flying out of a west coast airport a man stepped next to me and flashed a badge. He asked if he could talk to me.”
Sounds like you were getting scammed.
If you are not moving money overseas, do not be surprised when capital controls take that option away from you.
If you do not have a plan for how to travel when your passport is denied (and even the IRS can do that), do not be surprised when your freedom of movement is take from you.
What is happening to my country?
As well as every force that receives any kind of federal funding, if they want to keep it.
I have learned it is pointless to comment on what flying is and why the TSA makes sense (although it made more sense when it was private and some of the new rules are dumber than dumb).
But my favorites are the worm-eaters who say “I just won’t fly.”
I just LMAO when I see how people let the terrorists and the gummit control their lives. But I do feel sad that people are so easily manipulated.
Cascading screening (which is what is described here) is the BEST security system. It is what El Al has been doing for 3 or 4 decades and what we should be doing instead of strip searching 6 year old girls and 80 year old grandmothers.
But we are getting there — just REALLY slowly. I am a Global Entry/Trusted Traveler flyer and can usually skip the X-ray and taking shoes off and laptops out.
This article should be a wake up call. I have often said, “it’s something everyday” from these people.
Will we wake up one morning and find out we have let things go too far?
What WOULD we do without the internet and the ability to contact each other?
Something to think about for sure.
” “it’s something everyday” from these people.
Will we wake up one morning and find out we have let things go too far? “
How do you boil a frog???
(Hint - get out the saltines — frog soup is almost done...)
Its a profiling phobia. PC bs.... the FBI invented profiling in this country. The TASK should follow. It works. Ask any cop..
Task=tsa
“If you are not moving money overseas, do not be surprised when capital controls take that option away from you.”
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I left the USSA in 2004 and since then I started receiving my Social Security (2008).
My greatest fear is that they would cut it off for non-residents, which would put me in deep doodoo, as it is now my only income.
How does it make sense to confiscate nail clippers and to strip search 80 year old women. How does it make sense to pat down 6 year olds while you let 20 year old Muslim males pass with out a word.
Cascading screening (which is what is described here) is the BEST security system. It is what El Al has been doing for 3 or 4 decades and what we should be doing instead of strip searching 6 year old girls and 80 year old grandmothers.
What is described here is a mockery of what El Al does. El Al selectively does intense questioning suspicious individuals after a cursory questioning.
The author suggests that the TSA agents chose him at random for questioning. El Al uses behavior clues to select individuals for more intense questioning.
Until our government gets past their aversion to profiling the TSA is a no more than a speed bump to some one trying to commit a terrorist act on a public transportation conveyance.
We already have.
In the 1940’s in Germany it was called the SS.. Seems to me that no one ever learns from the lessons of the past... the people in the streets in Germany fell for the same line of propganda and B/S that the ones that have fallen for the same crap spouted by the W/H and its left wing enablers..
I won’t believe that yet my FRiend. Not yet. Freedom still burns and it is a hard light to put out.
Worm eaters?
Ha!
I'd rather go to the dentist than have to fly somewhere. I feel for those who have to fly for their work...That would suck bad...Having to deal with flying buses, airports, while sniffed, scanned, x-rayed, searched, etc. just became too much...Then breathing each others body fumes for hours while on the flying bus, seated next to some obese slob that smells like a camp fire....later with that.
Thank God I do not have to participate in any of that flying bus BS.
I’ve been through El Al and what we have is NOTHING like that. Theirs is efficient and not afraid to call an apple an apple while allowing the oranges through with a quick check and little hassle. Again what I went through for an interview recently is nothing like what they have and I didn’t have to do any special signup BS to get onto some special list in order to be treated as a non-threat or elite persona.
I’ll drive anything less than 24 hours until they “get the bugs worked out” or actually do cascading screening with the requisite profiling.
>>. I feel for those who have to fly for their work..<<
I appreciate the sentiment but it is actually OK. Of course, I always get upgraded to 1st class so I don’t have to be packed in with that classic fat dude we all see and pray to avoid.
Like I said, as part of Trusted Traveler, I spend about 5 minutes or less in line — no wanding or X-rays.
And I get to see a lot of the country — this month it is Washington DC (and Mrs. FD got to spend a lot of times at the museums which she loves), a few weeks ago it was NYC and my hotel window was across from the new Freedom Tower build (it is amazing how small the footprints of the WTC were).
Us humans are eminently adaptable — you can get used to anything. My commute is a few hours for the whole week. Most people have 10+ hours (an hour each way to work, 5 days a week). I almost always am in short walking distance from the work location.
After the first few months it can be a bit of a hassle — but when you cement elite status (airlines and hotel), it can work out nicely.
As far as people who won’t fly because they don’t like the idea of the TSA? Hey, if you let a few minutes of discomfort restrict your freedom of movement, I can only laugh.
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