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The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state
guardian ^ | 18 April 2012 | Jennifer Abel

Posted on 04/23/2012 7:16:42 PM PDT by george76

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To: Romulus
It’s what a great many freepers were yelping for ten years ago. Scratch a neocon, find a Trot — then and now.

Yup. The number of freepers who have tried to tell me that "I don't have to fly if I don't like it" would be disheartening if I didn't know how strong the tendency towards statism there is in any society. 

21 posted on 04/23/2012 9:48:53 PM PDT by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: george76

“Can I call America a police state now, without being accused of hyperbole?”

Yes.


22 posted on 04/24/2012 1:19:49 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SaraJohnson

Ya know...all you say is true but you omitted the part where We the People failed to rejected it. In fact, the electorate is the problem not the despots. As a people we’re apathetic, stupid, self centered and happy for the govt to steal from someone else so we might have. If there’s a problem in DC its b/c we’ve allowed it to fester. While we wait for DC to reform itself the noose gets tighter. Real change is going to come from an awake electorate not the pols.


23 posted on 04/24/2012 4:49:31 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: george76

TSA needs to be abolished.

We need to do what Israel does and actually use profiling to look for terrorist instead of stripping grannies and putting children through porn scanners.


24 posted on 04/24/2012 6:39:58 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: 556x45

Debate on these big issues used to take place in the newspapers and television news pro and con debate panels. That is not true anymore in today’s brainless”gottcha news.” We also had conservative and liberal think tanks arguing and educating people on such expansion and spending. Now we are dominated by radical Soros gottcha.

I can’t place all the blame on the people who do not know the dangers because it is hidden from them by today’s elitists who have the responsibility to deliver valid information on what is happening in DC.


25 posted on 04/24/2012 12:43:03 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: DannyTN

We don’t have free and fair elections. Voter fraud is rampant.


26 posted on 04/24/2012 3:18:18 PM PDT by Terry Mross ("It happened. And we let it happen." Peter Griffin - FAMILY GUY)
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What is the Republican Leadership doing about this out of control TSA agency???


27 posted on 04/24/2012 6:06:09 PM PDT by victim soul
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