Another silly pratfall from the Kenyan Clown and his circus.
Posted on 11/19/2010 2:32:54 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
...Japanese postal regulations conveys the latest security announcement. Items weighing more than 1 pound can no longer be shipped to the U.S. by any means involving flight. The announcement, in Japanese, is here; reader's interpretation is this: Apparently the conditions for shipping packages via air to the United States have now become so restrictive that the Japanese Post Office has announced that, effective Nov. 17, it will no longer accept any packages weighing over a pound for shipment to the US by any method that involves air transport (including EMS, airmail, and SAL). Except for large corporate mailers, everything over a pound must apparently now come by sea. Asahi Shimbun is reporting that the Japanese equivalents of FedEx and UPS have followed suit. I assume that airmail service remains in effect for the remaining 200 countries across the globe that have not lost their collective minds.
Between the new, "enhanced" TSA procedures and this story, I've lost any hope that our leaders know where to stop when it comes to reacting to terrorist threats.<< Image of part of the PDF announcement is below (click for more detailed view), and after the jump some updates from Japanese news stories on the policy. Larger point: the only route toward perfect security is perfect lock-down and control. If we value freedoms or privacy, we must by definition accept something short of perfect security. I'll ask it again: Who among our political leaders is speaking up for weighing liberty in the balance? Or reminding us of the motto, "with liberty and justice for all," not "perfect security for all"? You newly powerful Tea Party people: cat got your tongue? Bonus larger point: the damage done by terrorism, always and everywhere, is not the destruction it causes directly but the reaction it provokes.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Next will spread worldwide the growing videos of TSA mishandling and mandhandling average American citizens...they are already all over the web, and expect a big downturn in Japanese and Asian tourism and travel to the United States, particularly year end. They will just go elsewhere if they have a choice...and so will their purses and wallets flush with $$$$CASH$$$$. Good timing for our American economic recovery, right?
Every sure this is not intentional.....??? You can't make this up.
Well, no more Christmas packages back home, unless we want them to arrive around St. Patrick's Day.
It makes sense to fly over to South Korea for a day, and then mail them from there perhaps. Japan is overreacting but of course the impetus for that overreaction comes from the US under the Obama Administration. Would be kind of funny and interesting, if it were not true.....
Is this entirely security-minded or also in service to Obama’s new goal of doubling exports over the next 5 years? (I imagine his union buddies approve of anything, however small, that makes it harder to get foreign goods into the US.)
If we dig, something interesting will emerge, no doubt.
I wonder if Japan’s move is a nice little passive-aggressive rebuke of our weakened leader?
Could be a retribution of some kind. Not sure. Interesting angle. He has made enemies each of the two times he has come here, I do know that.
If they wanted perfect security, they’d be for profiling. No, I think they are for something else.
“Is this entirely security-minded or also in service to Obama’s new goal of doubling exports over the next 5 years? (I imagine his union buddies approve of anything, however small, that makes it harder to get foreign goods into the US.)”
could lead to trade war worse than smoot hawley
Sheesh. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Even Liberals—like Jamese Fallows it seem—”get it”
Here’s something to know about liberal elitists. They don’t mind the taxes because they have plenty of money. But they like to fly and this really ticks them off.
Interesting that liberal Fallows asked "where are the Tea Parties in all this?" when it is probably Tea Party people who are the most vocal in outrage to these personal, 4th Ammendment liberties being seized by the Federals.
I don’t think Japan is overreacting. This is a well-thought out move that clearly expresses the level of total contempt Japan has for this administration and the stupidity it is foisting on the rest of the world.
My best Chinese friend, a lawyer from Hong Kong, will not even talk to me if I mention Obama. She was one of his strongest supporters, but now she is utterly embarrassed to even hear his name.
“Interesting that liberal Fallows asked “where are the Tea Parties in all this?” when it is probably Tea Party people who are the most vocal in outrage to these personal, 4th Ammendment liberties being seized by the Federals.”
I don’t think people who live in Middle America fly as often as those in the big cities. We could very well see a big city tea party movement come out from all of this.
Bureaucrats rule the world.
Even the idiot lefties that screed from the pages of the Atlantic are disappointed in their hero....but of course it is the fault of the evil right’s racism..
I am so 1973 that it makes me sick.
I need blotter or mescaline to make the next two years sans suicide.
“Every sure this is not intentional.....???”
If one believes as I do that Obama, and his minions are in place by design to destroy the United States of America, to destroy the Power behind the Free World, to destroy the support of free people everywhere, so tyranny in the form of Marxism can gain unencumbered in its progress Worldwide then YES it is intentional.
Soros, and company being the designers of this latest attempt to establish that old, failed ideology onto the World scene.
Another silly pratfall from the Kenyan Clown and his circus.
Enhanced TSA screening & air freight regulations are two “lost battles” in the War on Terror. If we don’t wake-up soon, secure the borders and name our real enemies we will eventually bankrupt ourselves. Not that we aren’t doing this in other ways.
Just depressing.
” ... expect a big downturn in Japanese and Asian tourism and travel to the United States, particularly year end. They will just go elsewhere if they have a choice . “
As much as I’d like to see my mother in NY , I too would rather travel elsewhere or just stay in Japan . What a sicko country we have become . When I first came to Japan 25 years ago I was a proud American . Not so proud these days .
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