I salute Rand Paul for his composure and dignity during this offensive bureaucratic clusterfuck! The fact that the TSA hasn't a clue that they cannot detain a United States Senator on his way to conduct congressional business speaks volumes; and the fact that the Obama Administration defended the TSA's actions is even more telling.
It's time that this agency be disbanded, as it is broken, beyond repair. It is a boondoggle, for which President Bush should be ashamed. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Bruce Majors <[email protected]>wrote: > People inside the Beltway have been discussing what happened and what it > means that the Nashville airport TSA staff detained Senator Rand Paul, > making him miss a speech in DC and campaigning with his father, because he > refused the invasive "pat down" groping procedure that he and other people > have been protesting for months. > > I think the most likely explanation is Sen. Paul's own. TSA is a > bureaucracy and its management is incompetent. They probably actually try > NOT to grope famous or connected people, but every once in a while they > slip up. > > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YNQHn4zHhAU/TyAGBFQqCsI/AAAAAAAABV0/18bUXDqMoXw/s1600/rand+paul.jpg> > > > What's funny about this incident is that it recalls a pre-TSA comedy about > government groping, Christopher Buckley's novel *Little Green Men*. Many > people are familiar with Buckley's novel about lobbyists, *Thank You For > Not Smoking,*having seen the movie based on it. *Little Green Men* is a > comic explanation of what is going on with all the people who think they > see, and especially those who think they are abducted by, UFOs or aliens > aboard them. The plot is that a government agency actually sedates and > strips and probes unsuspecting unknown people, Iowa farmers and South > Carolina soccer moms, and then releases them, so that they will *believe* in > aliens. Because as long as a certain percentage of American voters believe > in aliens they will vote to keep NASA funded and various top secret > military projects can be hidden in the NASA budget. > > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MC5EL4w3kSY/TyAGJuk6kfI/AAAAAAAABV8/n0n-txEgjKY/s1600/little+green+men.jpg> > > > A problem occurs when the government agents involved accidentally abduct a > famous person, a mainstream Sunday political talk show journalist (rather > obviously based on John McLaughlin of *McLaughlin Group* fame). He > becomes a zealot, organizing a million march on Washington demanding the > release of all classified documents about UFOs. > > Now I don't think TSA exists to create a budget to hide secret programs > in, or even to irradiate Americans routinely for some nefarious purpose. > If that were so it would actually catch a terrorist, or at least a fake > terrorist, to show what a good agency it is and how its budget should be > increased. I think it exists in part for security theater, to make it > look like the government knows how to do something. But the real reason > for it is to teach Americans to be servile. To give up dignity and privacy > and accept regimentation. To return to a feudal relationship to government > where one hands over one's daughter (as well as one's son, one's spouse and > one's self) to the feudal Lord's seignorial right to possess her virgin > body before anyone else. > > I hope Sen. Paul is able to lead something like a million man march > against our current return to a pre-Bill of Rights, pre-Magna Carta, feudal > relationship to government. > > > http://teapartiers.blogspot.com/2012/01/senator-rand-paul-and-tsas-little-green.html > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
