I’d like to formally introduce you to the most bullshit news article I’ve read in a good long while. From our friends at USA Today, I bring you: “Well after 9/11, ‘no fly’ lists a work in progress”. A “work in progress” - what a cute euphemism for an ongoing social control mechanism.
It starts out:
- NEW YORK — Tom Burke recently tried to print out a boarding pass from home before one of the frequent flights he takes.
He couldn’t. When the San Francisco lawyer got to the airport, he was told the reason: His name, or one similar to it, is now on one of the Transportation Security Administration’s terrorist watch lists.
“There was a certain irony to it,” says Mr. Burke, a First Amendment expert who is suing the federal government on behalf of others who have found themselves on either the TSA’s “no fly” or “selectee” list.
“A certain irony”? Are you joking? It’s called targeting. And it’s what happens to people who fight the government in the courts. All kinds of “ironic” things happen, like “no fly” lists, arrest, imprisonment for years without cause or attorny, even the ultimate irony: assassination.
I’ll tell you what - this article really steams my balls. Check out this section:
- From the TSA’s perspective, the screening is just one of the many new layers of increased security that are designed to thwart terrorist activity. The inconvenience is regrettable, but a price that society has to pay for security.
Wait wait wait wait. Is this a news article or a propaganda item written by a PR company to help forward the government’s agenda. Since when did reporters starting being so blatantly full of shit as to say that this kind of thing is an “inconvenience” or “regrettable” but the necessary price we have to pay? Guess what fuckballs! IT’S NONE OF THESE THINGS. It’s not so much inconvenient as it is illegal gestapo bullshit. It’s not so much regrettable as it is reprehensible. And it’s not even remotely close to any kind of “price” that anybody has to pay for anything.
This just makes me hopping mad.
- “People on the lists are known threats to civil aviation or suspected threats,” says Amy Von Walter, a TSA spokeswoman. “There is no tie to political affiliation, race, creed, etc.”
What kind of a threat could you be to civil aviation if not idealogical? So now we’re supposed to believe that terrorism has nothing to do with politics, ideology, belief or race? Is that why we are CONSTANTLY being reminded that terrorists are MUSLIM EXTREMISTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST?
- On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the no-fly list contained 16 names, according to documents obtained by Burke and the American Civil Liberties Union. Now, the combined lists are estimated to have as many as 20,000, although the actual number is classified.
So I’m supposed to sit here and fucking believe that we have TWENTY FUCKING THOUSAND terrorists running around the country? If that’s the case how come there have ben a total of ZERO other attacks? It’s certainly not because of this phoney-baloney “no fly/let’s take away your rights one-by-one so you don’t notice” list.
UPDATE!
I just found a search engine referral to my site by somebody looking for “2005 email addresses of arab owned sea food companies and dealers” - I wonder if they are going to use this as part of their “secret criteria” to put people on the no-fly list?
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