My real point is this:

1)Americans think nothing of flying a thousand miles for a ski weekend, or some other not really essential activity.

2)In doing so, we pollute the skies and waste oil.

3)In order to maintain this ‘lifestyle’, the US has to maintain a military presence in the middle east, which in the broader sense includes Afghanistan.

4)We CREATED Al Qaeda in the 1980s. Ossama Bin Laden was a CIA shill, and we used him and his forces to sabotage the Russians, who were at that time fighting a war in Afghanistan.

5)Fast forward 20 years, and guess what? our former ‘allies’ are just as pissed off at US as they were at the Russians, but actually more so, because we put our ‘infidel’ soldiers on the ground in the sacred Saudi land itself.

6)Thus, the world trade center attacks.

7)Thus, related terrorist threats, real and imagined.

8)Thus, it becomes dangerous to fly, giving the Feds an ideal excuse to turn this country into a police state, slowly, over a period of generations, so that people grow up taking these absurdities for granted.

9)The answer? Opt out.

I’m not ‘whining,’ I’m just saying that if travel has become this much of a pain in the ass, I’ll stay home.

I don’t watch TV, either. I can’t change the prevailing culture, but it IS still possible to avoid its brainwashing influence to some degree.

The purpose of the TSA is OBEDIENCE TRAINING FOR ADULTS and graft and corruption. It’s just a pilot program and by the USG remarks very effective for the OBEDIENCE TRAINING purpose, its mission.Having traveled to the then USSR in 1984, the KGB had nothing compared to the TSA invasive abuse and humiliation of its citizens and visitors. Eventually, we all will have a chip embedded to avoid the TSA hassle, right? NOT,its for obedience trainings and in fact Heinrich “chicken rancher” Himmler has to be proud that his legacy is being continued by conquerors, the USA, UK. OBL, is dancing in his cave and the fact that 19 men defeated the USG so thoroughly with the War of 9/11, a one day war, and the last 9 years has been a temper tantrum by the Bush/Cheney evil and referring to this temper tantrum as a war, the absurdity which has so easily duped the ignorant, gullible, narcissistic, consumerist gluttons, which Americans are, fulfills the proverb, if you can make people believe the absurd you can make them believe anything. Americans being mindlessness, unable to discern thoughts from facts, construe the absurd thoughts of others into their own facts.

The health issue is, in my opinion, much more important than privacy.

People who travel frequently will receive the equivalent of several dozen chest X-Rays every year, increasing their chance of lung cancer, skin cancer and heart disease by very significant numbers.

I don’t even let my dentist X-Ray me as often as he’d like!

Damme if I’m gonna let the Feds radiate me into an early grave.

I’ll never fly again, if that’s the only way to avoid this.

The full length body scanners at airports is just the beginning. They have plans to put these in shopping malls, bus and train stations, and other public places where there are large gatherings of people like at sports arenas. You won’t be able to travel on public transportation unless you go through a full length body scanner. They have developed a full length body scanner that can see your goodies from up to 100 feet. You probably won’t even know you are being scanned. Do a search on the internet and verify this for yourselves. Start here:
http://www.potomacinstitute.org/attachments/828_Sheppard_Private Eyes.pdf

What’s dishonest and offensive about Obama’s halting and timorous response regarding the new security measures is his referring to them as merely “inconveniences” to travelers, as if that is what flyers object to. He doesn’t at all acknowledge the offensive intrusiveness of the procedures—to what known benefit?—or the well-founded growing feeling by citizens that this is merely a precursor of more security outrages to come, and not just at airports but in all areas of our public life.

The TSA’s threat to pursue an investigation of and action against traveler John Tyner who made news last week by refusing to submit, declaring, “If you touch my junk I’ll have you arrested!” and who then opted to miss his flight and leave the airport simply compounds the abuse and the unease it arouses: are we facing the loss of personal volition about submitting to arbitrary authority, at threat of legal consequences?

Mr. Obama demonstrates increasingly with each passing week that he is a miserable failure as President, not the bringer of “change” or “hope” that he promised us he would be, but, as his pre-election vote for the revised FISA bill revealed he would be for those paying attention at the time, the latest minion of the real caesars of the American Empire: Wall Street, the banks, the Pentagon, and the minority of wealthy private citizens who hold most of the country’s wealth.