Freedom Frisking and Granny Groping

Submitted by Sean Scully on April 1, 2012 - 11:52pm

Oh, the tales our children will tell about the dark days of the Anti-Terrorists.

As the robber barons sidestep the cancer screens, countless Lollipop Extremists were foiled with a steady regimen of toddler gropes and kiddie-sized wipe downs (pint-sized complaints to be filed under Goldman Sachs).

Luckily corporate science dollars go toward making flu more contagious rather than toward saving the ladies responsible for most of the food on our plates. When funding dollars are dowsed in oil and gunpowder all solutions become militarized. Before the bomb was dropped, the physicist I. I. Rabi was worried about the role of the scientist in war:

If we take the stand that our object is merely to see that the next war is bigger and better, we will ultimately lose the respect of the public….We will become the unpaid servants of the munitions makers and mere technicians rather than the self-sacrificing public-spirited citizens which we feel ourselves to be. - The Physicists, Kelves

How many more exceptions for grannies and the Super Rich before we realize we should do what Israel does in their airports - recognize and engage people as people?

Should we extend the powers of local police to allow the Vegas-style Eye-in-the-sky?

How many terrorists have they caught with their shoes off?

Hopefully the next Occupy surge will correct this comedy-of-errors, otherwise after the next election dissent may deliver a virulent rendition of Blackwater Blues.

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It's still NOT then,... it's still NOW...

Submitted by charliemoney3@a... on April 2, 2012 - 3:07am.

What is the people to do when the President is ' Disarming the United States Military ' and ' Arming Homeland Security outfits ' ?

Private vs Public Armies

Submitted by Sean Scully on April 2, 2012 - 10:22pm.

I'm more concerned about over-extension when he threatens China with forces Down Under. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-expands-us-military-presence-australia-drawing-warning-china Especially when he doesn't hold the purse strings and our soldiers have seen some of the longest deployments to war zones we've ever had.

TSA seem to have more rubber gloves and x-ray machines than effective implementation strategies and bullets (can't imagine 90 million rounds a year lasting very long when you stretch it across the country among all of the Immigration and DHS agents). He is the CIC for the armed forces and with his record of keeping GITMO, roving warrant-less domestic wiretaps and ordering new cuts to red tape in a possible streamlining power grab for emergencies ( http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/22/obamas-power-grab/ ), I doubt he'd change course as a lame duck and somehow disarm his military when it's Congress that controls the budget.

I am far more concerned about the Blackwater (Xe) phenomenon that has swept Iraq, Afghanistan and New Orleans with training bases across the US. Who do they answer to? Stockholders used to be called aristocrats, and a privatized military is rarely wasted.