Back in November, a Memphis pilot named Michael Roberts also sued the TSA because of its intrusive security procedures. Roberts gave an interview to journalist Kevin Gosztola in November, voicing his frustrations that the freedoms and dignity of the American people are being trashed by the TSA. Gosztola:
Roberts, who has been running FedUpFlyers.org and receiving feedback from pilots, TSA workers and travelers, seconds this idea that Americans are too compliant and says that, while his colleagues and other travelers agree with what he is doing but say they can't stand up because "they have to travel for work" or they've "got a family to feed." He says they "hate what's happening" and "absolutely do not agree with it." But, the way it works, the ability to travel or put food on the table, is being held over their heads and it makes people who want to act out afraid of fighting back.Roberts' characterization of the TSA's policy as terrorism is echoed by many others, including Paul Craig Roberts, who worked in the Reagan administration, and is a former editor of the Wall Street Journal. Roberts wrote in November in an article called, "TSA Gestapo Empire," that the U.S. government manufactures the threat of terrorism in order to make the American people accept unconstitutional and dictatorial policies such as forcing people to go through unnecessary and humiliating security procedures at airports. Roberts wrote:
This, Roberts contends, is "terrorism." It's the definition of terrorism, which Roberts characterizes as "coercion by fear." The government is using "psychological stress and manipulation to make people comply with their abusive demands." (Gosztola: Why the Battle Against TSA Groping and Body Scanners is Justified; November 20, 2010).
With such expensive counter-terrorism activities, both in terms of the hard-pressed taxpayers' money and civil liberties, one would think that bombs were going off all over America. But, of course, they aren't. There has not been a successful terrorist act since 9/11, and thousands of independent experts doubt the government's explanation of that event.Subsequent domestic terrorist events have turned out to be FBI sting operations in which FBI agents organize not-so-bright disaffected members of society and lead them into displaying interest in participating in a terrorist act. Once the FBI agent, pretending to be a terrorist, succeeds in prompting all the right words to be said and captured on his hidden recorder, the "terrorists" are arrested and the "plot" exposed.The very fact that the FBI has to orchestrate fake terrorism proves the absence of real terrorists.If Americans were more thoughtful and less gullible, they might wonder why all the emphasis on transportation when there are so many soft targets. Shopping centers, for example. If there were enough terrorists in America to justify the existence of Homeland Security, bombs would be going off round the clock in shopping malls in every state. The effect would be far more terrifying than blowing up an airliner.Indeed, if terrorists want to attack air travelers, they never need to board an airplane. All they need to do is to join the throngs of passengers waiting to go through the TSA scanners and set off their bombs. The TSA has conveniently assembled the targets. (Roberts: TSA Gestapo Empire; November 23, 2010).
A lot of people in America have trouble accepting the fact that leaders of the United States government are practicing terrorism and techniques of fear against them. As a result, dictatorial policies, nasty pat-downs, and everything under the empire's sun is justified by these ignorant and fearful people as being necessary for "security." They argue that if people don't do what TSA agents say then they will cause further discord and chaos, and only make matters worse. Better to just shut up, and believe you're in good hands. Why sue? Why be a troublemaker? That has always been the position of the herd-mind.
But some of us know better, like Jesse Ventura. Every once in a while societies need the bravery and tenacity of outsiders like Ventura to shake the ordinary people up out of their state of mindlessness, make them think critically about their reality and world, and show them how they have lost touch with their humanity. Usually outsiders are cast off from society. In earlier times they used to be pushed to the outskirts, or up in the mountains. The herd is secure in the fact that if outsiders, who have strange and heretical views, don't live among them then they wouldn't be mentally disturbed by their critical and troubling thoughts about their society, allowing them to go on with their lives as if all was well.
In our day outsiders are cast from society and the public dialogue via language and media. People who make heretical statements like the leaders of the Bush administration and other agencies in the United States government staged the events of 9/11 are branded as "freaks" or "crazies" or "conspiracy theorists." Such mean-spirited labels are given to delegitimize certain views, and ban them from proper discussion. Another technique is making jokes about people who hold views like 9/11 was an inside job. Humor helps breaks the tension and eases discomfort in the herd mind which are caused by heretical views. And this coping technique is mostly unconscious, although some individuals intentionally laugh off statements that threaten the established order because they could stand trial if the people found out that their leaders are guilty of murder and deception. You''ll notice this technique in this video of Whoopi Goldberg and the "ladies" of The View poking fun at Ventura for suing the TSA.
Ventura is suing the TSA not for purposes of attention seeking, or to make a political point, but mostly because he believes that he will regain his dignity that he lost when he was touched in his private parts by TSA agents. It is no doubt an admirable stance. The "ladies" of The View, who have so much admiration for authority, and so little respect for Ventura, don't know any better. You will waste your energy by getting mad at such ignorant people. They are lost and dumb. That is why they laugh at a brave, honorable, and wonderful man like Jesse for standing up for himself, and for his country. They will recognize that standing up for freedom is not a laughing matter, and come to regret their ugly behavior in the future, when the terrorizing TSA and the U.S. National Security State become fully discredited in the eyes of the American people, and the world.
But some of us know better, like Jesse Ventura. Every once in a while societies need the bravery and tenacity of outsiders like Ventura to shake the ordinary people up out of their state of mindlessness, make them think critically about their reality and world, and show them how they have lost touch with their humanity. Usually outsiders are cast off from society. In earlier times they used to be pushed to the outskirts, or up in the mountains. The herd is secure in the fact that if outsiders, who have strange and heretical views, don't live among them then they wouldn't be mentally disturbed by their critical and troubling thoughts about their society, allowing them to go on with their lives as if all was well.
In our day outsiders are cast from society and the public dialogue via language and media. People who make heretical statements like the leaders of the Bush administration and other agencies in the United States government staged the events of 9/11 are branded as "freaks" or "crazies" or "conspiracy theorists." Such mean-spirited labels are given to delegitimize certain views, and ban them from proper discussion. Another technique is making jokes about people who hold views like 9/11 was an inside job. Humor helps breaks the tension and eases discomfort in the herd mind which are caused by heretical views. And this coping technique is mostly unconscious, although some individuals intentionally laugh off statements that threaten the established order because they could stand trial if the people found out that their leaders are guilty of murder and deception. You''ll notice this technique in this video of Whoopi Goldberg and the "ladies" of The View poking fun at Ventura for suing the TSA.
Ventura is suing the TSA not for purposes of attention seeking, or to make a political point, but mostly because he believes that he will regain his dignity that he lost when he was touched in his private parts by TSA agents. It is no doubt an admirable stance. The "ladies" of The View, who have so much admiration for authority, and so little respect for Ventura, don't know any better. You will waste your energy by getting mad at such ignorant people. They are lost and dumb. That is why they laugh at a brave, honorable, and wonderful man like Jesse for standing up for himself, and for his country. They will recognize that standing up for freedom is not a laughing matter, and come to regret their ugly behavior in the future, when the terrorizing TSA and the U.S. National Security State become fully discredited in the eyes of the American people, and the world.
