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November 24th, 2010

unixronin: Pissed-off avatar (Pissed off)
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 10:09 am

Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama say so.  And so are you, if you object to anything TSA does to you or anyone else.  It's laid out in an internal TSA memo recently leaked to Canada Free Press by a DHS employee "troubled by the terminology and content" of the memo, wherein "any person who “interferes” with TSA airport security screening procedure protocol and operations by actively objecting to the established screening process, “including but not limited to the anticipated national opt-out day”, and "any person, group or alternative media source" that "actively objects to, causes others to object to, supports and/or elicits support for anyone who engages in such travel disruptions at U.S. airports in response to the enhanced security procedures" is declared to be a "domestic extremist".

Well, if that's the criteria, then I'm proud to be one.  This Government moves further beyond the limits of its lawful Constitutional authority every day.  As long as Washington is going to declare me a domestic extremist for thinking they shouldn't be groping and fondling airline passengers under the color of authority for the sake of security theater, I will stand and declare my opinion that the regime now operating in Washington D.C. is no longer the lawful and Constitutionally-empowered government of the United States.

unixronin: Pissed-off avatar (Pissed off)
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 02:21 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary.

“[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview that aired Monday night on "Charlie Rose."

“I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?”

And after boats and trains, what'll be the next expansion of strip-search scanners and "enhanced patdowns"?  Courthouses?  Post offices?  Schools?

"Your papers please, Citizen."

“The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?” she said. “I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful."

Well, we already know what causes people to become "domestic extremists": Our government and the TSA.

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 02:23 pm

TSA Checkpoint T-shirt from LifeLibertyEtc.com.  Estimated in stock early December.

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 02:37 pm

Matt Schwartz at WorldNewsVine is, from the tone and wording of this article, pretty definitively politically liberal.

Looks like the GOP super cops are failing again.  Another George W. Bush multi-billion dollar failure.  Bush is a financial cancer, everything financial he touches fails with sinking colors.

But you know what?  He's calling for the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security to be disbanded too.

unixronin: Richard Feynman (Richard Feynman)
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 02:54 pm

THIS is just ... brilliant.  (And the pun wasn't intentional.)  A group at the University of Bonn in Germany has figured out an ingenious trick to accomplish a stunt previously believed impossible:  They have created a Bose-Einstein condensate OF PHOTONS.

...Well played, sirs!

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