I was a victim of the TSA
CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff
07/20/08
Which brings me to the real question: Why do we have all this pointless and easily breached security, not to mention a list that contains an astonishing one million names of suspected ‘terrorists’? Clearly, the security program is not about protecting the flying public, or the nation’s tall buildings. That could be done much more cheaply by putting air marshals on all flights, the way they do at El Al, the Israeli airline that has never had a successful hijacking. No, this is all about heightening the fear level of the American people, to routinize us to living in a police state...
http://counterpunch.org/lindorff07192008.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=suspected+terrorist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
by Dave Lindorff
07/20/08
Which brings me to the real question: Why do we have all this pointless and easily breached security, not to mention a list that contains an astonishing one million names of suspected ‘terrorists’? Clearly, the security program is not about protecting the flying public, or the nation’s tall buildings. That could be done much more cheaply by putting air marshals on all flights, the way they do at El Al, the Israeli airline that has never had a successful hijacking. No, this is all about heightening the fear level of the American people, to routinize us to living in a police state...
http://counterpunch.org/lindorff07192008.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=suspected+terrorist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
rudkla - 21. Jul, 10:43
