Originally Posted by
TSORon
And of course the government rarely explains what it does in detail, and for well known and sometimes very good reasons. Someone out there in the government knows what is done and why and they consider it valid. You don’t, oh well.
Why do you feel that government must “curry public support”? Government is here to serve a purpose, not to make 100% of its citizens happy or lick their shoes.
Originally Posted by
maradydd
You seem to be missing the point that the government works for us, not the other way around.
Again: the government works for us, not the other way around.
Originally Posted by
TSORon
“Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The TSA does its very best to make those “American values” available to every person who feels the need to board a commercial aircraft.
OMG, Really??! TSORon, the government NOR TSA's role is to make those rights "available" to us. We already have them! We would be able to board an aircraft if there were no government or TSA. This is so blatantly obvious now why TSORon (and sheeple) don't GET it. And it's very scary. They are backwards in their thinking about what the government's role REALLY is. They are under the impression that the government is the one that's supposed to have the power to make things available to us as they see fit, and we, as citizens, are supposed to listen and do as we're told like children.
"Listen to us, we know what's best for you."
"Because we said so! You don't need to know why!"
"We don't care if don't like it, go to your room."
"You're lucky we let you step out of this house at all."
Many people have forgotten that we, in America, born as citizens have an inherent right to our own lives, while it's the government that's limited in how it "lives".
Obviously, there is a role that government plays in the protection of it's citizens, but it has to be done with the understanding that the citizen's opinions and feelings ARE to be respected and their continued rights to life and liberty remain intact. And it really bothers me that TSORon doesn't understand this. Maybe one day...