Sieg Heil, TSA
Feb 11, 2008 | 8:09 pm
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Sieg Heil, TSA
http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers79.html
I am new to the above site and it has a wonderful column on a recent TSA v. American Citizen incident. It is beautifully written. For example,
Robert Jackon had represented the United States at the Nuremberg Trials; four years later, when deciding Brinegar v. United States (338 U.S. 160, 180 [1949]), he extolled the Fourth Amendment: "These rights, I protest, are not mere second-class rights but belong in the catalog of indipensable [sic] freedoms. Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart. Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government." Or, as Darron succinctly put it, "police state."
The TSA boasts more Nazi ties. Theres its parent bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security. Even neoconservative cheerleader Peggy Noonan tsk-tsked its demonic echoes in an otherwise supportive column for the Wall Street Journal: "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now. It has a vaguely Teutonic ring Ve must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!..."
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I am new to the above site and it has a wonderful column on a recent TSA v. American Citizen incident. It is beautifully written. For example,
Robert Jackon had represented the United States at the Nuremberg Trials; four years later, when deciding Brinegar v. United States (338 U.S. 160, 180 [1949]), he extolled the Fourth Amendment: "These rights, I protest, are not mere second-class rights but belong in the catalog of indipensable [sic] freedoms. Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart. Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government." Or, as Darron succinctly put it, "police state."
The TSA boasts more Nazi ties. Theres its parent bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security. Even neoconservative cheerleader Peggy Noonan tsk-tsked its demonic echoes in an otherwise supportive column for the Wall Street Journal: "The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably. Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now. It has a vaguely Teutonic ring Ve must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!..."
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Feb 11, 2008 | 8:38 pm
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With a thread title like that, I half expected to see a "Caution: Wet Floor" sign in front of the thread.
Feb 11, 2008 | 9:01 pm
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I can't see a great deal of upside for this thread so we'll close it down sooner rather than later.
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