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VMI77 wrote:

chasfm11 wrote:

glbedd53 wrote:I have just about made up my mind I'm never gonna fly again unless it's to Hawaii, and I'm not even sure I will do that. It doesn't even bother me to get scanned or patted down, it's just the fact that they can do it that bothers me.

I'm not an ardent conspiracy theorist but I do believe the the TSA policies are more about subjugation than about airline safety. The mission is to train us for absolute compliance and I'm not going to be part of it if there is anyway possible to avoid participation.

There is no other rational explanation for conducting extensive searches of sick 95 year old American women traveling with their daughters. This is a teaching moment: we're being taught who the boss is. If that wasn't the case, orders would have come down from on high not to do things that generate negative publicity like this. Can you imagine Microsoft or Wal-Mart seeking this kind of publicity? They want us to know that they can and will do anything. Every time there is any public opposition they push it up a notch. The question is: what more outrageous act can they perpetrate next to let us know our place?

The mere fact of the government doing this could probably be changed, but with a population of people who actually defend this sickening behavior, we may well be doomed.