Tuesday, December 6, 2005

# Robert Higgs at LewRockwell.com - Traveling Sheep - the only purpose of the Taking Scissors Away gauntlet at the airports is to turn once-proud Americans into compliant sheep. [lew] Two years ago, in an assessment of the new federal airport-security arrangements published in the San Francisco Chronicle, I noted that it "routinely abases and humiliates the entire population, rendering us docile and compliant and thereby preparing us to play our assigned role in the Police State that the Bush administration has been building relentlessly." In the light of what I have observed since making that observation, I cannot help but believe now that I was barking up the right tree then. [End the War on Freedom] Another good quote from the article: Strange as it might seem, most people get used to being treated as criminals or inmates in a concentration camp. Americans are no exception. Keep beating them down, and eventually you will produce a thoroughly cowed and compliant herd, a mass of pliant raw material in the hands of their political masters, perfectly willing to sacrifice their dignity rather than irritate an airport-security thug and be made to miss a flight. And heaven forbid that they write their congressional representative to complain. Such impudence might get them placed on some black list at the TSA or even at the FBI. Best to keep quiet, stay in line, act as they are ordered to act. Even making jokes, an airport sign I saw in Houston warned, might result in your arrest; so nobody jokes. It's because of this that I don't fly any more. comment () trackback ()  12:06:06 PM     The new Battlestar Galactica series is now available through iTunes. That's a smart move by the owners--the series tells a continuous story, and someone who missed an episode would be pretty confused. comment () trackback ()  9:31:03 AM

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