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Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Evolution of Our Prison Nation
One of the most coveted items of contraband in the various facilities of incarceration across the fruited plain is the cell phone; and for valid reasons. The ability to engage in and coordinate criminal activity is one of the very legitimate reasons for categorizing these communication/recording devices as prohibited items in detention facilities such as jails, prisons, government schools and in at least one recent incident a TSA cubicle at the Nashville, TN airport. At 1:30 into the video you will learn how cell phone use is viewed by the TSA.
We Americans are becoming inured to being monitored, video recorded and photographed by our rulers in virtually any public and many private venues. Such routine practices should not however, lead ordinary citizens to conclude that they have license to engage in such surveillance of leviathan’s agents while they are engaged in “keeping us safe”. One such event resulted in the suspension of a middle school 9th grade student in Tulsa, OK. It seems the cell phone photo of a substitute teacher asleep in class was discovered posted on the web. A youth indoctrination facility school official stated the “...student was suspended because they’re not allowed to use cell phones on campus”. There is no word as yet explaining how the cell phone slipped by the alert guard school employee monitoring the metal detector at the entrance to the facility. It becomes increasingly clear that the real reason for the government schools has become not to educate but to condition the population to servile reactions to tyrannical government acts.
Outside these “facilities” and even though the courts have upheld a mundane’s right to do so, you will likely be charged with either “disorderly conduct” or “interfering with a police officer” for undertaking to record in public these minions of the state as they go about “making the state us safe”.
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Where do these TSA goons get off detaining people and denying them the use of their own property? They aren’t law enforcement officers.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/26/2012 at 05:18 PMGoober,
I refer you to the statement by the teleprompter jesus’ spokesman here.Posted by ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣ on 01/26/2012 at 11:43 PMI don’t have a cell phone, and have never used one. But that’s just cause I’m old and snarly.
I would think “we” have a right to have “our” conduct recorded. With VERY few exceptions, I can think of no right that gives any government official the right NOT to be recorded. (Was that too many negatives?)
That is, in a free society, one would expect that ALL governmental goings-on WOULD be recorded and monitored for abuse of power.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/27/2012 at 09:55 AMJust got back last night from a 1,000-mile round trip journey. I drove where I used to fly. It’s just not worth it anymore to run the gauntlet of TSA halfwits, get herded into a tiny seat, and be miserable. And it’s almost as fast, even at a 500-mile radius.
The airlines can go broke for all I care. If they won’t stand up to this maltreatment of their customers, they can piss up a rope.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 01/28/2012 at 09:31 PM
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