A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: HOW TO BEAT THE T.S.A. (Totalitarian Sexual Abusers)

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It’s me, it’s me, it’s Stephen T! - here again with some new “junk” about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

It was an article in the current issue of The New American magazine by historian Becky Akers in which she re-addresses the TSA situation and warns that soon the TSA will begin employing these same scanner/private parts-groping tactics in train and bus stations and at ferry locations, that reminded me of my blog installment titled “TSA: Totalitarian Sexual Abuse & The Hegelian Dialectic”.

Well, that installment on this blog inspired a greater than usual number of comments. One of those comments, submitted by my friend Mr. Sheboyganboy Six, questioned me about what I believe We The People could do, short of bloodletting, in response to the sexual abuse that is taking place in American airports by federal employees in the name of “keeping us safe.” (If only they could keep us safe from sexual abusers!)

The Becky Akers article prompted me to transform the response to my friend’s question into its own blog bit and place it front and center in the light of day, here at ‘Ferret-Faced Fascist Friends’, for others to possibly discover and hopefully act upon. So below is Mr. Sheboyganboy’s question again, and my (slightly edited and expanded) response.

Here’s the way my friend put it:

I am interested in your thoughts on what people should do OTHER than protest and squawk when the TSA implements this shizzle. Obviously, not flying is something to do, but what if you MUST fly? Wear one of those "4th Amendment Shirts"? Big deal. Let TSA grope instead of scan, and complain to their supervisor? Little good that will do, but it is better than nothing. All people can do (short of the Sam Adams route) is to complain to their legislators and demand that they follow the Constitution or they'll be voted out.

There has to be SOMETHING to hang a hope on!!!

Now it’s true that Thomas Jefferson once wrote:

What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

But I feel too bound by the principles of Jesus Christ to resort to that kind of solution.

So I responded to Mr. Sheboyganboy’s question and, naturally, proposed a nonviolent remedy.

…All people can do (short of the Sam Adams route) is to complain to their legislators and demand that they follow the Constitution or they'll be voted out.

Yes, there's that. There's always THAT! But there's more they can do. The People ALWAYS have all the power, they just don't know how to use it, they aren't usually effective organizers, and so many of them are so brainwashed and apathetic that it's difficult to rouse them to action when the action might actually inconvenience them a little bit for awhile.

In my opinion, all the people who are not REQUIRED to fly (i.e., in order to perform their professions) should IMMEDIATELY BOYCOTT all of the airlines. Drive, take the train, or just don't go.

I believe the trick is to put the fear of company bankruptcy and collapse into the airline industry. Attack Uncle Sam via the third-party entity that needs our money in order to survive and make more money (i.e., the airlines). We need to pressure the airlines to pressure Uncle Sam to "cut the B.S!" So, I say, absolutely BOYCOTT flying altogether as much as possible. And those who MUST fly, should all agree to avoid using one airline.

If all of the airlines began to lose a startling amount of business, and one major airline in particular began to lose ALL OF ITS BUSINESS, watch and see how fast and how hard those airlines will begin pressuring Uncle Sam to "get those TSA goons and their procedures out of the way!”

Allow me to reiterate the idea here in greater detail: Americans should simply reduce their flying of the friendly skies to the minimum amount necessary. We don’t need to cease flying altogether, but simply to decrease our air time sufficiently that the monetary drain on the airline industry becomes readily apparent to all commercial airlines.

In conjunction with that, and much more importantly, Americans need to specifically boycott entirely just one of the major airlines. I would suggest it be Delta. Why? Because ten minutes worth of Internet sleuthing turned up that overall Delta is the most significant airline company in the U.S. today.

The idea is to monetarily hurt one major airline so severly that the airline company itself will begin to pressure Uncle Sam to “cut the crap and leave the airline customers alone!” You see, a billion dollar company carries a lot more clout and will get the ear of Uncle Sam a lot quicker than millions of Americans operating in a willy-nilly fashion ever could. Long before Delta Airlines will allow the American people to bankrupt them, they will take that Federal Dog by the ear and yank it!

Furthermore, it would reflect horribly on Uncle Sam if He allowed procedures instituted by Homeland Security to result in the bankrupting of a billion dollar company at a time when Uncle Sam is expected to be doing everything possible to revive us from an economic depr-/rec-ession (which, by the way, Uncle Sam is responsible for in the first place!) How would our good Uncle explain allowing all of those jobs to be lost after the bankrupting of Delta as a result of public backlash against excessive security measures on the part of Aunt Janet and her Homeland Security goons?

Believe me, it would never get to that point. Uncle Sam would call off the dogs the moment he perceived that We The People mean business and that Delta was losing all of theirs.

We need to focus our boycotting on one major airline so that airline will in turn focus on TSA. Not until one major airline is nervously howling and applying pinpoint pressure on Uncle Sam and Aunt Janet will the government be persuaded to cease its trampling of the American people’s Fourth Amendment rights!

So, that’s the plan. One last time in a nutshell:

Cut back flying as much as possible, and pick on one major airline in particular. I say Delta; if you simply must fly, select any airline except Delta. Then watch how quickly Uncle Sam sees the light! I believe this is a viable, nonviolent (sorry, Thomas Jefferson; thanks, Henry Thoreau), approach that will bring forth the desired result fairly quickly.

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BONUS TRACK:

I mentioned Becky Akers above. Who is she? “Becky Akers, is an expert on the American Revolution, and she writes frequently about issues related to security and privacy. Her articles and columns have been published by Lewrockwell.com, The Freeman, Military History Magazine, American History Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Post, and other publications.”

I suggest you read a couple of her articles that have appeared recently in the pages of The New American magazine and on its website. Becky’s ticked off! And I love it! But she’s not only angry at the thugs in TSA uniforms, she’s disgusted with YOUR apathy, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss and Ms. America! Becky wants to know . . .

WHY ARE YOU STILL FLYING?
By Becky Akers -- December 6, 2010

TSA: AIRPORTS ARE ONLY THE BEGINNING
By Becky Akers –- December 29, 2010

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