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Norman's Conquest

4.9.09 @ 6:01AM

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SAFETY'S SAKE
Re: Jeff Fulcher's Flight Risk:

It has begun.

Was this on the audio tape? "Ve haf vays of dealing viz peeeple like you. Ve know vere your family are living."
-- A. C. Santore

I've been fortunate in my air travel but I’ve also made a conscious decision to do the least amount of it as possible due to the harassment. I made this decision before 9/11 so this latest TSA illusion is even more worthless. Eventually someone is going to walk into a crowded airport waiting line like the one where they herd you all together to check your baggy full of 3 oz liquids and explode something larger than 3 oz and kill hundreds just to make this point. 

Those in the know, that have served this country know what I'm talking about. All the public security measures we see are a function of politics to some degree or the other. Steve Bierfeldt was caught up in a political crime of sorts. He was guilty until proven innocent. He fit a profile that the TSA thinks it can deal with. Being on the record for liberty is a worthy security risk at the TSA these days. There must be a long list of failed Libertarian attempts at blowing up airlines on some government data base somewhere. As long as we expect and demand others to protect us, it will get worse.

Steve Bierfeldt got pulled because of what he thinks, not because he was a “flight” risk. The chances it was a random event are pretty remote in the age of electronic IDs and security databases. Like Joe the Plumber’s experience, even an amateur state government employee can run the numbers on you with just your “name.”   Organizations like the TSA, state and local Law enforcement can’t really handle the true-believer kind of foreign terrorists operating here. Law enforcement is taught to hesitate due to the delicacies of an urban environment full of civilians. Recent shootings of officers are a testament to this fact. They violated rule number three also, “Don’t take a handgun to a rifle fight.” The ease of how someone can enter a place and shoot it up these days without getting a single shot in return is amazing to me on the face of it. With hundreds of millions of guns and billions of rounds of ammo in this country no one ever shoots back it seems. Why is that? The obvious answer is the correct one. The sheeple are going to have to make a choice someday about who is ultimately responsible for their security. The sheep dogs will never be enough nor competent enough to deal with all this without turning what’s left of the Constitution into toilet paper and the wolves win every time we hesitate to take them out. 

The TSA is the post office of Law Enforcement with one exception. The Post Office doesn’t make you take off your shoes, belts, check your ID/ticket five times standing in the same line, or ask stupid questions to get your mail. Last time I looked into the stats, the Post Office is one of the most dangerous gun free zones next to government schools. Surely TSA methods are needed in these government controlled zones too?
-- Thom Bateman
Newport News, Virginia

SCAPEGOAT
Re: Jeffrey Lord's  Biden Blamed Bush, Gingrich for Virginia Tech Shootings:

I'm inclined to think that, with every "it's all Bush's fault" comment from any of these people, that Bush is being measured for his Leon Trotsky suit so he can be the eternal enemy of the Obama revolution.
-- Robert Nowall
Cape Coral, Florida

OINK?
Re: Sen. Jim DeMint's Political Greed:

$1.8 million to study pig pong? No wonder Congress stinks!
-- Gretchen L. Chellson
Alexandria, Virginia

BALLIN' ENTREPRENEURS
Re: Andrew Cline's The NCAA's Slaves:

I tried to watch the NCAA tournament this year, but failed. During Monday night's championship, as in other games of this tournament, I turned off the tube with more than 6 minutes left in the first half. Why? The last straw was what seemed like a 5 minute commercial break during a timeout. I know it brings in billions for the NCAA, and it allows for a free broadcast, but I can't take it anymore. And it got me to thinking about big money and the amateur student-athletes that never get to touch it.

LeBron James has followed an interesting career path that is open to very few. I'm not talking about going from high school to the NBA. As a youngster James, and his AAU club teammates, enrolled at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, en masse. More recently, James fired his professional agent, and hired childhood friends, people that he trusts, to assist in the management of his career and business ventures. CBS' 60 Minutes reports that they are doing good work.

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