Let’s Do Away with the TSA

They are supposed to protect us from terrorists but who will protect us from the TSA?

The Transportation Security Administration, the biggest bunch of government backed bullies ever to grace the American continent since the Pinkerton Detective Service clubbed down the Molly McGuires in the late 1870s.  Anyone who questions their authority is harassed, threatened and branded as kooks and malcontents. They are the emblem of wrong thinking and the embodiment of big, evil and wasteful Big Government.

These useless dolts, who that phony conservative George W. Bush not only invented but also unionized, creating a boat-load of federally funded union hacks, live to display their self-important swagger and harass hard working people who’s only crime is to want to get from point A to point B without being humiliated and treated like criminals.

The TSA has not stopped one potential bombing on a plane or one terrorist from boarding one. The “Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid was stopped by fellow passengers as was also Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the “Underwear Bomber”.  In fact all of the latest incidents that we have heard of have been stopped by passengers while already on the plane. There seems to be no statistics on what the TSA has actually accomplished in comparison to the private security they replaced other than pissing off a majority of the flying public and pissing through tons of taxpayer money.

We don’t need the TSA and we certainly can live without the attitude, the threats, the thievery, the bravado and the scandals of this embarrassing knot of toads passing for safety officers telling us all what to do for no discernible reason other than “They can”. After all, you don't want to be bumped from your flight. It'll cost you. So you lump it but that's not because you feel safe. The TSA isn't there to make you feel safe. When you're in line, you're the last on the list of priorities. It's their show now and you're along for the ride.You only have the privilege of paying for it. Consider it a pay off for the military men and women who fought GW Bush's useless wars. They get priority in hiring and there are even signs touting TSA employees who were in the military. As if that makes it all better.

The TSA is a tick on the ass of the American traveling public and it's time for this taxpayer funded Dog and Pony show to end. 

We've heard the unbelievable stories, the protests and the weak justifications. The verdict is in. The TSA should go. We've been felt up enough as a nation and we want a return to dignity and freedom. Neither will return as long as this government gang of bullies are allowed to run our airports.

They cost too much money, they are highly inefficient and above all, they’re ineffectual. For all the money, the delays, the scanners that don’t work and may or may not give off too much radiation, the widespread groping humiliations and the apologies, they haven’t made one bit of difference in the protection of flights and passengers. Like most government services, it’s all just a dog and pony show and the economy is all the weaker for it since that big bloated taxpayer funded budget has gone to naught. This money would be better spent elsewhere.

The sooner the airports rid themselves of these trolls, the better for all.

Let’s hope the airports, aided by the new opt out laws passed by Congress, will declare enough is enough. The TSAs time has come and gone. They were a bad idea and remain a bad idea.

Good riddance. 

NSA Searches, Big Government & the 4th Amendment

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person or things to be seized.”

The NSA, as an agent of the law, is bound like any other, to adhere to and uphold the Constitutional protections outline in the Bill or Rights. Without the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution would not have been adopted by the States and therefor e is the lynchpin of all it stands for and the modern structure of the United States of America. To think otherwise is to ignore history and reality.

The whole idea of the term “Probable Cause” has been that authorities have to prove adequate reason to arrest someone or conduct a search, or seizure of their property. Probable Cause is required to be declared in a document where the facts for the arrest or search are detailed and a judge must agree, even if this step is a matter of course, for a warrant to be issued. These facts must be specific and not based on a “hunch”.
 
Now does any of this sound like what is going on?

Is the possibility that “Everyone could be a criminal.” a good enough excuse or that “it’s for the good and protection of the country.” when it clearly is not. However, it IS good protection for the preservation of the status quo of Big Government.

Does anyone believe, in light of the Internal Revenue Service scandal regarding the targeting of opposition groups and individuals for audit, denial of due process and exemption approval and the sharing of private tax information with the ruling party members that the NSA would NOT be called into service to listen in on and provide additional surveillance of these people?

And so this vague and general reason for the NSA listening in on conversations and sweeping and storing phone data and the ability and execution of reaching into a citizens computer records is a clear violation of the truths we hold as self-evident: It is wrong.

The NSA, thanks to Edward Snowden, has been revealed as yet another tool of the Authority State.

The current government and its agents the NSA and the IRS are acting in the unconstitutional exercise of authority.

This harkens back to the British “Writs of Assistance” exercised in 1761 where an officer of the British custom houses court could walk into any house and search it for smuggled goods without specifying the house or the goods. What is the difference between then and now except the means of the search?

The protection of the 4^th Amendment is not limited to one’s home but extends to one’s personal effects and papers where ever they may be. It does not mention “telephone” for obvious reasons but what is stored on today’s personal communication devices of only which part of is a phone these days should obviously be regarded as “your papers”. And in this world of converged networks where your personal computing device whether it be your laptop, tablet computer or your smartphone, you have a Constitutional protection from intrusion into your personal effects.

This is important to note because this amendment is specifically believed to have come from an incident when the controversies between England and the Colonies were reaching confrontational proportions whereby certain prominent opposition colonists were targeted for prosecution by the English state. Sound familiar?

Our ancestors didn’t bust their asses to come here to be held to an allegiance with the government for their sustenance, livelihood and well-being. They came here for the opportunity, the chance, to make the most of themselves in a free market of ideas and industry and to carve out a life of their own, free of an overbearing presence that dictates their behavior and customs. They had lived without the freedom of worship; they had lived without the right to be private in their homes and their affairs and without the protections from unreasonable searches and seizures. The challenge is what to do about these rights being ignored.

This is not a case of the Government preserving itself, this is a clear attempt at one party seeking to hold power into perpetuity and subverting the process of purging and renewal that keeps this country growing and going forward. Should this succeed even in the short run, stagnation and decay shall follow.

It is ironic that these United States, a country that has stood as a symbol of freedom and liberty throughout the world attempts to secure itself by rescinding the very statutes that made the nation what it was.

The Ever Expanding Internal Revenue Service

Everybody fears them and those who don’t are either a member of government or insane. To them you are guilty first and must prove your innocence. They will sweep your bank account without notice. They will scour your history if you should somehow unwittingly become their target.

Once you become “noticed” you are much like a bug under their magnifying glass when the sun is highest in the sky. They will fry you and keep coming back to fry you again and again for years after. Once you are behind, you will remain so because of their convoluted and incomprehensible array of rules regarding back interest that is so absurd that if your check is a day late, they will hit you back up for a day’s interest. Not a day late of delivery but a day late for THEM in processing the check. It’s what THEY say, not what YOU say. YOU don’t rate. YOU are only here to serve the STATE. Their hands are in all pies, yours, mine and our neighbors.

They are the United States Internal Revenue Service and they will hound you until you crack,  grab a gun and then they will shoot you down. It's not like it's never happened and it does happen. 

This is the capability of this tool of the government. It is of no surprise that they have been targeting the Tea Party or any of the New Conservative, Patriot and even Religious groups since their job is to preserve the present administration.

Who? The Obama Administration? No, It's more than that. I’m referring to the latest syndicate of political/corporate power brokers that are presently running the country. THEM. The IRS gets their marching orders from more than this President of the United States. The people currently in power want no change in leadership. The Tea Party and other opposition groups are a THREAT. How dare you want to hold onto your own money!

So they send their IRS MINIONS after them. At first it starts quietly with a letter but as they start to track where all the organization’s money is, the ABA (American Banking Association) numbers, the account numbers, corporate office locations, they then begin to dissect your returns and surprise, they find SOMETHING! They then raid your offices and it will be all over the news and by freezing all your accounts, you can’t even buy justice in America. You will have to fight just to have access to your money in order to fight the rest of the charges. The stress alone will take it's toll.

What has become the most feared police force in North America was established back in 1862 when Congress created the Commission of Internal Revenue and gave it the power of seizure and prosecution.  This was made permanent by Congress in 1913 with the 16^th Amendment to the Constitution.  They have been a bane to the American citizen ever since.

It’s not that we shouldn’t pay the government something since people throughout history have always paid either the King or local Noble for protection of self and commerce but it becomes a problem when they take too much and spend the money on buying influence with certain groups and to undermine others. This is not the role of proper government.

Say what you will about whether it was legal under the U.S. Constitution to establish an Income Tax or not, there it is and we as American Citizens are under its heavily armed Cuban heel.  Even with the latest revelations of wrong doing, nobody of any significance is actually going to lose their job over it. Nobody ever does in government anymore. The bleating sheep of the National Press will drown out any outcry and then they will broadcast a "look over here" issue that we all must pay attention to like Lindsey Lohan getting out of rehab or the latest Robert Downy Jr. movie. Nobody will care in a few weeks and we'll all go back to the same routine of paying the IRS demands without fuss and thanking God we didn't get the death penalty.

The significant thing that the income tax does for the U.S. Government is give it incredible access to almost endless wealth and credit. So much so that it is almost impossible to fight the government in the nation’s courts. The vast amounts of resources needed to battle the government in general and the IRS in particular is out of reach for the majority of American citizens. As the lines to be heard in America’s courts become longer, justice just keeps getting farther out of reach.  The tax code has become the baseball bat the government will use to beat you bloody.

And now the IRS has become the Club of Reckoning for the National Health Care Act. Their access to our personal information unhindered and unchecked. Not that the IRS didn’t already know everything about you, they now will have finger tip access to your personal medical records: What kind of Chemotherapy you are on, what pills you need to take and when you last had a thrombosed hemorrhoid lanced. They can audit you, your relatives, your doctor and the medical organization he works for. And they can shut you all off with the push of a button.  

And it all just depends what organization you belong to. Is it a good organization or a bad organization?