TSA part 4

So I'm sure some of you are wondering "what's all this stuff about the TSA lately?".

Well it goes something like this:

Last December I flew to the United States, San Francisco to be exact.

I flew with British Airways this time - departing from Heathrow.

Upon boarding the plane - at check in when they swiped my boarding pass the machine went "boop".

Instead of a high "beep" a low "boop" was emitted.

"Come with me sir!" Said the nice British man.

"Huh? what for?"

"Oh nothing  - you've just been chosen for a random search"

OK I thought - no big deal.

So on a table I threw my carry - on.

He took a quick look and I was off - boarding the plane.

No biggie right?

Well upon arrival in San Francisco guess what?

At customs the machine went "boop" instead of "beep" again.

"Come this way sir!" the TSA agent said as he unhooked the divider so I could get out of line.

"What for sir?"

"Oh nothing really - you've just been chosen for a random check"

"Random my ass!" I said - obviously perturbed by now.

"ARE YOU ALLRIGHT?" came the coded answer.
Yes this is a code, it is a code phrase the TSA and other law enforcement agencies use at the start of a SITUATION. It is part of their DE-ESCALTION TACTICS and training.

Whenever you hear this phrase "ARE YOU ALLRIGHT" be wary! 

The TSA agent or law enforcement officer is going in ATTACK MODE! 

So I practiced my own "de-escalation tactics".

"Yeah of course - just tired" I said.

He lead me to the search area where I was confronted by a totally attractive young blond TSA agent.

Whoooo - de-escalation turns into maximum flirt overdrive!

But not for long.

"Do you mind telling me what this is all about" I said.

"We have the right to search any person coming in the United States...."

"Yeah yeah" I interuppted "But this ISN'T random!"

"ARE YOU ALLRIGHT?!" came the coded trigger words again from her training- blurted at me with beautiful big eyes with lovely long feminine eye-lashes!

"Yes I'm allright, have you ever heard of jet-lag?"

"What?"

"JET-LAG! You know- I'm tired and irate because of the time change."

I continued - as she was obviously freezing up - you throw these government workers a curve-ball and they always freeze up. They are stupider than a box of rocks (obviously, that's why they are working at the TSA) - it's like when you go to McDonald's and order a Big-Mac but WITHOUT cheeze. They just freeze up because there is no button on the cash register labeled "without cheeze".

So I used the slight pause to continue - 

"Look - this isn't random. You guys checked me back in Heathrow, and now you're checking me here , all 'randomly'. And before that you 'randomly' checked me on my last trip too."

This girl was not only beautiful but smart too, she quickly typed my passport in her computer terminal and said "Wow! You weren't LYING - we did check you three times!"

"Of course I wasn't lying!" I replied totally baffled. But realizing that THIS IS HOW IT IS IN AMERICA NOW. THIS IS HOW IT IS IN A POLICE STATE. WE ARE LOWLY "CIVILIANS". They see it as "US AGAINST THEM". 

They are the military or elite, and to question them on their high pedestal I must be lying right? 

How could I, a lowly civilian even come close to questioning their perfection endowed upon them by the state?!

Never mind that I also am EX-MILITARY and am savvy to their ways.

I started relaxing , as I had no intention of being tasered by a hot blond irate TSA agent.

She opened my suitcase and inspected everything.

I used the situation for small talk, however everything I said was misunderstood.

It seems that arriving on Christmas Eve is generally not a good idea - everyone is in a shit mood because they have to work on a holiday.

So this leaves me wondering.

How did I get on their "list"?

Six months previously I traveled to the US out of Amsterdam (KLM usually have the best prices to SFO).

Because the Dutch are so proud of being the most liberal idiots of Europe, they had implemented the new scanners in their airport ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS.

If it's voluntary then there's no problem with refusing right?

Well I had to test my "rights" of course - damned Americans! Always insisting on their rights!

"I don't wanna go through that machine"

"Why not" said the nice Dutch security agent.

"Because it's a violation and it's also VOLUNTARY as your Airport adverts said so themselves"

"Well it's because of your president!" he said!

"I didn't vote for that asshole!"

"Yeah but next year this will be mandatory - because of your president"

"OK you got me there, but I still don't wanna do it".

So they had to pat me down the good old way.

While doing my pat-down I noticed that a good 80% of all scans were faulty and had to be patted down anyway!

I told him that and he fully agreed.

So there we were, two 30 something year old white men agreeing fundamentally.... but still going through the motions.

I'm sure that cheese-eating proud to be liberal son of a bitch put me on the watch list.

I'm travelling again this June.

I feel so much safer now knowing these guys are "on my side"....

Doesn't it feel good sticking up for your rights?

TSA part 3 - Just doing my job män!

THE TSA part2 "Can someone please tell me What the hell happened to OUR country while we were gone?"

As the Chalk Leader for my flight home from Afghanistan, I witnessed the following:

When we were on our way back from Afghanistan, we flew out of Baghram Air Field. We went through customs at BAF, full body scanners (no groping), had all of our bags searched, the whole nine yards. Our first stop was Shannon, Ireland to refuel. After that, we had to stop at Indianapolis, Indiana to drop off about 100 folks from the Indiana National Guard. That's where the stupid started.
First, everyone was forced to get off the plane-even though the plane wasn't refueling again. All 330 people got off that plane, rather than let the 100 people from the ING get off. We were filed from the plane to a holding area. No vending machines, no means of escape. Only a male/female latrine.

It's probably important to mention that we were ALL carrying weapons. Everyone was carrying an M4 Carbine (rifle) and some, like me, were also carrying an M9 pistol. Oh, and our gunners had M-240B machine guns. Of course, the weapons weren't loaded. And we had been cleared of all ammo well before we even got to customs at Baghram, then AGAIN at customs.

The TSA personnel at the airport seriously considered making us unload all of the baggage from the SECURE cargo hold to have it re-inspected. Keep in mind, this cargo had been unpacked, inspected piece by piece by U.S. Customs officials, resealed and had bomb-sniffing dogs give it a one-hour run through. After two hours of sitting in this holding area, the TSA decided not to re-inspect our Cargo-just to inspect us again: Soldiers on the way home from war, who had already been inspected, re-inspected and kept in a SECURE holding area for 2 hours. Ok, whatever. So we lined up to go through security AGAIN.

This is probably another good time to remind you all that all of us were carrying actual assault rifles, and some of us were also carrying pistols.

So we're in line, going through one at a time. One of our Soldiers had his Gerber multi-tool. TSA confiscated it. Kind of ridiculous, but it gets better. A few minutes later, a guy empties his pockets and has a pair of nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA informs the Soldier that they're going to confiscate his nail clippers.

The conversation went something like this:
TSA Guy: You can't take those on the plane.
Soldier: What? I've had them since we left country.
TSA Guy: You're not suppose to have them.
Soldier: Why?
TSA Guy: They can be used as a weapon.
Soldier: [touches butt stock of the rifle] But this actually is a weapon. And I'm allowed to take it on.
TSA Guy: Yeah but you can't use it to take over the plane. You don't have bullets.
Soldier: And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?
TSA Guy: [awkward silence]
Me: Dude, just give him your F**K**G nail clippers so we can get the F**K out of here. I'll buy you a new set.
Soldier: [hands nail clippers to TSA guy, makes it through security]

To top it off, the TSA demanded we all be swabbed for "explosive residue" detection. Everyone failed, [go figure, we just came home from a war zone], because we tested positive for "Gun Powder Residue". Who the Hell is hiring these people?

This might be a good time to remind everyone that approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns-but nothing that could have been used as a weapon.

Can someone please tell me What the hell happened to OUR country while we were gone?
Sgt. Mad Dog Tracy

The TSA

I hate communism.

I have a personal reason for this livid hate.

My family had to escape from the Russian forces....twice!

Once east of Danzig and then later in Dresden.

My uncle was smuggled over the border to West Germany in one of those huge metal Milk jugs the farmers used.

He was only 4 at the time so he fit in.

My grandfather led people across the border through mine fields and booby trapped forests near Fulda in the 50's.

One time he was leading a group of people in the pitch black of midnight through the forest, suddenly the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. 

He said "Stop! We'll have to camp here for the night. Don't move....just sit down where you are and go to sleep there."

When they woke up in the morning, they were less than a meter from the edge of the cliff, a sheer drop!

So in the 80's when I was a teenager, my father brought me to East Germany - the DDR.

I was more than excited.

I finally got to see first hand what communism is and what it does.

The experience was harrowing, and simultaneously the single most educating experience of my entire life.

Still to this day.

I will spare you the details for now - they could fill a book - and I think that will indeed be a separate book or blog.

But what I wan't to give you is this - WE DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE ANYMORE!

I mean "WE" as a nation. 

I have seen first hand the workings, the impact, the reality of life in a police state.

It was harrowing - especially since I could leave the DDR, but my family could not (some relatives of mine were not able to make it to the West after the war).

What is even more scary, is when I see the parallels between East Germany and modern day America.

• Everyone is afraid of the police
  
• people do not trust each other - not even their own family
  
• There is a disproportionate amount of police per civilian
  
• You have NO recourse to the law
  
• Indeed, the laws are re-defined on a perpetual basis to suit the politicians' needs (see Eric Holder - separate post)
  
• The law only applies to civilians - police and government workers are magically exempt.
  
• People are encouraged to snitch on each other (see new TSA sign)

I think I will end the list for now and continue it in the book/blog about DDR!

Nevertheless, I think you get the point. 

George Orwell and Ayn Rand tried to warn us back in the 40's and 50's about this tyranny!

In their books - Animal Farm, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead - they seriously warned us.

Interesting is the fact that the words "communism", "Nazism", "socialism" never appear once in their books.

They describe oppression, and do NOT name it.

Why?

So that we will recognize oppression when we see it and not only when it is called by name.

This is important.

It does not matter one single iota if your government calls itself democrat or republican or green.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck.....

Which after comparing 1980's DDR to present day America - brings me to the sobering realization:

AMERICA IS A POLICE STATE!

THESE ARE THE EXACT SAME CIRCUMSTANCES AS THE DDR! 

Right now, at this very moment.

Friends, I DO NOT FEEL SAFER HERE THAN I DID IN THE DDR IN 1986!

This is sad.

Randy Weaver, David Koresh, BATF, TSA - just the start, we are all "next" now, depending on who the government wants to put the label on.

Paranoia?

NO.

DO YOU FEEL SAFER WHEN YOU GO TO THE AIRPORT NOW?

ARE YOU MORE AFRAID OF THE TSA THAN THE TERRORISTS NOW?

No dammit! I am not paranoid! I'm just a pissed off citizen who definitely knows what freedom is and sees it being taken away, right from under our feet!

And how? Because everyone is too fucking blinded:

Blinded by LABELS

Blinded by Politicians speaking NEWSPEAK

Blinded by CONSUMERISM

Blinded by HOLLYWOOD

Blinded by CORPORATE America

and the list goes on....

I can not change the world in this little blog here, but I hope to do one thing and that is give you some clarity.

If we stop looking at LABELS and start looking at the real underlying cause ...

If we see through the newspeak....then that is a very good start.

And that's the most important thing, to start.

"Aller Anfang ist schwer..."

another GREAT blog on the TSA

BIG BROTHER IS NOW

This nice TSA GOON wants to "help" you

This GOON wants to "ensure your safety"

"It's for your own good"

Definately a terrorist - better check his diapers for "bombs"

You fit the terrorist profile - better look under your tits:

"Are you feeling safer now Ma'am?"

Oh- there might be plastic explosives on your sternum!

George Orwell couldn't have said it better

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