Julian Assange:
Yes, we have leaks on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a trojan horse trade agreement designed from the very beginning to satisfy big players in the US copyright and patent industries. In fact, it was WikiLeaks that first drew ACTA to the public's attention - with a leak.
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Lew Rockwell shares the latest production by WSPD interview host, Brian Wilson.
Lew Rockwell believes that only by opting out of the state can we save our hides and our wallets. TSA violations of inalienable rights have nothing to do with real security, are bad for your health and could destroy perfectly fine private airlines -- the s... (more)
Colorado lawyer, Gary Fielder, has filed for a Permanent Restraining Order in federal district court against Janet Napolitano, John Pistole, the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA. Attorney Fielder made headlines earlier this year when he refused to go through a naked body scanner installed at a Colorado courthouse. He has now filed a Complaint for Injunctive Relief to stop the naked body scanners and en... (more)
Tuesday night I excited to get out of work and start my weekend. It was a long weekend with thanksgiving coming up. I took the Wednesday before thanksgiving off to clean house in preporation for Thursday, be with family visiting from out of town and to go to the protests at airports on the 24th. I was really excited about the protests on the 24th. To be honest, I was also a bit nervous. I was going to be walking into an area covered with government agents and employees. Tons of authoritarians an... (more)
As promised, here are the (condensed) audio files of the whole episode. If you only have a short time, skip right to the one called “The Main Argument.” That is definitely the best one.
Becky Akers, columnist at Lewrockwell.com, discusses the Transportation Security Administration’s dual purpose: to give air travelers a good show of security theater and to inure Americans to a police state, why engaging in protest is the only good reason left to visit an airport, the superficial proposals to “privatize” TSA screeners without changing their operating methods and why ... (more)
The implementation of full body scans and pat downs by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as part of security enhancements at our nation's airports will cause 48% of Americans and 42% of more frequent fliers to choose a different mode of transportation when possible, a recent Zogby International Poll finds.
Overall, 61% of the 2,032 likely voters polled from Nov. 19 to Nov. 22, oppose the use of full body scans and TSA pat downs. Republicans (69%) and Independents ... (more)
A man kicked off today’s National Opt Out Day protest against TSA screening measures in a bold fashion, stripping down to his speedo’s with the words “Screw Big Sis” scrawled on his back before passing through airport security.
Telling screeners that he was stripping down as a “safety precaution,” a TSA worker barked, “put your clothes back on,” before fetching a supervisor, who... (more)
Thanksgiving holiday travelers jamming into U.S. airports will provide the biggest test yet of the government’s body scanners and physical pat-downs criticized by some fliers as a danger to health and an invasion of privacy.
Airports and airlines are stepping up staffing amid concern that protests of the new procedures may snarl Transportation Security Administration checkpoints. With more than 2 million people boarding planes, today will be one of this year’s busiest ... (more)
Blogger Matt Kernan was able to bypass both the naked body scanner and invasive TSA pat down procedures during his return to the United States this past weekend, proving that both measures are completely unconstitutional and creating a precedent for a total shake-up of airport security.
Kernan, who documents the case on his website, was returning from a trip to Europe and was perturbed to see TSA workers making Americans who had already cleared security in their airport of ori... (more)
"My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same... (more)
BINGO! The government can't protect you, won't protect you, and arguably doesn't even want to protect you. They profit off terrorism because the government gets more power down to the lowest underling with every attack. To ignore this direct incentive inherent in the fabric of our government is to ignore reality.
The airlines, on the other hand, have every incentive to have secure flights. If someone wants to go through a naked body scanner, that's fine so long as they're willing to pay for the naked scanners in their ticket price. Instead, the government steals taxpayer money to subsidize these scanners and force them on people who don't want to use them and would never voluntarily pay for them. If the small amount of paranoid schizophrenics who love the government so much and love having their genitals scanned, groped, and cataloged by government goon-squads want the "security," then they should be the ones demanding airlines put them in and showing they want them by paying triple for their "extra security" flights.
That's how things work in a free society. If enough people want them and are willing to pay for them, they can get them. You don't steal from your non-consenting neighbor to pay for them and then subject everyone to them carte blanche.- Chris, InfoLib
