pebblegarden

I live in Los Angeles and I'm appalled by the TSA's brazen assault upon our dignity and natural rights. In my opinion this is a tipping point in American history, and if we don't find our backbone and say 'hell no!' to the TSA, then we deserve the nightmare of oppression that will inevitably follow. The TSA's actions are not about fighting terror, it's about training Americans to submit. Well, I am not going to fly again until the TSA is declawed and sent home packing. My father, on the phone with me this weekend, said he always used to wonder why the German people didn't rise up and put a stop to good old Adolph. Now he understands, of course, having watched a similar process at work here in the US. We used to think such a thing was impossible; now we know better. The process happens in slow, measured steps, until the final trap clicks shut. All it really takes is a sleeping citizenry and a group of would-be tyrants. This isn't about finding the right leaders to restore our freedom and dignity. This is about reclaiming it ourselves, as a people, without depending on a wholly corrupt political Machine, which has thoroughly proven itself no friend of the people it pretends to represent.P.S. I very much doubt the Wright Brothers, and the countless others who labored to give Humanity the gift of Flight, could have imagined it would be sullied in this way. It's tragic, really, that an army of minimum-wage thugs stands between me and the realization of our species' oldest dream...to slip the surly bonds of earth and take wing in the immaculate sky.