Homeland Stupidity

Homeland Security training TSA workers to save themselves in shooting?

"Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint screeners are [reportedly] receiving training to prepare them for the possibility of a mass shooting at one of the agency’s airport checkpoints, and those TSA personnel are being instructed to 'save themselves' should a shooting occur. It is unclear whether the TSA is conducting the reported mass shooting scenario training at airports around the nation or only at the airport where our source, a veteran of the TSA, is assigned." Continue reading →

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How To Get Kicked Off Your Flight

"Have you ever given some thought to how easily you can be removed from an airline flight, told to gather your belongings and leave the plane immediately because you've been deemed a 'risk to the flight?' It's easier than you might think for it to occur. Flight attendants have the power to have you removed at will, specifically their will." Continue reading →

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Always a One-Way Street–Er, Flight

"Kansas is treading ground Texas did in 2011, with 21 members of its legislature introducing a bill that would prohibit the TSA’s sexual assault at airports. And 'experts' once again predict problems arising from such courage, chief among them that 'the U.S. Constitution bars states from regulating the actions of the federal government.' Why do we never hear a peep from these 'experts' about the Fourth Amendment’s ban of unreasonable search and seizure?" Continue reading →

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Making Kids into Thought Criminals in the name of “Zero Tolerance”

"During recess at Mary Blair Elementary School in Loveland, Colorado, second-grader Alex Evans was suspended for playing a game in which he pretended to throw an imaginary grenade into a box containing what he called 'evil forces.' This was interpreted as a violation of the school’s code of conduct, which forbids imaginary fighting and recess play involving imaginary weapons." Continue reading →

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Student, 10, arrested for having toy gun in backpack

"School administrators in Virginia suspended a 10-year-old boy earlier this month after he was caught with an orange-tipped toy gun in his backpack. Now as he awaits his next meeting with his probation officer, his mother opens up about the incident. She is still in disbelief over what the entire event has done for her son, herself and the community. Just one day after her fifth-grader’s toy gun was discovered on a school bus leaving Douglas MacArthur Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, his mom says he was arrested, dragged to court and questioned, photographed and fingerprinted." Continue reading →

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Lobbyist: Use Drones to ‘Zap’ Americans on U.S. Soil

"Testifying against a bill that would put limits on the use of unmanned drones in Washington state, industry lobbyist Paul Applewhite shocked a House Committee hearing when he said that drones had been used for 'indiscriminate killings,' while arguing that the technology should be approved for 'lethal force' within the United States." Continue reading →

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Ron Paul says government is preparing for civil unrest

"The 'Champion of Liberty' himself has admitted that the government is fully aware of the potential for civil unrest in the United States and is even preparing for it. Ron Paul commented on the 'domestic arms race' and the government's obvious preparation for civil unrest by suggesting that '[the government] does not know that in two months from now there's riots in the streets, but they know that there could be.' Paul went on to explain that he does not believe the government necessarily believes that civil unrest in America is a certainty but that the elites at all levels of power are making preparations in order to retain their power." Continue reading →

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Should Americans Emigrate Or Defect?

"America still allows emigration; the door has not yet slammed. But America punishes the act and it is proposing legislation to punish it more. For example, a bill called the Ex-PATRIOT Act would ban anyone who expatriates from ever setting foot again on American soil. As the law stands today, the 'exit tax' for those who emigrate without renouncing citizenship is to be saddled with a US tax liability in perpetuity; in short, double taxation. The 'exit tax' for those who renounce citizenship is the complexity of the process and a confiscation of wealth from those who have it. This is a fiscal Berlin Wall." Continue reading →

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