I finally returned from the Crypto Finance conference in Switzerland. I had the most intense, degrading, and unnecessary experience with the TSA.
When I arrived in Dallas, and went through customs, the TSA apprehended me at the security checkpoint and pulled me aside. They tagged me for an additional search either because they know who I am, or they think people in wheelchairs are extremely dangerous.
For a little backstory, I was in the wheelchair because I tore a bunch of ligaments in my ankle. I thought it was just a sprain, so I was walking on it. However, when I flew, it caused blood to clot in my foot...this made it swell and turn purple. I went to the hospital in Switzerland. They bandaged me up. Of course, the TSA didn't care much about my injury or this story.
Sexual Assault and Harassment
They forced me out of the wheelchair, made me take off my cast boot, and go through their metal detector and porno scanner. Then they asked If I wanted to go to the private room for the full body search.
I said, "nah, you can feel me up right here in front of everyone." Then they went to rubbing all over my body in the grossest way possible. He got to the part where he was about to touch my privates, and he said, "I am going to use the back of my hands to rub your buttocks and frontal area."
After they finished molesting me, they meticulously went through my bags. They took out each item individually, fondled them unthinkingly, and swabbed them for bomb powder. They laid all my stuff on the desk in front of everyone. The woman looked through every item as if it were threatening. This took a long, long time.
At this point, I asked, "Are people in wheelchairs the most dangerous"? They ignored the question. I almost missed my flight. Lucky the guy wheeling me through the airport was fast.
Control and Fear
This story illustrates a couple of points:
The TSA is an organization of control and fear. It's about keeping the individual subjugated. It's not about stopping terrorists. If government wanted to stop terrorism they would quit being terrorists. They would stop bombing third world countries and manufacturing pissed off Arabs. Governments use people's fear to gain more control over the population. This is why eagerly handed over more control after 911. They were afraid so they sacrificed their liberty for more government oversight.
There is no "government shutdown." The TSA is still functioning without any setbacks. The government uses the lie of a "shutdown" to create what I just talked about: fear. When politicians talk about the government being shuttered, it makes people feel like they need it. It makes the peasant class feel like children who are about to lose their daddy. If the government were shutdown to any degree, we would not still be paying taxes and we wouldn't have to worry about DEA agents kicking in our doors. A real government shutdown would mean all the politicians quit and got a real fucking job.
Moral of the Story
We need to do everything we can to stop cowering before government propaganda and fear-mongering. When the Leviathan reaches for power and few people resist, it gains that power and does not relinquish it easily. We should fight to abolish government in all its manifestations. That is the only way to create any sense of security. This is because government is the real terrorist threat.
Someone once told me George Orwell was a pie-eyed optimist when you analyze society today and compare it with 1984.
They were 100% accurate.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://sterlinlujan.com/2019/01/20/tale-of-an-orwellian-nightmare-the-tsa-touched-me-and-fondled-my-stuff/
There are some real effects to the shutdown, albeit very toned-down effects compared to the propaganda. I know a guy who isn't being paid during the period, but because he's "essential personnel" they are requiring him to work as a condition of his continued employment. It's not really a big issue for them because they're responsible with their finances, and he will receive those checks at a later date, but I can see how it might be difficult for others.
Lots of these people don't have any savings and are in heavy credit card, automobile and house debt. Thirty to sixty days is about as long as these people can go without being insolvent. My hope is that many of these financially strapped government employees will quit their government jobs and get jobs in the private sector to compensate. At the very least, if only temporarily, it could make a small step towards alleviating the vampiric drain from the economy that is government "work."
By the way, I'm very sorry to hear about your experience with TSA Sterlin. That sounds like it was a pretty horrible experience.
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If only people could see the world objectively, outside of themselves and what they're told is reality. It's so sad to see people react and "care" so much about what is fed to them. They don't realize that they have a choice to further examine the information that is loaded into their minds for processing. They only process it and believe that the result of running the program is truth. It would benefit them to start learning to program their own minds instead of only running third party wetware. This knowledge might help them to know the difference between an induced belief and one which was spawned from within through critical thinking.
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Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.
https://www.aeinstein.org/
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The people that do this just disgust me. In the UK its not as bad but I had three people in fancy dress with machine guns over a jar of chutney. Apparently this is a band item as it is water, last time I looked it wasn't. I did point this out which did not help my case. The W***er then offered to post it to my address for £40, you can imagine my reply something along the line of have it yourself and don't choke on it. People need to wake to this abuse that is going on in the name of apparent security. To me it seems of you can take an empty bottle and then lots of small bottles of 100ml liquid complete contradicts any reason at to why you can only take 100mls. Try asking this question beware through the will threaten you! 💯🐒
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an interesting thought
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