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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 09:41 AM

    @ Mike, Lunancy will never stop

    Sorry Mike, as I said in my earlier post, these measure have little to do with security and everything to do with social control.

    Recently, here in Canada, (yes the infection has spread, we even have a no fly list) a Polish man became confused and wound up wandering around the arrival areas for hours. Eventually he went a little crazy and starting throwing things around. 4 RCMP arrived and tased him to death.

    Our response? Oh well.

    Killing people is actually very useful from the fascist point of view.

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