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• Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:20 PM

  B-mod 101, Social Engineering and Learned Helplessness -- total control is the goal

  C'mon Patrick, you've figured out the "rules" don't enhance security, so have we, and you can be sure that the TSA knows it too. It's about control, it's about behavior modification -- it's clear that we are being conditioned to obey orders, mindlessly, or out of fear; it doesn't matter -- as long as you comply. And you will comply!

  Why are they doing this? Because they know that in an America where 1% of the population controls 90% of the wealth, the day is coming, and soon, when the peasants will revolt. The solution? Train the proles -- condition the ones you can, control those that you can't, make them sheep; and it's working, we are like the quiescent

  Jews on the train to Auschwitz, and the oligarchy is driving the train.

  And if you don't like it -- just shut your mouth and do as you are ordered. Comply. Obey. Or else.

  Is it better for our rulers to be feared than loved? You bet.

  About the knives... go to a camping store and get yourself some nice Lexan ones, they work great and don't show up on an X-ray.

  And finally, I wouldn't worry too much about the pain of flying, in less than 5 years, fuel will be so expensive that only the super rich will fly.

  —Bill Owen Read Bill Owen's other letters
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