In Pink Floyd's movie the Wall, there is a scene when Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 begins (2:26) which the students start marching in an eerily manner, mindless under compliance. Eventually, the break free from the forced compliance but at what cost?
In many ways, this reminds me of what we are reading today as the TSA and the media attempts to write that National Opt Out day was a bust. Bloomberg writes:
Thanksgiving holiday fliers accepted new body scanners and moved smoothly through checkpoints at U.S. airports, including New York’s LaGuardia and Chicago’s O’Hare, on one of the year’s busiest travel days.
As passengers packed planes yesterday ahead of today’s holiday, most ignored protest groups’ calls to opt out of scans and undergo a lengthier pat-down, and there were no unusual disruptions or waits at three dozen of the biggest airports, according to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.
The lack of logjams at screening stations gave a boost to the TSA and marked a setback to the critics of the new body- imaging technology. Protesters had hoped that travelers requesting physical searches would create snarls and spur the agency to change procedures.
Oh but what isn't being reported, as it appears from this story, the American public embraces the new American police state, is the TSA turned off these scanners in many of the airports to prevent a successful protest, and that is something none of us who encouraged National Opt Out Day foresaw.
America, if you let the TSA and the mainstream media get by with this misinformation that you have accepted these checkpoints as a part of your life at the airport, you will soon deal with them in other places you depend on to travel like your commuter train stations. Are you seriously going to go in the prevent defense and give up yardage in hopes they don't score?
