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Another TSA Outrage

Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)
Thursday, November 18th at 6:28PM EST

As the Chalk Leader for my flight home from Afghanistan, I witnessed the following:

When we were on our way back from Afghanistan, we flew out of Baghram Air Field. We went through customs at BAF, full body scanners (no groping), had all of our bags searched, the whole nine yards.

Our first stop was Shannon, Ireland to refuel. After that, we had to stop at Indianapolis, Indiana to drop off about 100 folks from the Indiana National Guard. That’s where the stupid started.

First, everyone was forced to get off the plane–even though the plane wasn’t refueling again. All 330 people got off that plane, rather than let the 100 people from the ING get off. We were filed from the plane to a holding area. No vending machines, no means of escape. Only a male/female latrine.

It’s probably important to mention that we were ALL carrying weapons. Everyone was carrying an M4 Carbine (rifle) and some, like me, were also carrying an M9 pistol. Oh, and our gunners had M-240B machine guns. Of course, the weapons weren’t loaded. And we had been cleared of all ammo well before we even got to customs at Baghram, then AGAIN at customs.

The TSA personnel at the airport seriously considered making us unload all of the baggage from the SECURE cargo hold to have it reinspected. Keep in mind, this cargo had been unpacked, inspected piece by piece by U.S. Customs officials, resealed and had bomb-sniffing dogs give it a one-hour run through. After two hours of sitting in this holding area, the TSA decided not to reinspect our Cargo–just to inspect us again: Soldiers on the way home from war, who had already been inspected, reinspected and kept in a SECURE holding area for 2 hours. Ok, whatever. So we lined up to go through security AGAIN.

This is probably another good time to remind you all that all of us were carrying actual assault rifles, and some of us were also carrying pistols.

So we’re in line, going through one at a time. One of our Soldiers had his Gerber multi-tool. TSA confiscated it. Kind of ridiculous, but it gets better. A few minutes later, a guy empties his pockets and has a pair of nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA informs the Soldier that they’re going to confiscate his nail clippers. The conversation went something like this:

TSA Guy: You can’t take those on the plane.

Soldier: What? I’ve had them since we left country.

TSA Guy: You’re not suppose to have them.

Soldier: Why?

TSA Guy: They can be used as a weapon.

Soldier: [touches butt stock of the rifle] But this actually is a weapon. And I’m allowed to take it on.

TSA Guy: Yeah but you can’t use it to take over the plane. You don’t have bullets.

Soldier: And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?

TSA Guy: [awkward silence]

Me: Dude, just give him your damn nail clippers so we can get the f**k out of here.
I’ll buy you a new set.
Soldier: [hands nail clippers to TSA guy, makes it through security]

This might be a good time to remind everyone that approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns–but nothing that could have been used as a weapon.

Slaves?

With government dominated health care, we’ve lost our rights to determine who, what, when, where and how we’ll decide the most basic issue of human life: what we do with our bodies! Uncle Sugar tells us now that he knows best and he’ll give us what we need -- even force it on us -- whether we want it or not!

Perhaps emboldened by this legislative seizure of personal power, the U.S. Government in the form of Homeland Security and TSA now are moving rapidly to solidify their grip on another aspect of American life. Just as our rights to decide how we will live have been pulled, bit by bit, from our hands under the guise of providing for our ‘health and safety, so now we find that our ‘security’ trumps our legitimate, individual druthers and gives the government almost unlimited control over us as we attempt to peacefully move about the country.

This composite clip from reputable, mainstream news media exemplifies what’s going on and how we are becoming slaves to the whims of our own government. http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/978.html.

As I did when the health care bill was being considered, I again implore you to get up and act before it’s too late! Make noise, resist, rebel, revolt, write letters, do whatever is needed to take back our nation! Remember that those who rose up against tyranny in 1776 were the King’s enemies, but they remain our heroes and we continue to refer to them as patriots. Nothing has changed since then except our willingness to submit. Stand up America!

Robert B. Greene

TSA is out of Control

The government is doing what it does best - it's lying.
"There is no problem."
The media is doing what it does best - it's presenting the story in a fragmentary, dismissive way.
NO ONE is putting all the pieces together.
This is a much bigger story than just Nazi-like behavior at the airports.
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Even this video just scratches the surface - and please share this page with your friends.
And be a real American: STOP FLYING