End of the American
Dream

On Monday,
U.S. Senator Rand Paul was detained by the TSA for about two hours
at an airport in Nashville. By doing so, TSA officials directly
violated the U.S. Constitution and they demonstrated once again
why the rest of the world is coming to regard us as a bunch of disgusting,
arrogant “pig people”. Do we really want to get such a bad reputation
that virtually nobody will ever want to visit this country? We are
going to absolutely destroy our tourism industry with this nonsense.
Yes, we all want to fly safely, but other countries get the job
done without their security officials running around acting like
a bunch of Nazi prison guards. The TSA should be shut down, but
if Congress wants it to continue to exist it should be given a dual
mandate. It should be directed to protect the dignity of the American
people first, and the safety of the American people second. If those
running the TSA don’t believe that this is possible, then they should
be immediately replaced, because there are a whole lot of good people
out there that could get the job done. Right now, TSA officials
are treating American citizens like they aren’t even human. The
truth is that Rand Paul got off easy compared to what has happened
to many other Americans. As I have written about previously,
some elderly Americans have been strip-searched, some have had their
adult diapers removed, and some have even been left covered in urine
by invasive TSA searches. If the TSA will treat Senator Rand Paul
like a scumbag, and if they will brutally strip-search elderly women,
than what do you think they are going to do to you
when the time comes?

I don’t know
about you, but I did not sign up to live in
North Korea.

I signed up
to live in America.

But the country
we are living in does not look much like America anymore.

It is as if
the U.S. Constitution does not even matter anymore.

When TSA thugs
detained Senator Rand Paul, they directly violated the U.S. Constitution,
and nobody in the mainstream media seems upset by this.

Fortunately,
many in the alternative media have taken note of this constitutional
violation. The following is from an article by
Steve Watson….

The Constitution
specifically protects federal lawmakers from being detained while
en route to Washington DC.

Article
I, Section 6 states:

“The
Senators and Representatives…shall in all Cases, except Treason,
Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during
their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and
in going to and returning from the same….”

Rand
Paul was travelling from his home in Louisville to attend a session
in the Senate today.

The TSA is
publicly saying that “normal
procedure” was followed during the episode involving Senator
Rand Paul. He was detained in a small cubicle for approximately
two hours after he inadvertently set off a scanner alarm.

A Daily
Caller article described what happened to Senator Paul when
he attempted to leave the cubicle that he was being held in….

“I tried
to leave the cubicle to speak to one of the TSA people and I was
barked at: ‘Do not leave the cubicle!’ So, that, to me sounds
like I’m being asked not to leave the cubicle. It sounds a little
bit like I’m being detained.”

That is how
TSA agents are trained to behave. They are trained to bark orders
at us. It doesn’t even matter if you are a U.S Senator apparently.

TSA agents
on the scene wanted to subject Senator Paul to an “enhanced pat-down”
during which his genitals would be touched. Understandably, Senator
Paul did not want to submit to such a humiliating inspection….

“For
an hour and a half, they said ‘absolutely, I would have to [accept
a pat-down],’” Paul said. “And, because I used my cell phone,
they told me I would have to do a full body pat down because you’re
not allowed to use your cell phone when you’re being detained.”

Thankfully,
Senator Paul was eventually allowed to go back through the original
scanner and it did not beep the second time through.

Other travelers
have not been treated so nicely.

When informed
about this incident, the Obama administration was quick to defend
the TSA.

White House
press secretary Jay Carney said the following about the incident….

“I think
it is absolutely essential that we take necessary actions to ensure
that air travel is safe.”

Of course that
is a bunch of nonsense. Dozens of other countries have a far better
air security record than we do and yet they do not subject their
citizens to this kind of abuse.

Rand Paul’s
father, presidential candidate Ron Paul, issued a statement which
strongly condemned the actions of the TSA….

“The
police state in this country is growing out of control. One of
the ultimate embodiments of this is the TSA that gropes and grabs
our children, our seniors, and our loved ones and neighbors with
disabilities. The TSA does all of this while doing nothing to
keep us safe.”

Hopefully this
will become a major issue during the race for the Republican nomination.

Instead of
spending all of our time discussing Mitt Romney’s taxes or Newt
Gingrich’s “skeletons”, we should be spending a lot more time talking
about how the United States of America is rapidly being transformed
into a totalitarian police state.

It is absolutely
disgusting what some Americans are being forced to endure just to
get on a flight.

During
a Congressional hearing in 2011, Senator Paul expressed outrage
over the fact that TSA agents are feeling up the private areas of
little girls in the name of “national security”….

“You’ve
gone overboard and you’re missing the boat on terrorism because
you’re doing these invasive searches on six-year-old girls.”

And you know
what?

What the federal
government does sets an example for the rest of the nation.

Over in
Stark County Ohio a couple of years ago, it was documented that
police strip-searched female suspects until they were fully naked,
recorded them on video and then left them naked in their cells for
up to six hours.

Of course all
of that was done in the name of “keeping us safe”, right?

Some example
we are setting for the rest of the world, eh?

Our country
is going downhill so fast that it is hard to find words to describe
it.

A lot of us
are not flying anymore because we don’t want the TSA examining our
private parts, but now the TSA is bringing its own special brand
of “security” to thousands of other locations across the United
States as the Los Angeles Times recently
detailed….

The Transportation
Security Administration isn’t just in airports anymore. TSA teams
are increasingly conducting searches and screenings at train stations,
subways, ferry terminals and other mass transit locations around
the country.

“We are
not the Airport Security Administration,” said Ray Dineen, the
air marshal in charge of the TSA office in Charlotte. “We take
that transportation part seriously.”

The TSA’s
25 “viper” teams – for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response
– have run more than 9,300 unannounced checkpoints and other search
operations in the last year. Department of Homeland Security officials
have asked Congress for funding to add 12 more teams next year.

Who ever thought
that we would see the day when “VIPER teams” were running around
all over America setting up internal security checkpoints?

Even if you
just sit home all day there is still a good chance that you will
get the attention of the Department of Homeland Security.

The Department
of Homeland Security has announced that it is now diligently
watching the Internet.

According to
a recent
Fox News article, the Department of Homeland Security has decided
that it is important for them to keep an eye on “forums, blogs,
public websites and message boards”….

Though
still in development, DHS is looking to establish a system for
monitoring “forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.”
The idea is to gather and analyze publicly available information,
and then use that information to help officials respond to disasters
and other situations.

In case you
were wondering, yes, they will probably read this article. Hopefully
it will shame some of them into cleaning up their acts.

This country
is being run by a bunch of psychotic control freaks that are obsessed
with watching, monitoring, tracking and controlling virtually everything
that we do.

Sadly, most
Americans have bought into the lie that unless they give up huge
chunks of liberty and freedom none of us will be safe.

But when we
give these un-American control freaks an inch, they just keep trying
to take a mile.

With our children,
they are starting very early. As I have written about previously,
most of our public schools are being turned into indoctrination
centers and prison camps. Millions upon millions of Americans
children are being trained to be good little slaves and most parents
have no idea what is going on.

America is
supposed to be about freedom and liberty.

It is supposed
to be a place where we don’t have control freaks on our backs 24
hours a day.

But instead
we are becoming the exact opposite of what America is supposed to
be.

No matter how
much liberty and freedom we give up, the world is always going to
be a very dangerous place.

In the future,
there are undoubtedly going to be some very bad things that happen
in our world.

But having
TSA thugs touch the private parts of our women and our children
is not going to prevent any of it from happening.

Instead of
being an example for the rest of the world, we are becoming a bad
joke.

Please wake
up America.

Reprinted
with permission from End
of the American Dream.

January
28, 2012

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© 2012 End
of the American Dream