His anger is because TSA is not a military or police organization, they are glorified mall cops. Strictly speaking, they are civilians. Beyond that, he sees the TSA as a symbol of the new wave of domestic surveillance and policing at the expense of civil rights. He's not entirely wrong either, I have spent the last two and a half weeks traveling abroad and have passed through customs and immigration several times. It is honestly less of a hassle to fly between two non-US countries than it is to fly between states.
Yeah, you're still missing the point. You, and your contact, are grossly exagerating the importance of this. You are taking an attempt to show some fucking respect, and painting it as a bad thing because it's TSA agents. Not the director of the TSA making political hay about it, not an attempt at garnering public support for the TSA by looking good, this was INDIVIDUAL TSA AGENTS TRYING TO SHOW RESPECT TO A FALLEN HERO IN THEIR OWN WAY.
Are you getting that? The only reason I'm seeing a photo of TSA agents trying to be decent towards a fallen hero is because YOU POSTED IT HERE. It's because your mate took the photo. Which, don't get me wrong, I think he's got every right to do, and you've got every right to post here.
But you're fighting the wrong battles, and you're fighting them for the wrong reasons. Couple of years ago, we had a big ding-dong in Norway over the Data Retention Directive. There was a big fight to stop it, and the rethoric used was inflamatory.
You know what? They lost any potential support for their position when they started talking about a police state and treason. I saw some of the TV debates on it, the oponents looked and sounded like mad idiots who couldn't string a coherent sentence together to save their own lives. The proponents sounded reasonable and their arguments were well-formed.
Norway didn't adapt the directive because the government did what it wanted to do, it did so because any meaningful support in the general Norwegian public was scared away by stupid rethoric and bad arguments.
You're fighting the wrong battles and you're fighting them for the wrong reasons. You'll loose that way. Just saying.
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My brain is full of fuck.
This makes me want to jam a coat hanger in my year in an attempt to scrape the stupid off my brain.
Someone should be leaving coat hangers at his rallies. Someone should be buying thousands of coat hangers and wave them at his campaign meetings.
Anyone doing it? If not, why not? I believe there's a lot of women in the US, and even a lot of men who agree with them. Where's the coat hangers? Where are they? You think this guy gets to control the news once he's been filmed enough times with women waving coat hangers? You think it'll leave the national spotlight? Do it.