Like, create a whole other blog just for the fucking TSA. With a proper forum instead of just a comments system though. And instead of the full story being a BB page, the BB headline should link to the TSA blog so you know, all that boiling outrage has some kind of outlet beyond generating comments and smashing trolls.

And then when you’ve finished taking down the TSA, repurpose the online system and activist network and take on a bigger target.  How about capital punishment? Why the fuck not? Get going!

How can I say what I need to say about this, without invoking Godwin’s law?

My point is that the  media gets upset if people are profiled, so the alternative is that it must be done randomly, if it is done randomly, then anyone is subject to search. 

But it smells like charging Lynndie England instead of Donald Rumsfeld.

Shouldn’t it be possible to employ such vigilante tactics against those with a higher degree of responsibility?

Consider Maslov’s hierarchy: folks require basic freedoms before they can consider any dissidence on anyone else’s behalf.

If you’re interpreting Maslow correctly, how would he have accounted for MLK engaging in dissidence on behalf of the Vietnamese?

Make a fucking fist, dammit.

And before anyone challenges me to follow through, let me point out I’m Australian and this isn’t really my problem – but it pisses me off enough from over the Pacific to be enormously frustrated at the total lack of traction everyone who’s righteously hopping mad over this is getting.

Arise, FFS.

And only one of those is what the constitution is mostly about

Is there any reason BB shouldn’t or couldn’t get this ball rolling? My post was directed at the management, in an effort to see the inevitable outrage actually harnessed to something beyond a comment count.

The TSA’s reign of terror represents the beginning of the end of the illusion of freedom Zappa spoke of.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.

That’s pretty notable IMO. It means people are losing the ability to even look like challenging the gatekeepers; legitimate means of redress are evaporating.

Consider Maslov’s hierarchy: folks require basic freedoms before they can consider any dissidence on anyone else’s behalf.

Instead, I was forced into a “private room,” with two male TSA officers, two female TSA officers, the policeman and my husband. They proceeded to search me more thoroughly and I passed out twice more. Again I was refused medical assistance. 

When we arrived in California, I went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. 

I repeatedly tried to get the TSA in Raleigh to do an investigation. I had all the names and badge numbers. The TSA simply refused. I asked my Congresswoman, who said she would look into it but never did, despite repeated requests. 

The Raleigh Airport Police did an investigation and their lawyers sent me a vaguely worded, one-paragraph letter thanking me for pointing out a problem in their department. 

I asked attorneys, but no one would take the case because it’s Constitutional Law vs. a crazy, middle-aged woman (me). The ACLU was too busy. 

I dare all you out there to take action. One person means nothing in this game. Don’t just chat on a blog — do something.

Even if these two have ten times as much money as I do, I would have no problem kicking a few bucks in.

Start posting a few links of authorities who are in a position to right this wrong, so that others could mass-mail a chained letters of responses.

Power to US the People and Power of  The Vote in conjunction with the Internet Voices of Dissent.