Occam's Banana
04-11-2013, 04:09 PM
At LRC, Becky Akers has a blog post about Congressional objections to the TSA's policy of allowing small pocketknives on planes. The most important observation (which I have bolded) comes at the end - and it applies to a hell of a lot more than just the issue of this particular TSA policy. The vast & monstrously bloated bureaucracy - the "4th branch" of the U.S. government - is the real power in America.
Congress and the Presidency are just distracting sideshows. Mark my words: if there ever comes a day when we get "our people" into Capitol HIll and/or the Oval Office and any genuine, serious & significant attempt is made to seriously curtail the power & purview of the federal bureaucracy, the "4th branch" will bare its fangs and we'll find out just who is really in charge ...
FTA (emphasis mine): http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/135407.html
"A bipartisan group of 133 Congressmen (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/congressmen-seek-withdrawal-of-policy-to-carry-knives-in-planes/article4537421.ece) have called for a withdrawal of the latest US policy that allows air travellers to carry small knifes [sic] in domestic and international flights" in a letter to John "The Pervert" Pistole, Head Deviant at the TSA.
Where were these craven creeps when the agency instituted its groping and irradiating? Or when it traumatized little girls with spina bifida (http://now.msn.com/lucy-forck-three-year-old-with-spina-bifida-singled-out-for-tsa-screening), cerebral palsy (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/tsa-under-fire-mistreatment-7-old-girl-cerebral-164507761.html), or the natural impulse to hug a grandmother (http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-pats-down-4-year-old-after-she-hugs-grandmother-732776)? Or when it brutalized survivors of cancer (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-news/t/tsa-pat-down-leaves-traveler-covered-urine/#.UWbXgnDR0jA)? Where were these elected sociopaths when the TSA slaughtered Rigoberto Alpizar (http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers24.html)? Or the tens of thousands of times its goons preyed on passengers (http://tsanewsblog.com/master-list-of-tsa-abuses-and-crimes/)?
So far as I can recall, few if any of these outrages against us inspired so much as a bleat from Congress' slime. But "allowing" passengers a pocketknife has these dingbats, morons, and criminals up in arms.
Meanwhile, The Perv sails defiantly onward. After nigh a month of bitter controversy and criticism over this slight loosening of the serfs' chains, he continues ignoring Congress as blithely as he ignored the screams of gate-rape's victims. It will be fascinating to see who wins this showdown; I'm betting on The Perv. The bureaucratic regime is far more powerful, shadowy, obscure, and dictatorial than politicians -- and that's a high bar, indeed. Warriors for freedom who regularly battle elected psychos should aim more of their shots at bureaucracies, as I explain here (http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/becky-akers/item/bums-and-bureaucrats) and here. (http://www.travelfreedom.org/2012/06/07/legalizing-theft-and-sexual-assault-by-becky-akers/)
Congress and the Presidency are just distracting sideshows. Mark my words: if there ever comes a day when we get "our people" into Capitol HIll and/or the Oval Office and any genuine, serious & significant attempt is made to seriously curtail the power & purview of the federal bureaucracy, the "4th branch" will bare its fangs and we'll find out just who is really in charge ...
FTA (emphasis mine): http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/135407.html
"A bipartisan group of 133 Congressmen (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/congressmen-seek-withdrawal-of-policy-to-carry-knives-in-planes/article4537421.ece) have called for a withdrawal of the latest US policy that allows air travellers to carry small knifes [sic] in domestic and international flights" in a letter to John "The Pervert" Pistole, Head Deviant at the TSA.
Where were these craven creeps when the agency instituted its groping and irradiating? Or when it traumatized little girls with spina bifida (http://now.msn.com/lucy-forck-three-year-old-with-spina-bifida-singled-out-for-tsa-screening), cerebral palsy (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/tsa-under-fire-mistreatment-7-old-girl-cerebral-164507761.html), or the natural impulse to hug a grandmother (http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-pats-down-4-year-old-after-she-hugs-grandmother-732776)? Or when it brutalized survivors of cancer (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-news/t/tsa-pat-down-leaves-traveler-covered-urine/#.UWbXgnDR0jA)? Where were these elected sociopaths when the TSA slaughtered Rigoberto Alpizar (http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers24.html)? Or the tens of thousands of times its goons preyed on passengers (http://tsanewsblog.com/master-list-of-tsa-abuses-and-crimes/)?
So far as I can recall, few if any of these outrages against us inspired so much as a bleat from Congress' slime. But "allowing" passengers a pocketknife has these dingbats, morons, and criminals up in arms.
Meanwhile, The Perv sails defiantly onward. After nigh a month of bitter controversy and criticism over this slight loosening of the serfs' chains, he continues ignoring Congress as blithely as he ignored the screams of gate-rape's victims. It will be fascinating to see who wins this showdown; I'm betting on The Perv. The bureaucratic regime is far more powerful, shadowy, obscure, and dictatorial than politicians -- and that's a high bar, indeed. Warriors for freedom who regularly battle elected psychos should aim more of their shots at bureaucracies, as I explain here (http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/becky-akers/item/bums-and-bureaucrats) and here. (http://www.travelfreedom.org/2012/06/07/legalizing-theft-and-sexual-assault-by-becky-akers/)