Flying? Ask the daddy government for permission first.
While reading this excellent Paul Craig Roberts article, one statement caught my eye:
Now the Bush administration wants to take away the American people’s freedom to travel within their own country by airplane. Not content with an 80,000 “no fly” list, a subset of a 500,000–750,000 “watch list,” the Bush administration’s Transport Security Administration has proposed new rules that will require Americans to get government permission 72 hours in advance prior to being allowed to board a domestic flight.
Oh, he must be misstating something. Not even King George could think he has the right to restrict American citizens domestic travel…right?
Oops:
US demands air passengers ask its permission to fly
Under new rules proposed by the Transport Security Administration (TSA), all airline passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through, or over the United States regardless of citizenship or the airline’s national origin.
How long before we have Checkpoint Charlies at every major highway crossing between states? And worse yet, how many cowed Faux News watchers would welcome it, because Daddy Government is “protecting” them?
October 25th, 2007 at 6:41 am
why isn’t this on the front page of every media organ in the nation?
and why is TSA, a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, dictating what we can, and can not, do?
October 25th, 2007 at 11:14 am
ACLU’s Barry Steinhardt quoted press reports of 500,000 to 750,000 people on the watch list (of which the no-fly list is a subset). “If there are that many terrorists in the US, we’d all be dead.”
dude, there are 8 million dicks in New York City alone…