ENOUGH COMPLACENCY!

Thursday, January 13, 2011
ENOUGH COMPLACENCY
Here is a horror story for you:
Once upon a time… no strike that! Every day at work, some customer (passenger) shakes his head over the intrusions of TSA into his/her rights of person. Then the person next to them (sadly but predictably this is usually a woman) pops up and says something like, “Oh but it makes me feel so much safer!” or “Anything to make us safe.”
Well, personally I am horrified and disgusted by the frequent willingness to give away our rights to privacy of person and the willingness of so many to complacently accept illegal search and seizure.
Complicit in this fiasco is the continual insistence of business to require so many of their employees to fly daily and weekly when such wonderful technology as conference calling and Skype, to name only the two I am acquainted with exist and are available to all. Using these forms of communication would have the end result of lowering costs to the end user and lowering the income of the airlines and airports, thus encouraging them to fire TSA and provide privatized security relying on bomb and drug sniffing dogs and their military or retired military handlers. It is a proposition that would be a save-save and win-win deal all around.
These passengers who allow themselves to ‘feel safer’ by being groped by sulky low-lifes in blue uniform shirts with shiny TSA badges and by exposing themselves to excessive radiation and snickers of contempt or oogles of lust need to wake up!
Realize that:
1. Inherently, hurtling the human body through the air at 30,000 feet at hundreds of miles per hour in a large aluminum shell is not safe.
2. Walking down the street is not ‘safe.’
3. Getting out of bed is not safe. Neither is staying in bed.
4. Eating in a restaurant is not safe.
The best heritage any of us have ever received is our Bill of Rights. Do not give it away to the bureaucrats. Don’t give it back to the government. Do not sacrifice it for a warm and fuzzy false sense of security. Arm yourself with wisdom, with awareness. Learn to use your gut instincts and your other senses. That is what your Creator gave to you and what you are intended to use to help ensure your survival.
If you are willing to give away your rights, go somewhere else to do it. When you do it here, you jeopardize my rights and I will not stand for that. Enough!
The problem-solving intent of my blogs continues. I prefer not to moan about a problem. Complaining solves nothing. Too many complainers exist already. (Listen to talk radio sometime) Although this post is a complaint, it, as you can see, has come to you with a built in solution, and that is what we like to focus on: Solutions.
Coddled Americans are so complacent because we are so spoiled by all of our many advantages and so insulated by our politically correct and over-stimulated and over-entertained lives, that we do not know how to take responsibility for ourselves. We do not know how to be aware. We do not know how to live.
Join the boycott of the airlines and airports until this is resolved. Stop flying. Start driving when you want to travel. Take a cruise ship to another land. Take a train if you can find one. Skype. Conference call. And look at other electronic means of communication. Skype is one of the most accessible and most remarkable around and so easy to use. SKYPE!