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I am desperately unhappy to tell you that after rward latest truly psychotic diatribe – which I fully expected – his registration has been cancelled.
You can’t always tell who will be able to make a success out of their new lives in Costa Rica but I certainly hope that rward is very happy living on the Osa Peninsula somewhere… Preferably in a very, very, very remote area far away from any human beings or any other living creature.
Puravida!
Scott
one word: ZYPREXA!!!
i thought he doesn’t live here. . . yet. isn’t he coming down to check it out with George? maybe you should warn him.
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and no, david, i don’t advocate psychiatric drugging for anyone. . . except in this case!! jejeje clearly the man is in need of a stabilizer.[/quote]Maravilla . . . Maravilla . . .Maravilla! Whatever has become of your philosophical purity? Will we next learn that there is a place in this world for agricultural chemicals?
leave my food alone! agricultural chemicals are destroying the planet. read about Navdanya and Vandana Shiva. that’s where i’m coming from.
[quote=”aguirrewar”]The Chinese built a stadium worth $100 million for FREE in exchange to sever ties with Taiwan and that was after more than 30 years of recognizing Taiwan and taking their $$ thanks to Oscar Arias a (Nobel Prize winner).[/quote]
for FREE, uh, I don’t think so! Have you seen the Chinese fishing fleet plying the Pacific coast? They are not here hoping to catch a futbol game or Shakira concert on TV, I can assure you!
I’ve never had any trouble with security at airports. They are just doing a boring almost degrading job that no one in their right mind would take. I just smile and be polite, tell them I understand they have to do what they have to do and I generally get treated nice. Insult them and give them a hard time and you will get treated the way YOU deserve.
I used to work in Nuclear Power plants and you go through the same stuff EVERY DAY. Same kind of guys. After one security guard shot out the window in the reception area playing “quick draw” and was still there the next day employed and bragging about it to the receptionist I figured they hired the guys that failed the psych tests as security guards. After having a gun pointed at me one too many times while being properly escorted by a plant employee I quit and refused to go back to that plant. . . The TSA folks are a joy in comparison.
OBTW – When you work in nuclear you end up in mixed company in your skivvies every day exiting the hot work areas after stripping off your anti-contamination clothing. Get contaminated and you may not even have your skivvies as they check and decontaminate you. . . Its not a pretty sight as about 50% of the workers are old flabby construction types (like me). Makes the daily entry searches a minor thing.
So don’t joke about everyone flying naked!
OFF THEIR MEDS: I had to ban a user from my forums this year. First time in a decade but I should have booted the guy years earlier. I think the problem WAS his meds. Lots of late night psychotic rants. We have open forums so I had to do it by a combination of IP and DNS addresses (a little technical and I had to write the code – all because of ONE guy).
One rant had to do about someone calling him a Yankee and how he thought it was insulting. We reminded him of all the positive uses of the term, “Yankee ingenuity, THE Yankees (ball team), Yankee Drill (a neat invention), Yankee Clipper (the great sailing ships made in New England). Things spiraled out of control into a flame war. After banning the guy he went on any forum he could find to call ME a so and so. . .
Imagine being behind THIS guy in line at airport security when he calls the TSA folks some derogatory term (and people do EVERY DAY), then gets treated poorly. . . . and a good chance you will too because you are one of THEM (the flying public and associated with the guy in front of you).
Smile, be friendly and courteous to them and they will usually be the same to you.
I’ve been gone from the Forum for a bit…..who the heck IS this person with these vitriolic posts? It is almost possible to see spittle flying from the lips of this rant. Geez….
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Smile, be friendly and courteous to them and they will usually be the same to you.[/quote]
Are you going to smile and say thank you when the TSA is fondling your genitals or blasting you with harmful X-rays?
This is the kind of behavior tyrannical governments engineer in the public so as to get a foot in the door, or any other crevice in their presence.
The airplane is a communal area and nobody should be against open inspection of property, conversation or any other notions of privacy that apply to private space. Let them x-ray and rifle through my luggage but I do not want to see them doing the same with my body. If you are in the public plaza, you have a right to the integrity of your physical person. Only slaves do not have this right.
No authority should exist to violate your body. And this is exactly what the TSA is doing right now. They will ramp this up to the next level. They are training a society into submissive behavior for more oppressive management.
My point is that it is NOT the lowest level security personell whom you are dealing with that you should complain to. THEY are just doing their jobs.
Complaints should go to the President, Congress and others who set such idiotic policy.
If you are worried about radiation (X-rays and others) then don’t fly at all. At high altitude you get as much radiation exposure as from a typical medical x-ray in a 4 hour flight. In fact the type of radiation at high altitude (Gamma rays AKA cosmic radiation) is more energetic than X-rays and more likely to produce genetic changes resulting in cancers. Airline pilots and flight attendants get many more times the radiation exposure that is allowed for nuclear plant workers. . .
The war on terrorism is much like the war on drugs. A total misguided failure. To stop illegal drugs you have to stop the demand, not the supply OR make drugs legal. To stop terrorism you have to stop making enemies. The US policies in the middle east for the past 60 years have made a LOT of enemies. The US anti-communist policies where we supported despotic dictators all over the world made us a lot of enemies.
The acts of 9/11 will never happen again. Passengers will take down any plane as they did on Flight 93 rather than let themselves be used as a WMD. Cargo transports are a completely different issue. The next terrorist attack will be something different. It does not take much imagination to come up with some horrific things based on simple everyday items. I will not list examples in an open forum. It may not take much imagination but I don’t think the bad guys have a lot of imagination. . .
Meanwhile, you ARE right about intrusive searches governmental abuses of fundamental liberty and privacy. But complaining to the wage-slaves is not the way to change it.
[quote=”guru”]My point is that it is NOT the lowest level security personell whom you are dealing with that you should complain to. THEY are just doing their jobs.
Meanwhile, you ARE right about intrusive searches governmental abuses of fundamental liberty and privacy. But complaining to the wage-slaves is not the way to change it.[/quote]The higher-ups to whom you suggest we complain are not reachable and they are not answerable to us anyway. They do as they please as long as wage slaves do their bidding. The Owners, the slave masters, are insulated by layers of people and bureaucrats. They have presidents and senators as purchased puppets. They have corporations which have more rights than real people. And at the bottom, where the abuse takes on a visceral quality, they have the ignorant, and many times, completely brainwashed wage slaves to do the dirty work.
At some point, some people become awake and aware of their enslavement and all the degrading treatment that comes with it. I look for a level of irritation to be reached.
The question is: does that level of irritation rise to the quality of revolution in time to make a difference or do the slave masters win again? These fascist tyrannies come about in increments, step by step. Do you smile and accept the smaller tyrannies because it is easier right now than fighting back? This is how you boil a frog; by increasing the water temperature only a little bit at a time until it is too late for the frog to jump out of the pot.
The waters around us are already making little bubbles and yet people still think a smile and a stern letter to their corrupted congress representative will fix things. It looks hopeless to my eyes. People will not grow up and wake up. My solution is to bow out, get off the grid as much as possible and, along the way to that end, treat the wage slaves of the TSA with as much contempt as ignorance and tyranny deserve. You go ahead and smile if you like as you bend over.
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