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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #500 on: November 27, 2010, 10:40:43 AM »
Americans may be blase' now; they won't be when the surveillance spreads to trains, boats, buses, subways, and random auto-stops.
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #501 on: November 27, 2010, 12:02:24 PM »
Americans may be blase' now; they won't be when the surveillance spreads to trains, boats, buses, subways, and random auto-stops.

Hell, backscatter won't even need a "stop". Just a roll through checkpoint.  Maybe under the guise of DUI checkpoints or construction.

Private boats are already subject to search under the guise of safety inspections.  The USCG can and has stopped me before without cause, other than just being on the water.  And now as part of their standard questioning they ask if you have a gun.  Horror stories abound of legal gun owning citizens being detained and questioned for simply bringing their firearm onboard a boat.
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #502 on: November 27, 2010, 12:38:27 PM »
i've heard s few of those stories
but only a few
they use that scanning on containerized freight  has to move pretty slow
It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #503 on: November 27, 2010, 12:51:28 PM »
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Horror stories abound of legal gun owning citizens being detained and questioned for simply bringing their firearm onboard a boat.

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« Reply #504 on: November 27, 2010, 01:40:22 PM »
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave

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Are you aware of the amount of water that is controlled by the Corps of Engineers?  There are even some places where the land up to the water line is state park and carry/possession of firearms is legal, but if you walk out on a dock or otherwise cross the line you are committing a federal felony.

And Maryland, as an example, owns the Potomac river up to the high-tide line of the Virginia shore.  Look up the gambling casinos that used to operate just over the water and outside the municipal/state territory of Colonial Beach, Virginia.  The gambling is gone but the booze rules change from one state to the other.

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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #505 on: November 27, 2010, 01:49:00 PM »
still some gambling in colonial beach on the pier
It is much more powerful to seek Truth for one's self.  Seeing and hearing that others seem to have found it can be a motivation.  With me, I was drawn because of much error and bad judgment on my part. Confronting one's own errors and bad judgment is a very life altering situation.  Confronting the errors and bad judgment of others is usually hypocrisy.


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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #506 on: November 27, 2010, 02:17:04 PM »
Are you aware of the amount of water that is controlled by the Corps of Engineers?  There are even some places where the land up to the water line is state park and carry/possession of firearms is legal, but if you walk out on a dock or otherwise cross the line you are committing a federal felony.

It's really long past time for a revolution.  :mad:

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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #507 on: November 27, 2010, 04:55:30 PM »
Americans may be blase' now; they won't be when the surveillance spreads to trains, boats, buses, subways, and random auto-stops.

But Longeyes, you know full well that using the public roads is a privilege, not a right! When you applied for your driver's license, you already agreed to the rectal exam.
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« Reply #508 on: November 27, 2010, 07:04:52 PM »
Government should not be a form of colonoscopy.
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #509 on: November 27, 2010, 07:57:18 PM »
Government should not be a form of colonoscopy.

More and more, colonoscopy seems to be an adequate name for our form of government.
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #510 on: November 28, 2010, 11:58:42 AM »
More and more, colonoscopy seems to be an adequate name for our form of government.

Well, there are certainly some substances common to both  =(
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #511 on: November 28, 2010, 03:08:37 PM »
rubber gloves and whiskey? ???

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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #512 on: November 28, 2010, 04:13:29 PM »
rubber gloves and whiskey? ???
Some might call that a recipe for a good date. 
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #513 on: November 28, 2010, 05:07:55 PM »

rubber gloves and whiskey? ???

Some might call that a recipe for a good date. 

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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #514 on: November 28, 2010, 05:10:52 PM »
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #515 on: November 29, 2010, 12:45:24 PM »
rubber gloves and whiskey? ???

I was referring to the brown stuff...  ;/
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #516 on: November 29, 2010, 12:53:03 PM »
and i was makin' with the funny. ;/

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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #517 on: November 29, 2010, 03:01:55 PM »
Welcome to the Proctarchy!
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« Reply #518 on: December 03, 2010, 05:21:19 PM »
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« Reply #519 on: December 03, 2010, 05:38:19 PM »
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« Reply #520 on: December 03, 2010, 10:42:12 PM »
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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #521 on: December 03, 2010, 11:46:46 PM »
Americans may be blase' now; they won't be when the surveillance spreads to trains, boats, buses, subways, and random auto-stops.

Doubt that. DUI checkpoints have conditioned people to accept random checkpoints.

We who see the grave threat to liberty are in the minority. This anger over the scanners and TSA employees copping feels? It'll soon be forgotten, I think.



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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #522 on: December 04, 2010, 02:15:16 AM »

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Re: TSA Super Thread
« Reply #523 on: December 04, 2010, 09:17:14 AM »


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« Reply #524 on: December 04, 2010, 10:43:13 AM »
Doubt that. DUI checkpoints have conditioned people to accept random checkpoints.

We who see the grave threat to liberty are in the minority. This anger over the scanners and TSA employees copping feels? It'll soon be forgotten, I think.

I would expect DUI checkpoints to even be used as part of the scheme.  A few TSA guys and a mobile backscatter van along with local LEO's conducting DUI checks. 
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