Total $@!#head Administration

[Emre Washburn]

I'd much rather have the NEQ be down one freaking radio then any
American be down one brother,sister,mother,father, etc.

If you don't like it, move.

Emre
92 //S4
90 Cq

Patriotic as heck.


On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:44:11 -0400, Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net> wrote:
> 
> So, the NEQ was down a radio at the last event- the president had it
> in his carry-on luggage and the TSA confiscated it.  Naturally, as a
> glasses-wearing-white-haired-grandfather-from-vermont-white-guy type,
> he's a real dangerous type.  He still hasn't been able to get the
> ($160+) radio back- it's probably long since been auctioned off at
> that TSA facility down in Georgia, taken home by someone, or simply
> lost.
> 
> Mind you- it's not even capable of receiving aviation, business, or
> ham frequencies- it's FRS(ie Talkabout)/GMRS(General Mobile Radio
> Service) only...both of which aren't even legally useable by the
> government or businesses.  Why wasn't he allowed to simply check it
> as luggage, after an explosives-swab-check, if they were so worried?
> 
> This is, to me, the straw that broke the camel's back.  The level of
> paranoia in this country is absurd; all the policy/security nazis are
> coming out of the woodwork and inventing the most non-sensical rules
> you've ever seen, and bit by bit some sheep a TV crew dredges up
> happily talks about how it's ok, because it makes him/her feel a
> little bit safer in these "dangerous times".  I remember reading
> about a pregnant mother who was forced to drink her own bottled
> breast milk to "prove" it wasn't a biological agent to some goddamn
> TSA pinhead.  Every day the US is reminding me of tales of 'old
> soviet russia' more and more.  No travel without papers (if Tommy
> Ridge gets his way, you won't even be able to get on the goddamn
> SUBWAY without an ID check AND baggage screening!  WTF?!?).  Can't
> photograph certain things (certain things including landmarks,
> bridges, and most recently, subway systems).  Secret blacklists and
> watchlists.  Undiscloseable searches of library and bookstore
> records.  Anyone, US citizen or not, subject to arrest and indefinite
> detention without any of the protection granted to us by the
> constitution.  The list goes on and on.
> 
> I'm one of the editors of the Gripster(the chapter's newsletter) and
> I think I just hit upon a subject for a nice column.  How The Club
> Lost a Radio To Your Government.
> 
> Of course, then the NE chapter just might end up on a terrorist
> organization list, right?  Hell, maybe I'll end up on one for this
> post, wouldn't that be a gas.
> 
> Siiiigh.  I wonder how much it would cost to move to the Isle of Mann...
> 
> B
> --
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> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
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