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TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive
Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that TSA special agents have served subpoenas to travel bloggers Steve Frischling and Chris Elliott demanding that they reveal who leaked a TSA directive outlining new screening measures that went into effect the same day as the Detroit airliner incident. Frischling said he met with two TSA special agents for about three hours and was forced to hand over his laptop computer after the agents threatened to interfere with his contract to write a blog for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines if he didn't cooperate and provide the name of the person who leaked the memo outlining new security measures that would be apparent to the traveling public. 'It literally showed up in my box,' Frischling told The Associated Press. 'I do not know who it came from.' Frischling says he provided the agents a signed statement to that effect. The leaked directive included measures such as screening at boarding gates, patting down the upper legs and torso, physically inspecting all travelers' belongings, looking carefully at syringes with powders and liquids, requiring that passengers remain in their seats one hour before landing, and disabling all onboard communications systems, including what is provided by the airline. In a December 29 posting on his blog, Elliott said he had told the TSA agents at his house that he would call his lawyer and get back to them."
Except people who choose the 'right' to not pay for health care insurance still show up to doctors offices and hospital emergency wards demanding to be fixed without the ability to actually pay.
You seem to think that everybody who would choose not to pay for health insurance would not have the ability to pay for health care.
Somebody needs to teach you what the insurance racket actually is. Its legalized gambling, and might soon to be required-be-law gambling. Fuck you are all your asshat liberal friends who want to force me to place wagers.
"His name was James Damore."
Let's start with a simple concept. When you discover you have ants crawling all over your food in a cabinet, do you start out looking to negotiate? How about mice? Wolves?
Our position here in the West with regard to Islam is that we are somewhere between ants and mice in their view. We deserve nothing better than death because we are taking up space on their planet, given to them to rule over by Allah. There is no negotiation possible when one side views the other as mindless vermin to be exterminated.
Besides, any "negotiation" is going to be on the grounds of it being OK to lie to non-believers to achieve your objectives according to the Koran. Religion trumps all in this situation, and we are on the losing side. Period.
I believe that a substantial fraction of the US is beginning to be prepared to accept things like "Eat some bacon or don't fly" rules. Religious tolerance is fine, but there are limits and we are beginning to reach them.
The end of the IRA was negotiated because fundamentally both sides could trust the other and it was a matter of finding some acceptable terms. Neither side was solely interested in the extermination of the other. This is not the case with Islam vs. the West and right now, Islam is winning. There is no reason why they would discard their winning hand, no matter how hopeless the end game might seem.