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- July 13, 2008: As for airport security in China….
- July 13, 2008: U.S. woman sues airport security 2
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As for airport security in China….
July 13, 2008 by admin.
Security in Beijing all over the city is incredible - police and army everywhere…Beijing has got to be the safest city in the world right now, and it was incredibly safe before! When I came in to the Beijing airport this past Tuesday afternoon, it was obvious that there was security everywhere, but it was non-threatening, as opposed to the atmosphere in most U.S. airports these days. The Western media tends to demonize the Chinese government for everything, sometimes with good reason, but the contrast between the behavior of Chinese airport security and that in the United States is almost unbelievable. We as Americans are brainwashed to believe that we are the freest country in the world, so we are led to believe that everything that our government and police do is in line with keeping our country and our people free, when in fact it is the exact opposite. (That’s right, we are brainwashed too, just as we accuse the Chinese government of doing to its citizens. ) Drive your car without wearing your seatbelt in the U.S.? Illegal, and you can be arrested. Carry an open can of beer down the street? Illegal in most places, and you can easily wind up in jail. I am certainly no apologist for China and there is much that is wrong here, but the United States seems to be headed towards becoming a fascist country while China is rapidly heading in the other direction. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 have sadly become an excuse for the American government and law enforcement to take complete and utter control of every little aspect of our lives. Let’s just hope that we as Americans are smart enough to turn things around before it is too late.
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U.S. woman sues airport security 2
July 13, 2008 by admin.
Here’s an even better video of the ridiculous airport beatdown, showing everything that happened…what has happened to the United States of America? Land of the Free? Not so much anymore…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcCmmaCqZhg
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U.S. woman sues airport security
July 13, 2008 by admin.
As a follow-up to my last post, a couple of days ago on Yahoo I watched this story:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=8772855
It would be funny if it was not perfectly representative of the prevailing attitudes of the TSA and most airport security people in the United States today. This poor woman did nothing wrong (other than to possibly verbally express her objections to what was going on - apparently airport security has never heard of the First Amendment, I believe that one has not been overturned….yet).
In the video, the defense attorney’s arguments in favor of what airport security did are disgusting, she should be ashamed of herself for even attempting to defend what they did - in a court of law that would be her duty as a lawyer, but on television she is only saying what she is saying to get camera time. She is exactly the type of lawyer that gives all lawyers a bad name.
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