TSA making US a police state

The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it’s checkpoints and roadblocks.

This callous disregard for travelers’ rights merely paraphrases the words of Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano, who shares, with the president, ultimate responsibility for all TSA travesties since 2009. In November 2010, with the groping policy only a few weeks old, Napolitano dismissed complaints by saying “people [who] want to travel by some other means” have that right. (In other words: if you don’t like it, don’t fly.)

But now TSA is invading travel by other means, too. No surprise, really: as soon as she established groping in airports, Napolitano expressed her desire to expand TSA jurisdiction over all forms of mass transit. In the past year, TSA’s snakelike VIPR (Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have been slithering into more and more bus and train stations – and even running checkpoints on highways – never in response to actual threats, but apparently more in an attempt to live up to the inspirational motto displayed at the TSA’s air marshal training center since the agency’s inception: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”
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Well, I will not be dominated, intimidated, or controlled.  Nor will I be deterred from my inalienable right to travel freely.  That road leads only down… if tolerated, it eventually leads to suffering invasion of privacy and loss of Liberty, even in one’s own home.

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YOU DID SEE THIS COMING, RIGHT?
Soon, you will see it here in the US…again. 

(UK Telegraph)  “Struggling” European banks could be seized and controlled by Brussels as part  of secret plans being drawn up, it has emerged.

Politicians hope the proposals, which would be funded by a new tax on banks,  will stem the rapid escalation in the debt crisis witnessed in recent weeks.  The plan is being formulated alongside Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s   desire for a guarantee on bank deposits.  The annual levy would be placed into a “deposit guarantee scheme”,   with the fund – backed by the EU, ECB or European Stability Mechanism – also   having the power to take over struggling banks.

Posted by Tenth Amendment

by Andrew Napolitano

What if Memorial Day reminds us of times when we had more freedom? What if freedom is dying right under our eyes? What if the memory of the past is more fulfilling than the reality of the present?

What if the federal government could write any law, regulate any behavior and tax any event, no matter what the Constitution authorized? What if the majority in Congress rejects the idea of limited government and views the Constitution as granting it blanket power to do whatever it can get away with? What if the constitutional prohibition on the government’s taking of life, liberty or property without due process of law is only for show and is not for real?

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