Congrats to the postal workers of America, there finally exists a group of federal employees that's lazier than you.
One Brave Mofo
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I also have to wonder at the hostile attitude expressed for someone who is allegedly just trying to draw attention to themselves. I wonder if movies like Jackass 1 thru 3 (more?) make these same individuals catatonic with apoplexy. Maybe so.
I shudder to think what the TSA will come up with if some knucklehead tries to blow up a plane by sticking explosives up his ass.
Careful, man. Otherwise, you might find one of these babies hovering outside your bathroom window.
A quote from this piece:
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That's the whole reason for the intrusive pat-downs on grandma and body cavity searches on 5 year olds: They're conditioning us for the police state. Much the same way you hold a puppy by his paws and place your hands over their mouths when they are young, to condition them for the handling they will receive.
Wow, it's shocking how little most people care about their rights.
Government has a tendency to do whatever it can get away with. If you allow them to violate your right to travel, your right to remain silent, your right to not have your "papers" with you at all times, and your right to be secure from unlawful search and seizure -- what's next?
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot -- none of them began killing millions immediately. Are we definitely heading to that point, no of course not -- but why leave it open as a possibility? Peacefully stand up for yourself and exercise your rights now while you still can. Or...WTF... don't ridicule the people willing to take a stand.
What Phil Mocek accomplish?
Government has a tendency to do whatever it can get away with. If you allow them to violate your right to travel, your right to remain silent, your right to not have your "papers" with you at all times, and your right to be secure from unlawful search and seizure -- what's next?
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot -- none of them began killing millions immediately. Are we definitely heading to that point, no of course not -- but why leave it open as a possibility? Peacefully stand up for yourself and exercise your rights now while you still can. Or...WTF... don't ridicule the people willing to take a stand.
What Phil Mocek accomplish?
For those of you barking about him just being some dumbass kid trying to cause trouble, perhaps you're right, but you're missing the point.
The fact that he won the case, *might*, just might deter a small percentage of future scenarios in which someone who is innocently using a video camera from getting it taken off them/destroyed etc etc.. I can see a scenario where an 8 year old girl is recording in the airport and some douchebag TSA asshole ripping it off her.
Maybe this could be a push for airlines to to send out a fucking memo, "People can use video cameras in publicly accessible areas of the airport. Thank you." If they don't want certain areas of the airport to be recorded, restrict those areas. Simple.
The fact that he won the case, *might*, just might deter a small percentage of future scenarios in which someone who is innocently using a video camera from getting it taken off them/destroyed etc etc.. I can see a scenario where an 8 year old girl is recording in the airport and some douchebag TSA asshole ripping it off her.
Maybe this could be a push for airlines to to send out a fucking memo, "People can use video cameras in publicly accessible areas of the airport. Thank you." If they don't want certain areas of the airport to be recorded, restrict those areas. Simple.
To those who don't like the TSA:
You cannot vote for slave-masters, and complain when they install dogs to herd us.
To those who are fine with the TSA: never mind. You are already lost.
This this this.
If you can't see the inherent populist value in an exercise like this, I have to say that you are out of touch with human history and your species as a whole. Sorry.
Take a time out and read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Then pick up a book on the history of feudalism in Europe. Or China. Or India. Or Egypt. Or Mexico. Or pretty much anywhere.
Rights are the exception in history, not the rule. And if douchebags like this don't exercise them then we all lose them. And when that happens you'll be on the losing end of it too, wishing some douchebag that you used to make fun of had done something to protect your precious rights that you had always taken for granted.
Tyranny doesn't just show up one day on your doorstep and kick you in the teeth. It creeps slow so you learn to accept it, enjoy it, and even defend it to the point of calling people like this douchebags.
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FUCK YOU. We have laws for a reason, to safeguard our rights and stop people in power from fucking us over. 'being an ass' is not grounds for having your rights taken away. He wasn't doing anything illegal, therefore they should have stayed the fuck away from him.
It's people like you that fuck everything up. If everyone stood their ground like the guy in the video there would be no TSA bullshit. Imagine if everyone refused to fly because of the TSA, JUST ONE DAY of boycotting the airlines would cripple the entire industry.
Know your laws and don't take the easy way out. Most of you are Americans, take advantage of the fact that you live in a litigious society and have a written codified constitution.
Boycotts have their place, but a much better solution is for all those people who are flying to take ten minutes and write letters to their Senators and Representatives telling them to vote the TSA out of existence or they will actively campaign against them next election season.
No reason to immediately punish the airline industry for something they have no choice but to execute.
Unfortunately, Freedom was given through bloodshed.... history has proven that. It's the only way to make a real change.
Peaceful protest and/or arguing doesn't solve much these days.
Peaceful protest and/or arguing doesn't solve much these days.
Airports in the US may be government owned, but they are filled with people working for private corporations who have every right not to be filmed while they do their jobs. You can't film in a grocery store so what makes you think you'll be filming at an airport? If an airport doesn't want you filming, you won't be filming. They can set whatever rules they want to set. If you don't like them, don't fly. That is your right after all, freedom to choose. Film is also a great way to reconnaissance a location and do research on possible security weaknesses so it's kind of a no brainer that it might be frowned upon in a high security location.
You guys are fucking funny. You think you should be allowed to do what you want, where you want, when you want and fuck everyone else. "Do away with the TSA!!!" and then what? Replace them with what? Or would you prefer that there were no security checks when moving airside at an airport? You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Everyone bitches and moans about airport security but if there's an attack then they'll be bitching and moaning that not enough is being done (see Russia for example). You can't have it both ways.
Shut the fuck up, do what they say, and move through the security checkpoint as quickly and efficiently as possible because you're holding up the line. Is that so difficult?
You guys are fucking funny. You think you should be allowed to do what you want, where you want, when you want and fuck everyone else. "Do away with the TSA!!!" and then what? Replace them with what? Or would you prefer that there were no security checks when moving airside at an airport? You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Everyone bitches and moans about airport security but if there's an attack then they'll be bitching and moaning that not enough is being done (see Russia for example). You can't have it both ways.
Shut the fuck up, do what they say, and move through the security checkpoint as quickly and efficiently as possible because you're holding up the line. Is that so difficult?
The point is that he wasn't doing anything wrong, and the TSA gave him a hassle for it. This is just a video, and a non-issue in the grand scheme but IF we'd lose our right to film in public places, we'd also be losing the right to film the potential atrocities that arise in those public places. I don't know about you, but I think that's a mighty thing to lose.
Exactly what I think ^^
I hardly doubt many people will complain about being able to take video in airports if that became law.
In many cities it has became illegal to smoke in public indoor areas, but they didnt take away your right to smoke in your own private area like your car, house, etc. They also did away with smoking on planes and in the lavatories for a reason as well.
All in all, certain laws limit what you can do when your somewhere but it doesnt prevent you from doing the same thing elsewhere in another area. Hardly doubt in a few years these things will lead to us all being under Stalin or Hitler.
A lot of you all are just fucking spoiled as hell. I bet 90% of you never served in the military or did any kind of political work to make a change in your life other then voting. If you havent put in work to actively defend or actively work on a campaign, then your nothing but a fucking cry baby pussy when someone takes away your supposed "right" to do something. Your nothing better then someone that got "handed" something or inherited something and then cry like some fags when you think someone is trying to take something away from you.
On the other hand, if you have served in the military or done something of value campaign wise, then the above statement was not for you. If you haven't worked for freedom or "rights" yourself, then you only got something handed to you out of luck and I could care less what you whine about. Just cause you were born here and leeched off the system others set up for you to your benefit, doesn't mean I wanna here you whine about something the government changed that you never worked for anyways.
If people didn't stand up for what was earned by our ancestors, what the fuck did they fight for? You think because you somehow fought/took part in the system that you're more entitled to use it? Bitch please.
^^ wut? Nigga plz. Your no better then the people that didnt work a fucking day in their life that are on welfare and goverment support and then cry when people wanna take it away from you or change the benefits to be not in your favor.
You didn't work for anything, you didn't try to provide value and now your crying that your handout might be changed or altered. Nigga plz, get the fuck out of my country you peasant bitch.
If you didn't work for it, you got a handout.. its as simple as that. Stop trying to talk your way out of it and keep leeching off the system.
Plus it says your Location is Canada, so why the fuck in this topic anyway? You all get everything handed to you anyways, so I wouldn't expect you to understand really.
Besides, stop going off topic. I never said anyone was more entitled to anything. I said I don't wanna here those idiots bitching and whining over what amounts to a handout for most of them. Stop trying to exercise "freedom" with TSA at airports when in reality most of them have no fucking clue what freedom is. Half of these dumbass's where prob the same people who rallied for Guantanamo Bay to be closed down/prisoners released. Yeah, way to fight for freedom right there.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955
MLK's speech at Brown in Selma Alabama
The March on Washington.
Any of these things ringing a bell?
^^ have to agree, these were people actively doing something to make a change.. not people taking advantage of a handout because they happened to be born here.