For a bunch of folks who live in the largest state in the lower 48 and tout themselves as having the biggest balls of anyone, anywhere, I have to say that you Texas Representatives really SUCK. You bowed to the big ass corporation. At a point and time in this country when all the "sheeple" could really use a guiding light and some direction with regards to standing up for their Fourth Amendment rights, you folded up like a sloppily put together house of cards, tucked tail, pissed the floor and ran home. It has historically taken someone or entity to take the lead and you had a golden opportunity to do just that. Do you retards have even the faintest clue how much support you had in this? I personally read over 140 comments from people around the country and with the exception of a couple of idiots looking for their five seconds of literary fame the support for you was 100%.
YOU CANDY ASSES ! Are you so out of touch with your constituency? Better yet, are they that out of touch with you? The latter comment was directed at ya'all who live in Texas. 2009 Census Bureau report says there's 24,782,302 of you. That's a shit load of voices. How many of you rallied behind the proponents of HB 1937 via phone calls, e-mails, good old fashion pen to paper or even, God forbid you would have to take time out from your precious lives and make a physical appearance to support them? That might have even instilled some form of backbone in them, perhaps given them the impetus to carry on, and maybe, just maybe inspired other states to follow suite. Whatever happened to that "kick dirt or spit on a Texan's boots and your in for a shit storm of hurt." attitude? All blow and no go folks?
The meat of HB 1937 was that it would punish through criminal prosecution those involved in "official oppression by the intrusive touching of persons seeking access to public buildings and transportation." TSA, this would be you. It's about the complete and total disregard for our Fourth Amendment rights under the guise of national security. John Adams said "Those who would trade liberty for security have neither." It's blatantly obvious that the government is seriously functioning under the premise that we're all to damn stupid and incompetent to take care of ourselves so they're going to do it for us. This may be acceptable to all the "Sheeple" in this country but as for me, to this I say; screw you. Get the everlasting hell out of my life. I don't want or need your "protection" at the cost of losing my rights as an American citizen. I'm not the fuc*ing enemy here! Those rights are guaranteed me by the way, in the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, just in case all you politicians aren't familiar with that little document. You know, it's the one you continually bastardize and alter to suit your causes without talking to all us peons, aka your constituents, first.
The Fourth Amendment specifically guards against unreasonable searches and seizure, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. Probable cause is but one of the key terms here but it is a hugely important one. Lets look at the TSA's agent's behavior at your "friendly local airport" aka Stalag 17. They maintain adamantly that they don't profile, that it's all random as to who gets groped and full body scanned in the name of national security. So, the two digit IQ TSA agent with all the common sense of a cantaloupe stands there and "randomly" says "you, you and you into the oven. Oh, sorry, the scanner." That's about as random as an algebraic formula. Random, = ...blindfold them, spin them around five times, stop the spin with their back to the crowd, make them do the hokie pokie and then point over their shoulder and yell; "you, you and you!" Random my ass. I'm all for profiling.
"Probable cause". Now that one went down the shitter! Exactly what probable cause would a TSA agent have to subject a seven year old little girl to a full body pat down or check inside your one year old's diaper? Unless of course they're some kind of scum bag child molester. We teach our children that it's not acceptable for someone to touch you in that manner, oh, unless it's some perverted TSA agent, then that's ok because it's in the interest of National Security. "Just grin and bear it sweetheart." Or pull both my seventy something in-laws out of line, take them into private rooms and search their carry-ons. Dear TSA, a little fuc*ing common sense please. God what have we allowed the government to get to?
It pains me greatly but I do have to come to the airport TSA agents defense in a very mild way. They're people like you and me in the respect that they need a job, need to eat, pay rent etc. Getting pissed at them for doing what their boss tells them to do is akin to yelling at the checker or box person because the store manager priced the store's products high. If we have an issue we need to address it with the higher ups. My guys were famous for that; "Talk to my boss, he's right over there!"
To all of us, don't "We the People" see whats happening in our once great Country? The state of Indiana has virtually dissolved the Fourth Amendment with regards to illegal searches. Texas has acquiesced to the "Powers that Be" and "We the People" as a whole are accepting the fact that the Patriot Act with all it's accouterments is a good for us shit sandwich. I have to confess that I was not the best at communicating with my representatives but I have since rectified that. If I can, so the hell can you. I was an elected official in my small mountain community for six years and discovered the true definition of the term "apathy". People would verbally jump me outside the store, post office, in my car, at my cabin and even at places down the mountain and demand information as to the official goings on. Initially I would try to oblige them but it didn't take very long to get the pat response of "go to a Board of Directors meeting, we have one per month." down. After six years on the Board of Directors I would still get the same thing. People bitching about this and that, basically the same shit except for my response. It had evolved to; "I have sat on the Board for six years and not once have I seen you at a meeting. Don't bother me anymore on my personal time." If I had been paid for my years of service my response would have been completely different but I never received a red cent, not even a good bribe. It was an unpaid position. The point to my little story is that apathy runs rampant in our country. I used to think that my community was the Genesis of apathy but it isn't, it's just a microcosm of a nationwide epidemic.
"We the People" can make changes happen but it sure as hell isn't going to come about by sitting on our collective asses and running off at the mouth about all that we're dissatisfied with. Change doesn't happen overnight, it's a painfully slow process. But are we willing to leave this as our children's and our grand children's legacy; " Here lies _____________ (insert name). Content to sit on his/her do nothing ass and leave us to live under a tyrannical "government"? Nope, not me. Write, call, e-mail, show up at their office, whatever, just do it. Demand answers for your questions, express your wants. Our representatives have a really good gig going on right now. A job that in reality doesn't require too much effort, a nice car allowance, travel expenses, per diem, medical and dental, outrageous paid vacation time and a retirement package I'd probably give one of the boys for. All that can come to a screeching halt if we say so by our vote. "You don't want to listen to us, that's OK, now your dumb ass is out. We'll find someone who will." But it can't happen if we don't make it happen!
I look forward to your comments. Derran
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