The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey resorts to inventing laws in an attempt to stop a passenger from making his flight. Once they realize their efforts are futile, they depend on a private corporation to enforce their imaginary laws. TSA and Port Authority officials convince the head of Jetblue security that the passenger, who was not violating any laws, constitutes a "risk". Jetblue ultimately bans the passenger from ever flying with the airline again.
This incident is a microcosm of the increasingly invasive measures of the government and their increasing dependence on private institutions to enforce their "laws". Mega-giant Wal-Mart recently teamed up with the Department of Homeland Security to implement a program of civilian-to-civilian espionage. Wal-Mart customers are encouraged to spy on and report their neighbors, friends, family, and fellow-citizens and will be exposed to a government message on video screens at check-out counters in a quantum leap of Orwellian methods in the US. A company called Citizen Concepts created a new iPhoneApp insultingly titled "PatriotApp" that allows users to report "suspicious activity" to multiple goverment agencies from their phone.
May we now and forever maintain an attitude of, "DOWN WITH BIG SIS!"
TSA web site policy on video recording: "We don't prohibit public, passengers or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming at screening locations. You can take pictures at our checkpoints as long as you're not interfering with the screening process or slowing things down. We also ask that you do not film or take pictures of our monitors."
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