On Apr 3, 6:32 pm, Igor The Terrible
mad.scientist.com> wrote:

One of the unfortunate side effects of 9/11 was that outfits like The
Dept. of Homeland Security, TSA, BATF and everybodys State Police were
suddenly being staffed with thousands of Col. Flagg types who have
been in a desperate search for something to do ever since. The Bush
administration hired them, minimally trained them, gave them Apache
attack helicopters, machine guns, tanks, armored personel carriers,
all manner of personal protection from everything from C4 to Athrax to
radioactivity, high tech crap they clearly didn't understand, private
jails where normal ideas of law apparently didn't apply, hundreds and
hundreds of millions of dollars and a legal "ticket to ride." Then
none of that overpriced crap was needed so they started preying on the
general population at airports or wherever they could find them,
either to stay in practice or just for fucking kicks. They've Tasered
pregnant women, had quite a few people die in their custody, they've
strip searched 80 old women and 7 year old girls, fondled pretty
women, removed nipple rings, turned airports into human dog kennels
and generally menaced everybodys liberty while preventing absolutely
nothing. They have yet to stop any attack and the few times when the
gubmint itself has tried to sneak terror type stuff through the system
to test it, they have had little or no problem doing it. Maybe the
government wasn't "hot" enough to warrant closer investigation.

Or maybe that's how "The Wind" wants things to be.