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

>> On Apr 3, 7:05 pm, Joe yahoo.com> wrote:

>

>>>http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/PoliceState.html

>

>> Only for while.  Soon they won't be able to afford to do that!  :D

>
> 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.