{"id":872,"date":"2011-05-25T19:47:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T02:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T22:42:37","slug":"texas-tells-tsa-to-fuck-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"Texas Republican rebukes TSA; Lt. Governor sides with feds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As some of you know, I quit flying and announced the fact on Tom Sullivan’s national radio show<\/a>. Channel 10 covered\u00c2\u00a0the “protest<\/a>.” There were only three of us at the Sacramento International Airport, and I\u00c2\u00a0was not posturing. I’m completely serious.<\/p>\n

I’ve already looked into booking\u00c2\u00a0passage on ocean freighters as an alternative to flying internationally: http:\/\/www.seatravelltd.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The following\u00c2\u00a0piece from Brasscheck offers\u00c2\u00a0that the sexual humiliation\u00c2\u00a0TSA\u00c2\u00a0routinely inflicts on the public\u00c2\u00a0is similar to what Nazis did to Jews as they were being loaded onto trains. Mark G says that’s not true. I can see how that might be exaggerated, but I don’t think it’s surprising that the Nazis would check people for guns, and when drunk men get too close to\u00c2\u00a0women, weird things can happen. I’ll solicit a response from Mark G, whose opinions I\u00c2\u00a0respect. I kind of like to think the Nasties did it because if they didn’t, that would make TSA more debased than them.<\/p>\n

In any case, I disdain the practices of TSA whether or not any of that\u00c2\u00a0is true.<\/p>\n

The Texas legislature is apparently the only lawmaking body that has even tried to stand\u00c2\u00a0up to TSA in some meaningful way. We can only hope that the other wimpy states\u00c2\u00a0follow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Alabama<\/a><\/td>\nAlaska<\/a><\/td>\nArizona<\/a><\/td>\nArkansas<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
California<\/a><\/td>\nColorado<\/a><\/td>\nConnecticut<\/a><\/td>\nDelaware<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Florida<\/a><\/td>\nGeorgia<\/a><\/td>\nHawaii<\/a><\/td>\nIdaho<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Illinois<\/a><\/td>\nIndiana<\/a><\/td>\nIowa<\/a><\/td>\nKansas<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kentucky<\/a><\/td>\nLouisiana<\/a><\/td>\nMaine<\/a><\/td>\nMaryland<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Massachusetts<\/a><\/td>\nMichigan<\/a><\/td>\nMinnesota<\/a><\/td>\nMississippi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Missouri<\/a><\/td>\nMontana<\/a><\/td>\nNebraska<\/a><\/td>\nNevada<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Hampshire<\/a><\/td>\nNew Jersey<\/a><\/td>\nNew Mexico<\/a><\/td>\nNew York<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Carolina<\/a><\/td>\nNorth Dakota<\/a><\/td>\nOhio<\/a><\/td>\nOklahoma<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oregon<\/a><\/td>\nPennsylvania<\/a><\/td>\nRhode Island<\/a><\/td>\nSouth Carolina<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
South Dakota<\/a><\/td>\nTennessee<\/a><\/td>\nSee below<\/span><\/td>\nUtah<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vermont<\/a><\/td>\nVirginia<\/a><\/td>\nWashington<\/a><\/td>\nWest Virginia<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wisconsin<\/a><\/td>\nWyoming<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Shawn Hamilton<\/p>\n

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Texas Republican Dan Patrick had the brass balls to propose legislation that would make it a crime for TSA agents to sexually molest pasengers.<\/span><\/a> Unfortunately, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst intervened and saved the molesters from harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As some of you know, I quit flying and announced the fact on Tom Sullivan’s national radio show. Channel 10 covered\u00c2\u00a0the “protest.” There were only three of us at the Sacramento International Airport, and I\u00c2\u00a0was not posturing. I’m completely serious. I’ve already looked into booking\u00c2\u00a0passage on ocean freighters as an alternative to flying internationally: http:\/\/www.seatravelltd.co.uk\/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,100,6,45],"tags":[253,240,239,238,237,236,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}