Well Down the Road to Tyranny

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”-Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

How little we understand that once freedom is gone it doesn't come back, not without a real revolution (and there might be hope for one). Once the state and its officials experience an increase in power, they do not relinquish it without a fight. Why has the "liberal" and "progressive" Obama left the Bush violations of liberty in place and even gone beyond them? Well, for one thing, he and his family won't be subjected to what the mere peasants must endure. Can you imagine Obama letting his girls be groped by a TSA goon? But the peasants, well, their children will face such a violation, including groping, and if over 12, genital groping:

INSKEEP: We have another question from Carla Atkinson, who says, What happens if I refuse to have my nine-year-old daughter scanned when we fly in December? Will they really pat down a child?

Mr. KAIR (Assistant administrator, Transportation Security Administration): Everyone who goes through the checkpoint has the option of opting out of our advanced imaging technology. They would be subjected to a pat down. For children, we have a little bit of a different procedure where we use some technology instead of the same way we use the pat down. So it would be a little bit different than it would be on an adult, but they would be subjected to a pat down..

INSKEEP: So the answer is sorry, yes, we’ve got to do something with this nine-year-old.

Mr. KAIR: Yes.-TSA: Unpredictability Is Part Of Security Process

Former Arkansas Gov. and Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made the point about Obama and his family this way:

"If he thinks this is an appropriate way for us to deal with security as he has defended, then I've said, 'OK, Mr. Obama, take your wife, your two daughters and your mother-in-law to Washington Reagan National Airport and have them publicly go through both the body scanner and the full enhanced pat-down in front of others,'" Huckabee said in an interview on Fox and Friends. "'If it's OK for your wife, your daughters, and your mother-in-law, then maybe the rest of us won't feel so bad when our wives, our daughters and our mothers are being put through this humiliating and degrading, totally unconstitutional, intrusion of their privacy.'"-Mike Huckabee Challenges First Family to Undergo TSA Screening

On another subject, Huckabee made an often overlooked point regarding the makers of those airport scanners: The one-time Arkansas governor also said he believed that financial motives were at the heart of the new procedures: "This is more about people making millions and millions of dollars off the machines that they manufactured and then lobbied to sell to the government," he said.


Obama is one of the ruling elite, and looking at his background it's not hard to understand who he really is, so he also wants to increase the power over the people that the ruling elite continue to seek to expand. Any new powers mean Obama and his cohorts are more powerful, and it doesn't really matter the nature of those powers, to roll them back is a concession to liberty, to "radicals", to "government haters", and they will never be able to bring themselves to agreement with those "fringe elements".

Push too far, though, as we're seeing with the reaction to the TSA (Tyrannical Search Authority - got that from LRC), even if it is not an overwhelming majority who offer any protest or resistance, and you may just have, in combination with an economic collapse, a recipe for a peaceful revolution, perhaps through successful secession movements, that release the people and the states (enshrined in the Bill of Rights in the 9th and 10th amendments) from the the present tyranny and oppressive evil of the main instrument of ruling class control, the Federal Government of the United States.

If we are not successful in ending the abuses of the Federal Government soon, however, we will continue to move with lightning speed down that road to tyranny, until we reach the end, the dead end of dictatorship.

I am a retired law enforcement officer who has “patted down” scores of individuals. “Pat downs” are conducted on individuals an investigating officer has reason to believe pose an immediate potential threat. The procedures currently utilized by TSA thugs are in fact pre-custodial searches of suspects under arrest. This is how euphemisms become embedded in the lexicon of a society well down the road to tyranny.--Allen Nightingale Pat Down or Pre-Custodial Search?