I ask you, how illogical is it to argue that because you might be a terror threat to others, the police have a right to stop you on the road, or search you in a bus terminal, or search you in an airport, train station, supermarket, shopping mall, sports event, night club, or simply anywhere on any street at any time or in your home where you may be conspiring? All of these are birds of a feather. There is no difference among them whatsoever when it comes to the supposed justification. It all comes down to policing against non-existent crimes, that is, policing against threats that have not materialized and literally do not exist except as mere possibilities or figments of imagination. By the way, this slippery slope leads into thought crime, crimes of speech and expression, and into control of minds so that these threats are extinguished before they are thought or shortly thereafter.
There is a difference between an actual threat and an imagined threat. An actual threat has several categories whereby one knows that harm is possibly going to be inflicted or is imminent. There may be a statement of intention to inflict harm (pain, injury, damage). There may be an exhibition or brandishing of weapons. There may be body language that indicates an attack.
Buying an airline ticket or boarding an airplane or getting off a bus to leave the terminal or driving along a highway or taking a subway or photographing a policeman — none of these constitute threats of any kind.
If people are to control their police and policing, they cannot allow police to take action against non-existent threats, simply because that category is infinitely expansible and justifies complete power of the police over the people. There cannot be policing against suspicions that lack a basis in real behavior. That means policing without a reason.
All these VIPR activities and airport searches are totally inconsistent with government (policing) being controlled by people. They are the very definition of a police state.
There is simply no question that America has been invaded by its own government or police state.
It makes no difference whatever to this conclusion, which is a matter of logic and understanding of the terms and actions involved, to say that a certain number of people (even a majority of people) agree with it or comply with it or support it. If some people want a police state or support it, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s a police state.
The irony of this invasion of America by the TSA and other kinds of police being aided and abetted by VIPRs is that they are not only threats but actual invaders who are constantly invading people.
The supposed protectors are the invaders.
