The thugs at the TSA — the ones who persecute little girls with spina bifida so cruelly that their victims scream they don’t wanna go to Disney World after all; who drench survivors of bladder cancer in their own urine; who force crippled boys to walk without their leg-braces and sexually assault women until they sob — apparently aren’t brutes after all. They have their soft, compassionate side; they just don’t waste it on people. But let “one of their veteran canine officers, a 10 year old German shepherd named Tina,” die, and the crocodile tears flow. Indeed, though they never show the least compunction about their crimes against passengers, these criminals “joined in a memorial service for Tina on Tuesday night at the Dayton Expo Center. ‘It’s a celebration of her life, and it’s sad because gosh I’m going to miss her, I certainly have a hole in my heart,’ said Officer Phil Ehling, who handled Tina.” Hmmm. Who knew ol’ Phil had a heart? But since he claims he does, here’s hoping the alleged hole only grows bigger. Meanwhile, too bad Phil has no “hole in the heart” for the taxpayers he traumatizes. But we’re mere props to such sociopaths, who enjoy playing Cops ‘N’ Turrists with the whiz-bang toys we buy ’em while fantasizing about their own “heroism.”
The sociopaths’ “poetry” is almost as degraded as their consciences: “‘I’m gone now this much is true, but I’ve done my job well in protecting you. And Tina did,’ one k9 officer read from a poem during the memorial.” Whew! Doggerel, so to speak, in the hands of the insane. Pardon me while I go lose my breakfast.
OK, I’m back. Let’s change the initial letter of the acronym and head over to the NSA, where Our Rulers give us another gigantic middle finger for the new year. “When The FISA Court Rejects A Surveillance Request, The FBI Just Issues A National Security Letter Instead,” says the headline on an article Mark Luedtke sent. You’ll recall that the FISA Court is nothing more than whitewash, allowing the NSA to claim that a judge–a mere man and petty bureaucrat–has seen and approved its requests to violate the Fourth Amendment, not only the highest law of the land but in this case codifying one of the inalienable rights our Creator Himself endows. Actually, FISA seldom concerns itself with the facts of the NSA’s application, preferring instead to approve whatever request the NSA makes: from 1979-2013, out of approximately 31,000 “FISA Applications Presented,” the Court rejected 12. Yes, twelve.
FISA needn’t have spoiled its nigh-perfect record as a rubber-stamp, because the NSA doesn’t require its approval to spy on us. On the .000387% of the occasions that FISA didn’t come through for it, the NSA simply grabbed another of its favorite totalitarian tools, a National Security Letter. Spying on, lying to, and fooling us, all at the same time! What an agency! What a government!
So, serfs, happy new year from your ever-lovin’ Rulers!
10:52 am on January 2, 2015
