Humiliation for Fun and Profit
June 15, 2020
After twenty very long years, the TSA’s business model—humiliate and harass your “customers”—has finally gained traction. It even has imitators, incredibly enough; how else to explain this headline?
Stormtroopers Used to Enforce Social Distancing at Disney World
Disney Springs opened up last week and it has been crowded, so Stormtroopers from the Star Wars franchise have been called in to help with social distancing.
Mr. Anonymous wondered whether this article was a gag; he actually researched and verified it before sending it to me. Such lunacy provokes three questions from him:
- Will their weapons be set to Stun, Kill, or Vaccinate?
- Will Bill Gates drop all pretenses and dress up as Darth Vader?
- Will Disney prevent confusion by writing “I am not a police officer” on the Storm Troopers’ body armour?
Meanwhile, tickets to Disney World are nigh as expensive as those to aviation’s gulag. What is it with Americans, eager to pay through the nose for rank abuse?
The Incomparable Orson Welles