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Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by busterarm »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #24
cpfohl wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't follow...can you connect the dots for me?

The Constitution imposes a lot of constraints on the government that make its job more difficult, presumably because those rights would not be protected if it was necessarily to rely on some inherent bit of goodness in bureaucrats.

Let's not forget that the Bill of Rights almost didn't make it into the Constitution and was only really tacked on as an afterthought to shut down anti-Federalist attempts to scuttle the Constitution before it was ratified.

And now several of those 10 Amendments have been eroded/defeated through recent law.

Great job that Constitution is doing us... but I guess it paints that much worse a picture of a country without it.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by alanh »

ferdo wrote: post #28
chimeracoder wrote: post #12

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Author here. I'd recommend reading until the end - unfortunately, it didn't end when I was released from airport.

I'm not able to access your site. I'm getting "Unable to connect" in Firefox. The rest of the net is fine.

Here is a mirror / cache: http://peg.gd/3pI

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by chiph »

eshvk wrote: post #6

This makes me so angry. This was one of the reasons I got out of consulting. Every fucking time, I would get an enhanced check. Surprisingly enough, it is nothing new. This is something you face if you are a minority. Hell, I remember a friend from back in Africa whose dad got blacklisted in the nineties because he had a beard. Brown catholic guy with a beard got blacklisted. The only difference now is that at least…

If I were a consultant today, I'd look into buying an RV. No more dirty hotel rooms or questionable restaurant food. And a much lower chance of a TSA encounter.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by Robin_Message »

evan_ wrote: post #82
pinaceae wrote: post #56

Contrarian perspective: He fits a certain profile. Triggered a bunch of attributes (address move, chemicals on him, etc.). The 9/11 attackers walked through the scanners with knifes. The Boston bombers were flagged, but still traveled freely. After both attacks people were laughing at the stupidity of the enforcement agencies, uselessness of the TSA, etc. Here, the process worked. His account is subjective, everyone…

What was the purpose of denying him water? Of taking the picture?

Cynically? That sounds like a standard interrogation technique. Keep them off balance, upset them, try and force them to stop lying so as to get the drink they need (not that the OP was lying).

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by wyclif »

tokenizer wrote: post #18

The United States (Government) are a bunch of unenlightened, racist, xenophobic people bent on oppressing people by treating every non english/anglo-saxon as a terrorist. Please, someone tell me this isn't the case in an absolute sense.

Eh, I think it's a tad more complex than that. The US is a heterogeneous culture with lots of people of varying cultures, religions, and skin tones. Though I'm certainly no fan of the TSA, and wish the US gov't would reform the system in a direction more like Israel's, they actually aren't treating every non-white person as a suspected terrorist.

Re: Don't Fly During Ramadan

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Post by dragonwriter »

at-fates-hands wrote: post #57
drivingmenuts wrote: post #5

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Sadly, I lack the faith that such re-examination of our country will happen anytime soon. The inmates are in charge of the asylum and replacing them is going to take decades.

The only way the people take this country back is to start a third party. A REAL third party, somewhere between the moderate liberals and the libertarians. Without any outside competition, it's just recycling the same type of candidates, with the same policies and with the same disregard for basic civil liberties.

> The only way the people take this country back is to start a third party.

If a party was started, it wouldn't be a third party, it'd be something like a fortieth party, excluding strictly regional parties.

The reason additional parties aren't competitive is structural in the electoral systems used in federal and state elections, and adding more parties isn't going to change that.

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