Abroad: The United States spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning for troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan — more than NASA’s entire budget, NPR reported. In fact, the same amount of money that keeps soldiers cool is the amount the G-8 has committed to helping the fledgling democracies in Tunisia and Egypt.
At home: A woman has filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security over how her elderly mother was detained and searched by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend. News Herald reported that Jean Weber filed the complaint after her wheelchair-bound 95-year-old mother, who is in the final stages of her battle with leukemia, was asked to remove an adult diaper during a pat down search.
Lavish expenses for the elites and their stormtroopers, farcical rules and regulations for the plebes – these are all clear signs of the late stages of imperial degeneracy. Truly pathetic.
They must have thought that the old lady had a bomb in her diaper.
It happens, you know.
Strangely enough the Christmas-bomber, a Nigerian man who had a kind of bomb in his underwear, was not checked that thoroughly. Worse: even though he had no passport, he was allowed on board of the plane, thanks to the Israelian Security in Amsterdam, I suppose. A lawyer, Kurt Haskell and his wife saw it all happening, and told the story on CNN and at Alex Jones:
CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtK7FFDukQ&feature=player_embedded#!
Alex Jones: http://www.mathaba.net/go/?http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-eyewitness-revelations-confirmed-fbi-cover-up-of-flight-253-attack/
Every time a see a concrete barrier which delays everybody and plugs the sidewalk, and every time a hear a security announcement in the railroad station about luggage, and every time a visit an airport, with all that goes with that, I whisper a little thank you to all the happy neocons that have declared war on a billion and a half people because 19 people didn’t like our support of a racist regime in Israel. The 19 people did not need Afghanistan for anything. They got their flight training in the US (Hollywood FLA), bought their box cutters here, went to the gym here to get fit, came from a mosque in Hamburg Germany where they were radicalized, and when it went down,the pashtun are blamed for saying “not so fast” ,when binLadin denied he had anything to with 911 for quite a while (to widely circulated papers in Pakistan) but the regime in Afghanistan was supposed to turn him over to the tender mercies of the US. Just out of pure pride, I’m not sure I blame them, in the fog of war that prevailed then. binladin was making moral arguments against murder of civilians in the press at the time. I don’t know when or if he really flipped attitude, but when one makes what sounds like a moral argument against mass murder, and the source is verified, then when he suddenly says- ok I did it- something is – well- odd. Lot we don’t know.