Loss of Privacy

Keeping you informed on recent losses to privacy and civil rights worldwide.

TSA workers at La Guardia airport in New York City found two pipes in a passenger’s bag so they removed them. Although they were determined to not be dangerous, the pipes were confiscated anyway and the TSA tossed them in a nearby bin that the TSA uses at their checkpoints. Everyone forgets the pipes are even in the bin.

Six hours later, a new shift comes on to work. This shift of TSA workers freaks out because no one knows how these pipes got in the bin, so the TSA workers call the police bomb squad out of “abundance of caution.” This “abundance of caution” does not apply to passengers because, at no point in time is the airport evacuated and no portion of the airport closed while the bomb squad investigates.

So, just what were those pipes?

Several law enforcement sources told CNN the objects were determined to be homeopathic medical devices.

Image is from the CNN story.

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Every day, millions of American children are forced to start their school day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. They are told by their principals that it is required, but it is not. The Pledge is considered to be an oath of allegiance and it is a “government-sanctioned endorsement of religion,” that “violates the Establishment Clause of the first amendment to the US Constitution.”

The history of the Pledge shows that it is not, and never was, a pledge set in stone. It has been controversial since it began and continues to be so today. During its lifetime, it has been changed four times. The origin of the Pledge also was never intended as an oath of loyalty. It was designed to encourage people to buy more flags from one particular flag-making company.

 

Read the rest of my article at The Daily Censored.

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The nine berobed big brains of the Supreme Court make sense of what appear to be arbitrary, archaic distinctions of profanity and nudity.

That’s right folks, America is still the land of blood and violence on television, but show a side boob and everyone goes apeshit and starts fining people. If you’re going to let the government dictate your moral standards, there should be some sort of standard and not random fines depending on who is in office at the time.

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