TSA and Noem
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We are supposed to be grateful to the overripe Kristi Noem, who is Trump's "secretary" (such an innocuous word!) of the Department of Homeland Security for ending the ritual of having to remove one's shoes to pass through the cattle gates at airports. She made the announcement a few days ago, with phalanx of TSA goons standing behind her. The irony entirely lost on her.

This is what's become of "freedom" in the Homeland, a place America was never supposed to be. We're supposed to forget and - worse - clap because we no longer have to take off our shoes when passing through the cattle gates at airports. Never mind we still have to empty our pockets and spread our legs and raise our hands over our heads and accept government goons rifling through our things and putting their hands on our women and children anytime they like.



Oh, thank you Massa Noem!

We're supposed to forget (and many have) that at one time - it was less than 25 years ago - Americans could travel by air anonymously and without molestation. Those too young today to remember will perhaps not believe it but prior to the transformation of America into a Homeland - which took place shortly after the federal government used "terrorism" as the excuse to impose terrorism on the American people in the name of keeping us safe from it - anyone could just buy a ticket to fly and once they had done so, they were free to fly.

ILSA Collection
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You did not have to show ID to buy the ticket. You only had to show the ticket to fly. This meant the government didn't know you were flying - or to where. Imagine that. Your business wasn't the government's because there was a time when Americans weren't presumed to be "terrorists" - which of course the government doesn't actually worry about much less believe. That is for the people who are terrorized by the government to believe. If you do not believe that, consider the fact that no one who owns or charters or flies in a private airplane ever had to take their shoes off or submit to molestation or show ID to a government goon in order to get on the airplane. The Security Kabuki (like Sickness Kabuki) was and still is only for the cattle, not the ranchers.

The cattle (most of them) do not know about this, of course. Because most of them do not have the means to own a private airplane or even fly privately. If they did know what doesn't go on at the general aviation (i.e., private) terminal they might wonder how anyone not actually retarded could believe that an actual terrorist organization would be stymied from using private airplanes to attack Our Freedoms. Are these "terrorists" unable to charter a private airplane? Are we to believe that a rich Saudi prince or someone similarly positioned lacks the means to do that?

Never mind. The American Homeland iteration of Ilse, She-Wolf of the SS, has told us we are free to keep our shoes on as we're processed through the cattle gates at airports. And the cattle are supposed to be appreciative. No doubt some
Yessa Massa
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are. Just as some are grateful for the "refund" they get - of their own money, sans interest or penalties - after the government has taken it and made use of it for a year, at the end of the tax year.

Oh, thank you massa!

It is hard to say which is worse. The degradation visited upon Americans or the degraded state of Americans. The distinction is no small matter. Americans - not all, of course - but a depressingly large number of them - have been reduced to the condition of field hands grateful for what massa allows them. Who see massa as the source of their protection and sustenance rather than their oppressor.

When Thomas Jefferson returned to his Monticello plantation after having been away for a long time in Europe as of the American representatives sent there to cajole the French government into supporting the American cause, the story goes that the slaves rushed to meet his carriage and proceeded to replace the horses that were drawing it with themselves, so overjoyed were they that massa was back.

One wonders what Jefferson thought about them. It's not hard to guess what Noem thinks about us.

Cue that Lee Greenwood song, to summon the fury to smash something.