<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Did I just wake up in an Orwell&nbsp;novel?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s going to be very difficult for me to avoid profanity in this post. This just makes me spitting mad. You&#8217;ve been warned.</p>
<p>Just when I thought nothing could be as stupid and evil as the nitwit, unionized, jackbooted thugs at the TSA along comes a little Himmler at DHS to prove me wrong. Not satisfied with the expensive, useless kabuki theatre laughingly called &#8220;airport security&#8221;, here&#8217;s a plan to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/aviation-security/2008/Jul/01/want-some-torture-with-your-peanuts/" target="_blank">treat every single passenger as a criminal</a>.</p>
<p>See if you can watch this video without throwing a wrench through your screen.<br />
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<p>This is just so mind-numbingly stupid I can&#8217;t believe it. It would <em>kill</em> air travel. Would you allow some goon to attach one of these to your arm? To your <em>kid&#8217;s</em> arm?</p>
<p>Pardon my French, but what a bunch of fucktards. Revolutions have been fought over less. It&#8217;s time to disband the DHS and the TSA and start over.</p>
<p>Like with profiling and armed pilots.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>:</p>
<p>Michelle Malkin has a <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/09/dhs-researching-electric-shock-bracelets-to-subdue-airline-terrorists/" target="_blank">sort-of denial</a> from the DHS. Note, especially, that last line in the post. So maybe more of my fire-spitting vitriol should be directed at the company which makes the bracelet and produced that video than at DHS, but I still say it, and that gargantuan waste of money called the TSA, should be disbanded.</p>
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