From Dateline Zero -
From people traveling by plane (and soon, bus and train), to the free press, the almighty State wants no surprises. Cory Doctorow made a great observation in a recent post at Boing Boing, while commenting on a TSA story: “By declaring war on the unexpected, the TSA has set in motion a policy that makes the lives of cancer sufferers, disabled people, people who’ve had major surgery, and many others who’re already having a hard time even harder.”
Everyone is a potential victim of the government right now, because everyone is seen as a potential enemy of the State. Why? Because human beings are unpredictable.
This war on the unexpected means the TSA is more worried about nail-clippers than guns; and what is on the other side of a menstruating woman’s pad is now the business of government, for some preposterous reason.
SEE RELATED: “TSA agent confiscates nail clippers; lets assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns pass.”
The United States Government’s war on the unexpected also means that free exchange of information is seen as a risk to the State, and therefor the Internet is a battlefield and the free press is in jeopardy.
While Wikileaks is being painted as a terrorist organization, and Julian Assange was labeled as someone so dangerous he had to be arrested by whatever charges they could come up with (he is apparently under arrest for … not wearing a condom); any U.S. newspapers daring to pass along material from Wikileaks are also being threatened.
The United States of America of today is …
