My daughter, who is 17, came to visit me for the holidays. Despite my misgivings, she insisted on flying. A trip of 700 miles, which she has made in around 12 hours by car several times, ended up taking 19 1/2 hours. She was jerked around by the incompetent airline employees (who no longer concern themselves with making the customer happy, but only with satisfying their federal masters), had some of her possessions stolen by the goons of the TSA, and ended up crying. This girl is tough and doesn't cry.
Needless to say, I needed a few days to calm down before I wrote about this incident. I long ago realized that flying is no longer an option for me. The last time I did it, back in 2000, I ended up getting to my destination and discovering a .22 round in my pocket. This was in spite of practically stripping off everything I wear in order to prevent such from happening. Now, if the TSA goons discovered something like that before I did, I would probably be raped by them or tasered to death.
There needs to be a real free-market airline. One that tells the feds where to stick their terroristic regulations. One where the pilots and attendants are armed, and where the passengers are assumed to be as well. I know this would mean that the liberty-free zones euphemistically called "airports" couldn't be used, since they have been stolen by the feds. I also know that the feds would fight any such attempt, claiming ownership of the sky or some such socialistic balderdash.
Still, it is time. Don't believe me? Watch this: TSA brutality.
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Not my fault if you guys are so stupid that you still fly. It's obvious by now that the whole system is evil to the core.
ReplyDeleteNot only do I not fly, I won't even go to airports at all.
ReplyDeleteMy work forces me to take airlines.
ReplyDeleteEverything your daughter faced is now merely common place.
Airlines are now slaves of the government - they are now doing law enforcement, civil law enforcement (alimony enforcement), and immigration.
Airlines will all fail - and be bailed out by the government - and become another department of the government.
Libertarian author L. Neil Smith addresses this issue in his sci-fi novel (and the recent graphic novel adaption of) "The Probability Broach"
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Yep. Very good book. You oughta see my old ragged copy.
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