Ron Paul: Crotch Groped by TSA, Calls for Boycott of Airlines

Discussion in 'Economics' started by bearice, Nov 24, 2010.

Would you boycott the airlines?

  1. Yes

    46 vote(s)
    66.7%
  2. No

    23 vote(s)
    33.3%
  1. #111     Nov 25, 2010
  2. TSA Gestapo Empire

    Paul Craig Roberts
    Infowars.com
    November 24, 2010

    It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 told USA Today 16 days later that protecting trains and subways from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority for him as air travel.

    It is difficult to imagine New Yorkers being porno-screened and sexually groped on crowed subway platforms or showing up an hour or two in advance for clearance for a 15 minute subway ride, but once bureaucrats get the bit in their teeth they take absurdity to its logical conclusion. Buses will be next, although it is even more difficult to imagine open air bus stops turned into security zones with screeners and gropers inspecting passengers before they board.

    (article continues)............ http://www.infowars.com/tsa-gestapo-empire/
     
    #112     Nov 25, 2010
  3. TSA Gropers Prone To Predatory Criminal Behavior


    Paul Joseph Watson
    Infowars.com
    November 24, 2010


    News that a TSA employee abducted a woman before sexually assaulting her is just the latest example of how TSA workers are prone to criminal and predatory behavior particularly targeting women and children, emphasizing once again why they are attracted to jobs that allow them to sexually molest and ogle vulnerable members of society.

    (video)............. http://www.infowars.com/tsa-gropers-prone-to-predatory-criminal-behavior/
     
    #113     Nov 25, 2010
  4. I can see all the conspiracy theorists are out in full force on this site. How pathetic.

    ** hardly anyone is going to boycott the airlines. Ppl need to travel to see family, for work, vacation, etc. Get used to it !!!!
     
    #114     Nov 25, 2010
  5. What's the conspiracy? All you have to do is follow the money train and the pieces come together rather easily.

    The CEO of OSI Systems Deepak Chopra was Obama’s special guest on his trip to India.

    Soros had held 11,300 shares of OSI.

    Chertoff and his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the scanning machines.

    And now this huge push to put these machines everywhere...

    It's not for security purposes.
     
    #115     Nov 25, 2010
  6. I don't get this hysteria about airline safety.

    More people died falling of the stairs this year then people in Europe or the US died of terrorism this decade...

    I say we ban stairs first and deal with the threat of terror later.
     
    #116     Nov 25, 2010
  7. Yes they do travel............... http://www.epicaircraft.com/LT.html

    Private Airlines! :cool:
     
    #117     Nov 25, 2010
  8. Fractal

    Fractal

    OMFG -- it's a conspiracy! I absolutely LOVE reading about theories like that. It makes me feel that warm slave morality vindication -- or more accurately like a victim who can finally identify his abusers by name.
     
    #118     Nov 25, 2010
  9. You did not write other news from the article. Here they are:

    “A TSA employee based at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport tried to kill himself after allegedly abducting a woman, sexually assaulting her then giving her a suicide note to deliver,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

    49-year-old Randall Scott King kidnapped the woman after she had accompanied him from the airport. Whether or not King abused his power as a TSA officer to make the woman accompany him is still being investigated by police.

    The story arrives on the same day as another incident highlighting once again how TSA workers transfer their predatory sexual behavior from their private lives to their jobs.

    Working in airport security seems to attract perverts, rapists and pedophiles because it gives them legitimate cover through which to exercise their deviancy. Indeed, a prank caller who pretended to be a sex pervert phoned the TSA about applying for a job and was treated seriously by a TSA staffer.

    Back in March it emerged that TSA worker Sean Shanahan, who was employed at Boston Logan International Airport to pat down passengers, had been charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl.

    Similarly, 57-year-old Charles Henry Bennett, who worked at Orlando International Airport as a TSA screener, was arrested earlier this month in connection with the molestation of a 6-year-old girl whom he planned to make his “sex slave”.

    44-year-old Rolando Negrin beat his supervisor with a police baton after he had cracked jokes about Negrin’s small manhood when he walked through a naked scanner as part of a training exercise at Miami International Airport. The story underscored the fact that authorities had been lying all along about the claim that the scanners did not show sensitive details of genitalia.

    http://www.infowars.com/tsa-gropers-prone-to-predatory-criminal-behavior/
     
    #119     Nov 25, 2010
  10. LeeD

    LeeD

    I'm sure you are well-versed regarding internals of the monetary system. However, lots of knowledgeable people take things for granted and don't think beyond what written in text books. No personal offence intended.

    As an example, I would like to share an intresting discovery I made recently. It may be obvious to other but it wasn't obvious to me although I had been familiar with how modern banking system workd for many years.

    (This paragraph describes how money supply works for the sake of people who are not familiar with the topic.) Every $1,000,000 dollars Fed creates through monetary easying is given to the Government (or rather Goldman Sachs) in exchange for government
    debt securities. This money is immediately deposited in a bank account. Given the reserve rate in the US is 10%, the bank can land the remaining 90% x $1,000,000 = $900,000 dollars. The boorower deposits this money in a bank again and the bank can lend 90% x $900,000 = $810,000. As the process repeats itself $1,000,000 "printed" by the Fed adds $1,000,000/(100% - 90%) = $10,000,000 of money to the system.

    So, for every $1 mln "printed" by the Fedral Reserve, banking system creates additional $9 mln. Note that for these $9 mln to be created by the banking system, this money should be lent to someone so that they deposit it in their bank account. So, for every $1mln created by the Fed, $9mln of debt created. My discovery was that 90% of the money that exists in the economy is actually debt. The monetary system as we know it cannot exist without people and companies owing most of their cash to the banks.

    Note that "fractional reserve" banking and bills backed by a commodity (such as gold) are 2 completely different things.

    In particular, fractional reserve system could exist even if the only money in circulation was physical gold. As soon as you deposit 100 gold coins in a bank account (for safekeeping) the bank can lend 90% of these coins to another client. Now you own 100 coins and the borrower has 90 coins. The money multiplier keeps working. Only 100 coins were deposited while the initial depositor and teh first borrower believe they own 190 gold coins between them.

    Now, the question is... How lending could exist before the fractional deposit system without geopradising the value of gold?

    If you lend gold to someone you are no longer in posession of this gold and cannot use it to pay for goods and services till the borrower returns it. Only one person at a time is in the possession of the cold he or she could use as a payment whilw with fractional reseve system for every gold coin there are 10 people who think they own this coin and keep spending as if they are in a possession of it.

    So, if banks were deprived from lending money from the current accounts (100% reserve requirement), lending would not stop at once. Banks would keep lending money they attracted in "time deposits" or via issuing short-term bonds.

    Now would 100% reserve requirement stop the banking crisis? Apprently not. A large part of the reason for the crisis is cachflow mismatch between long-term assets and short-term liabilities. For example, British Royal Bank of Scotland financed its morrgage lending in the money market. The idea was that to finance teh mortage book with average duration over 5 years RBS would re-borrow the whole value of mortgages in the money market. Naturally, as soon as people stopped lending to RBS, its mortgage business got into trouble. Now would this happen if RBS issued mortgage-backed securities instead to provide financing for teh whole duration of the mortgages? Aparently, ivestors would get hit but the bank would stay afloat.
     
    #120     Nov 25, 2010