| September 25th, 2006 |
| A little conspiracy & a lot of irony... | 11:39 pm |
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A little conspiracy
The Department of Homeland Security has decided to relax their rules a bit. Well, sorta. They recently cracked down on what items passengers could bring as carry-on baggage after British authorities thwarted an alleged plot to blow up some 10 jet airliners traveling to America using explosives hidden in carry-on luggage as innocuous items. DHS decided no more liquids would be allowed, no soda or water, no hair products, no toothpaste or mouthwash, not even lip balm. Doesn't matter if its sealed — never been opened. This was yet another example of knee-jerk reaction to attempts at terrorizing the masses. Just like that failed attempt of Richard Reid to blow up his shoe on a flight, and now passengers are required to remove their shoes while being screened by security, now we are expected to do without even basic hygiene aids because we might have an explosive liquid stashed in our deodorant. Now they say you can bring such items on board, well no more than 3oz., and only as many items that will fit into a 1 quart plastic bag. For beverages you can purchase them at the airport in secured areas after you've been screened. By the way, I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN! I only regret now that I didn't write about that just so I could now say, 'I TOLD YOU SO!'.
To me, that is where the conspiracy of this comes in. Seriously, how convenient is that? Most people want to take certain things with them, especially on long flights. So much so that if they can bring them on they most certainly will. And naturally, since we can't bring these things with us we have no recourse but to buy them at the friendly airport store, that or we could always do without... Conspiracy? Maybe. Maybe it's just coincidental. But it is most definitely a very fucking convenient one.
I will go ahead and make a prediction that many of these items sold in the airport store will be double what they would cost in a regular store. Furthermore, I wonder who gets the money? Maybe this is an attempt to offset the losses from having to price their tickets dirt-cheap after a terrorist scare...
Of course this really doesn't effect me much as I've never flown, mostly because I've never really needed to in the past. With all this security BULLSHIT, scheming, and soon to come price gouging, I can safely say that I will never have to in the future either...
A lot of irony
Viet Dinh is a high-powered lawyer representing multi-millionaire Tom Perkins {former director of Hewlett Packard} in his case to force the company to disclose his reason for resigning. That reason was that he was really pissed off when he found out HP Chairman Patricia Dunn hired private investigators which data mined the Board of Directors personal phone records using a tactic called 'pre-texting'. According to Attorney General Bill Lockyer this tactic is illegal. It damn sure should be and I hope they nail the private spies who used this big brother tactic to the wall. They're nothing more than a bunch of goons.
Now for the irony of all this. Perkin's lawyer, Viet Dinh, is none other than the lawyer which helped the Bush administration draft the Patriot Act. That's right. The guy who once used his legal knowledge to design laws which gave the government authority to spy on Americans in Orwellian fashion now represents a man who was unethically and illegally spied upon by his own company. I think that effectively makes this former Bushite a fucking hypocrite!
I also find it funny the hissy fit the rich & powerful get into when their own corporations spy on them, yet they go to such lengths to support efforts in making it legal for those same corporations to spy on its lesser employees, and worse still for our government to spy on all of us. Shameful...Feeling like:  amused |
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