24-11-2010, 06:41 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:It crossed my mind today [as they do the same in American Prisons and Jails] that the real message with the new airline security procedures was that we are all 'prisoners' and will be subject to invasive and degrading searches, just as all prisoners are subjected to when we 'leave and return from the cell block'!
Yup - an astute thought.
Nothing like a bit of Pavlovian conditioning for the masses - in this case, of learned helplessness.
Also, security guards - be they airport scanning staff or police custody officers - seem quickly to adapt to performing rectal examinations and the like until it becomes all in a day's work.
Little kid: "What did you do today Mommy?"
Mommy: "I spent the entire day working with assholes...."
:nurse:
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war