{"id":34431,"date":"2016-04-01T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34431"},"modified":"2016-03-22T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T14:22:21","slug":"qotd-the-real-purpose-of-the-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/04\/01\/qotd-the-real-purpose-of-the-tsa\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The real purpose of the TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The big pretend that costuming and repurposing mall food court workers as &#8220;security&#8221; will be anything approaching that has fooled the lazy American public that takes its civil liberties for granted.<\/p>\n<p>They miss most of the items in DHL tests of their detection abilities, and really, it is clear that this is not security but a jobs program for unskilled earners, a cash program for former government employees like Michael Chertoff and the companies they are associated with, and obedience training for the American public &mdash; to be docile in the face of their rights being yanked from them.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Alkon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advicegoddess.com\/archives\/2016\/03\/22\/the_tragedy_in.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Tragedy In Belgium Shows Up The Utter Fallacy That The TSA Will Keep You Safe&#8221;, <em>Advice Goddess Blog<\/em><\/a>, 2016-03-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big pretend that costuming and repurposing mall food court workers as &#8220;security&#8221; will be anything approaching that has fooled the lazy American public that takes its civil liberties for granted. They miss most of the items in DHL tests of their detection abilities, and really, it is clear that this is not security but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,41,13],"tags":[727,201,451],"class_list":["post-34431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-securitytheatre","tag-tsa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Xl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34432,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431\/revisions\/34432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}