Exclusive: new Senate documents show members of Congress, others placed under an intrusive surveillance for dubious reasons under now-defunct TSA program
Hundreds of millions of dollars to follow people who questioned mask mandates, while drug cartels and violence take over cities. Almost as if they wanted it that way.
The use of Quiet Skies, pervasive control of social media companies’ content, “former” intel officials dominating mainstream media: none of this is (was) about safety or security of Americans. It was about imposing top-down control of the Party over state and society. They could care less about how ordinary people fare on the streets. Their objective was consolidating the control of Western imperial interests over domestic politics.
The main response here is... Trump is the fascist?... Trump is the Authoritarian?...
Listen. I hate Trump, HATE!!! I can't believe we've sunk so low as a country that that idiot is our leader, but... He's our leader because of the alternatives.
C'mon, Turd... "HATE" is too strong... repulsive, obnoxious, arrogant, doesn't know when to shut up--fine, I may disagree but I get it. But "HATE" (all caps) does not make sense, at least it doesn't to me.
Sorry... HATE is right. I really don't like the man. I've worked for a couple of Fortune 500's that knew him, and they're personal opinions of the man met my from 100 miles away expectations.
SO, the Fortune 500 guys don't like him... A good buddy of mine on Wall St also reports that many think that Trump is an "asshole"... means nothing to me, I think Fortune 500 guys and WS guys are, kind of by definition, assholes, too, flaming, greedy narcissists all... I'm guessing they are mostly jealous that he outwits/outdeals/outlast them. Big money people are quite competitive, and don't like to get beat.
Bottom line: you don't have to like Trump personally (I've been a critic since Art of the Deal days, late 80s) to like his policy chops.. Just end the wars, bring home the jobs, and secure the border, and I'll be a happy guy.
Biggest point in Trump's favor: he has raised a fantastic family.. His kids and grandkids not only love him, but, surprisingly, none of them have turned out to be a train wreck a la Hunter Biden. How do you explain that?
IT MAKES SENSE TO ME. I am still autistic and still a genius in logic. We haven't evolved with our technology. My wife studied science at the University of Chicago in a lab next to David Suzuki and his fruit flies. In 2024 we learned Columbus was a Jew fleeing another John Roberts court of Inquisition in Spain. Columbus was a JEW and a Celt living in the Basque. He was neither Italian nor was he a sailor. He was a refugee fleeing the Empire of Holy effing Rome.
My father told me the story 70 years ago and all my paternal relatives are (were) entitled to Spanish and Portuguese citizenship with DNA testing.
I am smoking Amsterdam Sativa (Organic Cherry Mints) and touring the Cosmos. I live near the Haskell Library. My wife lives inside her books. My wife is still a brilliant philosopher at 87. Robert Stanley Weir wrote Oh Canada here in Stanstead county. On Wednesday our helper went to the library to get my wife her books. Our helper needed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to help her find her way into the library. She had used the front entrance in the Derby line Vermont neighbourhood of Stanstead for over 50 years but on October first she was forced to use a door not intended for the public. I've been through South Dakota and Wall Drugs is South Dakota. Mount Rushmore is more myth than history. We have houses where the front door is in Vermont and the bedroom is in Canada and your Borg SS Chief Kkkristi Noem came and told us we would be assimilated. We are CANADIANS with our own histories and cultures and most of us will not be assimilated into your beehives. Most of Alberta and Saskatchewan immigration is from the south not across the sea and for many of them commodities have value and people are to be used to serve only greed and insatiable appetites.
They are the chosen of the Earth. Calvinists and Mormons serving their brethren higher up the totem poles. It is was it is . I am a Jew and given power Mammon beats Jesus 8 days a week. Empires rise and fall and Russia has fallen and the United States is not far behind. Putin is all that holds Russia together and his best days are behind him. It took 70 years to learn how to write but I am fluent in AI. It is good to be me in 2025.
"Life is a comedy for those that think." The Earl of Orford
You are a good shit and worthy of an old man's blessing,
What was the alternative a graduate of Westmount High School? Kamala Harris learned about real patriotism and the obligations of citizenship during Quebec's democratic revolution. Leonard Cohen led the country band and dreamed of a career in stand-up. We learned real history. We learned the holocaust began in Havana, on orders from Rome, Washington, London, and Berlin.
Today Leonard's face lights up our night sky not Cartier's Roman Cross
The Crusades WERE A DISASTER that began with a genocide of the Jews of the Rhineland and ended with the death of thousands of innocent women and children on the waY TO Jerusalem so Jesus could rule the world. St Augustine authored the Final Solution.
In Quebec imagine we have no religion, no races and gender is analog not digital. In Quebec healthcare, education and welfare are HUMAN RIGHTS not privileges of the privileged. Our division is linguistic. It is either the language of Rome or the Language of central Europe and South Asia. Jesus was an Aramean and spoke the language of Arabia. There were no Jews or Arabs in the Court of Kings James one or two until Cromwell in 1653
Good old Hillary marking every opponent a Russian asset……. It really does get old and repetitive! I’m amazed that she doesn’t realize how tired the American people are of hearing her same story for the past 10 years! Which have never been proven true! She is definitely from the dark side.
After she trounced Harris in the 2019 Democratic debates, I wondered if Tulsi Gabbard would rise to a more prominent spot in the Dem party. When Hillary doubled-down on her ‘Russian-asset’ accusations, I knew they had their knives out for her. The Democrats could “mean girl” their party into oblivion.
I kinda like the push/pull of the two political parties. But since the Dems have canceled reality and refuse to roll back any of their disastrous and unpopular policies the course-correction will have to be involuntary. They’re betting the whole pot on triumphing in the midterms, taking back the White House and diving full-throttle into the same extreme policies, like a crackhead who’s won the lottery. It might be interesting, but it won’t be pretty.
Leonard Cohen led the country band at Kamala's hIGH SCHOOL AND IN 2024 THERE IS NO RELIGION AT kAMALA'S hIGH sCHOOL A BEAUTIFUL HOUR'S WALK OVER THE MOUNTAIN FROM WHERE jOHN AND yOKO SANG. You can visit anytime. It is a PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL and it is a pride and joy of MY COMMUNITY. Our libraries have no Index Liborer Prohibitorum. We need teachers and librarians . Our schools overfloweth and our churches are turning into libraries where we are Freemasons looking to embrace other cultures and different knowledge.
I can no longer walk over the mountain but if someone wants real exercise they can push my wheel chair. The hard part is the downhill and gravity I am still over six foot and 100 kilos.
Quiet Skies was an excuse to harass political opponents without oversight. Reminds me of a while back when Diane Feinstein got all upset that one of the spying programs was used against her.
Yes, and I’m still wondering, how was it that the first Trump administration did not do something about this in 2018 when it came to public attention? Another Mike Pence or Chris Ray whitewash?
Tulsi as the ODNI chief has a lot of power. She can produce agency legislation to take down use of Quiet Skies, the illegal mass surveillance infrastructure aimed at Americans and non-strategically at the entire world, and those concurrently running mind control programs used on military and civil personnel in the federal government.
I am proud of Tulsi Gabbard. She is a brave soldier for the United States. It takes a real warrior to wade through this and know it's not a personal attack, but friendly fire. I support every declaration she has to make to clean out the absolute pit of corruption in clandestine service. She deserves and needs your prayers. We should help her every chance we get.
Everyone knew before the pandemic (via several randomized trials) that masks are useless in stopping viruses. This is why Fauci, in one of his rare moments of truth, announced as much before reversing course into lies. And this is why many of us routinely went maskless using one artifice or another such as slowly eating a bag of peanuts for an entire flight. This episode of ignorance has now become even more hilarious knowing the government wasted resources spying on us. Hilarious, mind, primarily because those wasted resources were worthless anyway.
I remember walking in Hollywood (where I lived at the time) and having an angry Karen yell at me to “put on a mask!” on a beautiful sunshiny day. Meanwhile homeless people were lying in their own filth on the sidewalks being completely ignored. The government really pitted us against each other with irrational fear.
and remember there were literal calls for internment camps of unvaccinated and half the bloody country would have shrugged and said "they made their choice!". what a stain that was on humanity.
As soon as we get Democrats back in the White House and Congress, all this stuff is going right back in—open borders, censorship, surveillance. Most people still don’t know anything about any of this because the news refuses to report on it, and they are too busy getting worked up about Gaza, trans rights, abortion, and ICE raids to consider anything else.
It is shocking that the news media paid almost no attention to the surveillance of Tulsi Gabbard. When I heard aboutit, naively, I thought it would be a big story. It’s revealing that they either didn’t care or approved of this abusive conduct.
Every single person connected with the "Quiet Skies" and other government censorship and/or political harrassment programs initiated under the Biden Administration should be immediately added to the terrorist watchlist. Those are the people we need to keep an eye on.
It wasn't initiated under the Biden administration. And under Trump 1 it continued to operate, including expansions (e.g., deploying air marshals) under its "silent partner" designation.
Our leaders are morons. Removing a mask on a flight is "endangering the crew and passengers"??? Really? It would seem that ALLOWING A FLIGHT TO TAKE PLACE endangered everyone on there AND all the people in the place the flight was going to as a spreading event. So by their definition, the GOVERNMENT endangered EVERYONE. Which is not a surprise at all.
I remember kind of late in the pandemic, airplanes were like the last place people were forced to mask. The 'experts' told us what a catastrophe it would be if we removed the mask mandates -- but when we did, nothing happened. (Shocker!)
The weirdest part about that mandate is that you could take your mask off during flight to eat or drink. Sort of like you could take your mask off when you sat down at a restaurant but had to put it back on if you got up from your table. How did anyone not see this as anything but hygiene theater (which btw, "Hygiene Theater" was what I had written across my mask when forced to wear one).
And a plane is probably one of the lowest risk environments because the air is not only filtered, but constantly refreshed. People think the cabin air is recycled because it's dry, but in fact it is continuously bled from the engine compressors and vented out through a regulated valve. My COVID paranoiac sister tried to convince me that planes had a high level of danger for the Wu flu because her doctor said so. He may know medicine but he doesn't know airplanes like I (aerospace engineer and naval flight officer) do.
Exactly. The plane rules weren't about risk, they were about control. The government has authority over the skies, so they could make you do the song and dance.
Thank you Matt. Your consistent and even-handed reporting always makes me glad to be a longtime supporter. And thank God for Tulsi Gabbard, who stays strong. I'm no Libertarian but Rand Paul seems to be the most consistently honest Senator
My husband served for 27 years, is now a Government contractor, highest security clearance you can get in civilian world, Global Entry ID & Passport, never a part of any protest, & he got the SSSS on his boarding pass & got the "additional search " on our flight in 2021 I believe. He served this country his entire life. Doesnt even cuss, smoke barely drinks besides a glass of wine & not even a speeding ticket. It was the biggest F-U by the Biden administration.
There is a way to protect the pilots and passengers without the falderol. Just allow the good ole boys to carry. They would have stopped it all on 9/11 without any difficulty.
They did implement a program to arm pilots after 9/11, but there was at least one unintentional discharge due to the design of the holster they required them to use, which had a padlock through the trigger guard(!). Anyone with a decent knowledge of guns could tell you that this is massive overkill for retention, highly impractical for actually using the gun if you need it, and that you do not put anything inside the trigger guard unless you want to fire. I'm sure this was a decision made by someone having little familiarity with, and irrational fear of, guns.
Before, the idea was to get the plane on the ground, block takeoff, and stall. These are hijackers, they don’t do well at boredom. Feed the airline food, let the stink grow, and wait.
Now that the passengers know that crashing, the plane could be an option, they will not permit another hijacking.
We could encourage this with bounties. $10,000 per passenger per hijacker dead. $100,000 per passenger per hijacker alive. Friends, family, or other associates cannot collect. If they are instrumental in subduing the hijacker, the government will waive the death penalty. Mistakes, hoaxes, or other attempts to game the system may be deemed attempted air piracy.
Hundreds of millions of dollars to follow people who questioned mask mandates, while drug cartels and violence take over cities. Almost as if they wanted it that way.
The use of Quiet Skies, pervasive control of social media companies’ content, “former” intel officials dominating mainstream media: none of this is (was) about safety or security of Americans. It was about imposing top-down control of the Party over state and society. They could care less about how ordinary people fare on the streets. Their objective was consolidating the control of Western imperial interests over domestic politics.
no more need for this. we will have the “digital ID"
What would make them care less?
I really hate these bastards and their allies in the press who look the other way as long as the "right" people are harassed.
Almost? It's part of the Marxist playbook.
Exactly, Danno. The crime is by design.
May they all wear masks in perpetuity. Especially Fauci.
While alone in cars, with windows up, in 100 degree heat with a broken AC, and a radio stuck on AM.
Yes, and while taking a walk in their back yards on a windy, sunny day.
With people honking at them just to fuck with their sheep like heads.
Yea, masks with a ball gag!
Casinos and bars were essential business that could remain open. The risk of mass spreading events was null when protesting for a preferred narrative.
But woe unto you if you wanted to go to church. That was an arrestable offense.
Why should we be surprised? Appalled, sure. Surprised, hell no.
The government is very good at its job when you realize its job is to grift.
12 were placed on a watch list for removing their masks in-flight”
Yet, Democrat politicians are now criticizing ICE agents for wearing masks?
“Raised questions”, “raised eyebrows”, “has the hallmarks of”; Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
Pretty creepy.
The main response here is... Trump is the fascist?... Trump is the Authoritarian?...
Listen. I hate Trump, HATE!!! I can't believe we've sunk so low as a country that that idiot is our leader, but... He's our leader because of the alternatives.
C'mon, Turd... "HATE" is too strong... repulsive, obnoxious, arrogant, doesn't know when to shut up--fine, I may disagree but I get it. But "HATE" (all caps) does not make sense, at least it doesn't to me.
Sorry... HATE is right. I really don't like the man. I've worked for a couple of Fortune 500's that knew him, and they're personal opinions of the man met my from 100 miles away expectations.
SO, the Fortune 500 guys don't like him... A good buddy of mine on Wall St also reports that many think that Trump is an "asshole"... means nothing to me, I think Fortune 500 guys and WS guys are, kind of by definition, assholes, too, flaming, greedy narcissists all... I'm guessing they are mostly jealous that he outwits/outdeals/outlast them. Big money people are quite competitive, and don't like to get beat.
Bottom line: you don't have to like Trump personally (I've been a critic since Art of the Deal days, late 80s) to like his policy chops.. Just end the wars, bring home the jobs, and secure the border, and I'll be a happy guy.
Biggest point in Trump's favor: he has raised a fantastic family.. His kids and grandkids not only love him, but, surprisingly, none of them have turned out to be a train wreck a la Hunter Biden. How do you explain that?
Thank you Pacificus,
IT MAKES SENSE TO ME. I am still autistic and still a genius in logic. We haven't evolved with our technology. My wife studied science at the University of Chicago in a lab next to David Suzuki and his fruit flies. In 2024 we learned Columbus was a Jew fleeing another John Roberts court of Inquisition in Spain. Columbus was a JEW and a Celt living in the Basque. He was neither Italian nor was he a sailor. He was a refugee fleeing the Empire of Holy effing Rome.
My father told me the story 70 years ago and all my paternal relatives are (were) entitled to Spanish and Portuguese citizenship with DNA testing.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/world/columbus-origins-western-europe-study-intl/
C'mon Moe, you lovable old coot.. I hate to think that you are a hater... that's a lot of hate, let's get over it, the both of us..
Heard about that Columbus was a Jew thing... But not a sailor? What are you smoking up there in Quebec land??
Thank you Pacificus,
I am smoking Amsterdam Sativa (Organic Cherry Mints) and touring the Cosmos. I live near the Haskell Library. My wife lives inside her books. My wife is still a brilliant philosopher at 87. Robert Stanley Weir wrote Oh Canada here in Stanstead county. On Wednesday our helper went to the library to get my wife her books. Our helper needed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to help her find her way into the library. She had used the front entrance in the Derby line Vermont neighbourhood of Stanstead for over 50 years but on October first she was forced to use a door not intended for the public. I've been through South Dakota and Wall Drugs is South Dakota. Mount Rushmore is more myth than history. We have houses where the front door is in Vermont and the bedroom is in Canada and your Borg SS Chief Kkkristi Noem came and told us we would be assimilated. We are CANADIANS with our own histories and cultures and most of us will not be assimilated into your beehives. Most of Alberta and Saskatchewan immigration is from the south not across the sea and for many of them commodities have value and people are to be used to serve only greed and insatiable appetites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDFCBblV1Pk&list=RDFDFCBblV1Pk&start_radio=1
They are the chosen of the Earth. Calvinists and Mormons serving their brethren higher up the totem poles. It is was it is . I am a Jew and given power Mammon beats Jesus 8 days a week. Empires rise and fall and Russia has fallen and the United States is not far behind. Putin is all that holds Russia together and his best days are behind him. It took 70 years to learn how to write but I am fluent in AI. It is good to be me in 2025.
"Life is a comedy for those that think." The Earl of Orford
https://www.haskelloperahouse.org/
https://qcna.qc.ca/haskell-library-responds-to-kristi-noems-51st-state-remark/
https://www.sepaq.com/pq/mor/index.dot?language_id=1
https://www.bonjourquebec.com/en-ca/listing/to-see-and-do/parc-national-du-mont-orford/3mds
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Walpole
"where ignorance is bliss, t'is folly to be wise."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44301/ode-on-a-distant-prospect-of-eton-college
Notwithstanding my comment below (above?), I do want you to know that you are, indeed, my favorite turd, as we used to say...
Thank you Turd
You are a good shit and worthy of an old man's blessing,
What was the alternative a graduate of Westmount High School? Kamala Harris learned about real patriotism and the obligations of citizenship during Quebec's democratic revolution. Leonard Cohen led the country band and dreamed of a career in stand-up. We learned real history. We learned the holocaust began in Havana, on orders from Rome, Washington, London, and Berlin.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-st-louis
Today Leonard's face lights up our night sky not Cartier's Roman Cross
The Crusades WERE A DISASTER that began with a genocide of the Jews of the Rhineland and ended with the death of thousands of innocent women and children on the waY TO Jerusalem so Jesus could rule the world. St Augustine authored the Final Solution.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24669548
https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chrysostom_adversus_judaeos_01_homily1.htm
Saint Augustine and St John Chrysostom founded Christianity and the Final Solution was a BEEHIVE where everyone knew the Roman Salute.
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/02/rhineland-massacres-first-crusade/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Childrens-Crusade
In Quebec imagine we have no religion, no races and gender is analog not digital. In Quebec healthcare, education and welfare are HUMAN RIGHTS not privileges of the privileged. Our division is linguistic. It is either the language of Rome or the Language of central Europe and South Asia. Jesus was an Aramean and spoke the language of Arabia. There were no Jews or Arabs in the Court of Kings James one or two until Cromwell in 1653
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_of_the_Jews_in_England
Jefferson's Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth cites only European agents in its Gospels about Jesus of Palestine's birth in the City of Bread.
Makes a person think twice.
In Tulsi Gabbard's case, her "crime" was criticizing the joy of Kamala. And we just couldn't have that in America.
She was already labeled a Russian asset by Hillary Clinton as well
She criticized the joy of Hillary in 2016 by endorsing Bernie Sanders.
Good old Hillary marking every opponent a Russian asset……. It really does get old and repetitive! I’m amazed that she doesn’t realize how tired the American people are of hearing her same story for the past 10 years! Which have never been proven true! She is definitely from the dark side.
Classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Because she spoke to Republicans in the representatives gym while they were working out.
After she trounced Harris in the 2019 Democratic debates, I wondered if Tulsi Gabbard would rise to a more prominent spot in the Dem party. When Hillary doubled-down on her ‘Russian-asset’ accusations, I knew they had their knives out for her. The Democrats could “mean girl” their party into oblivion.
The Democrats SHOULD “mean girl” their party into oblivion.
I kinda like the push/pull of the two political parties. But since the Dems have canceled reality and refuse to roll back any of their disastrous and unpopular policies the course-correction will have to be involuntary. They’re betting the whole pot on triumphing in the midterms, taking back the White House and diving full-throttle into the same extreme policies, like a crackhead who’s won the lottery. It might be interesting, but it won’t be pretty.
Thank you Bill,
Leonard Cohen led the country band at Kamala's hIGH SCHOOL AND IN 2024 THERE IS NO RELIGION AT kAMALA'S hIGH sCHOOL A BEAUTIFUL HOUR'S WALK OVER THE MOUNTAIN FROM WHERE jOHN AND yOKO SANG. You can visit anytime. It is a PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL and it is a pride and joy of MY COMMUNITY. Our libraries have no Index Liborer Prohibitorum. We need teachers and librarians . Our schools overfloweth and our churches are turning into libraries where we are Freemasons looking to embrace other cultures and different knowledge.
https://westmount.emsb.qc.ca/whs
It wasn't that long ago that Woodie sang that Communist Anthem with his antifa guitar. Woodie loved our brother Jesus. Woodie died far too young
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bill-21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s&list=RDwxiMrvDbq3s&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=deportees+woody+guthrie
I can no longer walk over the mountain but if someone wants real exercise they can push my wheel chair. The hard part is the downhill and gravity I am still over six foot and 100 kilos.
Quiet Skies was an excuse to harass political opponents without oversight. Reminds me of a while back when Diane Feinstein got all upset that one of the spying programs was used against her.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/03/dianne-feinstein-upset-cia-spying-dianne-feinstein/
Meanwhile, she had an actual Chinese spy in her very close employ for years!!
Can’t even make this stuff up!
Our government is so damned corrupt. I hope this administration and stories like this can continue to shine a light so everyone wakes up. Thanks Matt.
Yes, and I’m still wondering, how was it that the first Trump administration did not do something about this in 2018 when it came to public attention? Another Mike Pence or Chris Ray whitewash?
Tulsi as the ODNI chief has a lot of power. She can produce agency legislation to take down use of Quiet Skies, the illegal mass surveillance infrastructure aimed at Americans and non-strategically at the entire world, and those concurrently running mind control programs used on military and civil personnel in the federal government.
I am proud of Tulsi Gabbard. She is a brave soldier for the United States. It takes a real warrior to wade through this and know it's not a personal attack, but friendly fire. I support every declaration she has to make to clean out the absolute pit of corruption in clandestine service. She deserves and needs your prayers. We should help her every chance we get.
Everyone knew before the pandemic (via several randomized trials) that masks are useless in stopping viruses. This is why Fauci, in one of his rare moments of truth, announced as much before reversing course into lies. And this is why many of us routinely went maskless using one artifice or another such as slowly eating a bag of peanuts for an entire flight. This episode of ignorance has now become even more hilarious knowing the government wasted resources spying on us. Hilarious, mind, primarily because those wasted resources were worthless anyway.
I remember walking in Hollywood (where I lived at the time) and having an angry Karen yell at me to “put on a mask!” on a beautiful sunshiny day. Meanwhile homeless people were lying in their own filth on the sidewalks being completely ignored. The government really pitted us against each other with irrational fear.
and remember there were literal calls for internment camps of unvaccinated and half the bloody country would have shrugged and said "they made their choice!". what a stain that was on humanity.
One $8 bag of trail mix = 3 hour flight
PEANUTS. ?? you killer you
Peanuts!
❤️🤣
And of course. Nobody will go to jail for this either. And until it happens to someone with actual power, this will keep happening.
As soon as we get Democrats back in the White House and Congress, all this stuff is going right back in—open borders, censorship, surveillance. Most people still don’t know anything about any of this because the news refuses to report on it, and they are too busy getting worked up about Gaza, trans rights, abortion, and ICE raids to consider anything else.
the solution?? make “as soon as”. never
This is vital.
Only magnified 2 to 3 times.
Don't underestimate Tulsi.
Don’t underestimate CIA’s ability to protect its domain.
It is shocking that the news media paid almost no attention to the surveillance of Tulsi Gabbard. When I heard aboutit, naively, I thought it would be a big story. It’s revealing that they either didn’t care or approved of this abusive conduct.
Imagine if it was Stacy Plaskett instead of Tulsi.....
I wish I could you say - you’re wrong. You aren’t. If it had been Rashida Talib , there would’ve been hysteria’
Who probably should be on a watchlist!!
Right - the MSM is ok with abusive conduct if the recipient of the abuse meets certain criteria.
At some point I hope 'MSM' is retired and replaced with something for descriptive. Maybe 'Propogandists' or 'SM', for 'State Media' would be better.
or Crockett.. or AOC. or that one with the turban...
Or Hill and Bill Clinton!
Every single person connected with the "Quiet Skies" and other government censorship and/or political harrassment programs initiated under the Biden Administration should be immediately added to the terrorist watchlist. Those are the people we need to keep an eye on.
It wasn't initiated under the Biden administration. And under Trump 1 it continued to operate, including expansions (e.g., deploying air marshals) under its "silent partner" designation.
Our leaders are morons. Removing a mask on a flight is "endangering the crew and passengers"??? Really? It would seem that ALLOWING A FLIGHT TO TAKE PLACE endangered everyone on there AND all the people in the place the flight was going to as a spreading event. So by their definition, the GOVERNMENT endangered EVERYONE. Which is not a surprise at all.
I remember kind of late in the pandemic, airplanes were like the last place people were forced to mask. The 'experts' told us what a catastrophe it would be if we removed the mask mandates -- but when we did, nothing happened. (Shocker!)
The weirdest part about that mandate is that you could take your mask off during flight to eat or drink. Sort of like you could take your mask off when you sat down at a restaurant but had to put it back on if you got up from your table. How did anyone not see this as anything but hygiene theater (which btw, "Hygiene Theater" was what I had written across my mask when forced to wear one).
Wish I had thought of that!😜
3 yo grandson had to be masked 😒
Talk about a cry fest....
but, but--we were allowed to remove our masks when we ate our supper on the plane.
m n m’s.. bags of chips one at a time. etc..
LOL
And a plane is probably one of the lowest risk environments because the air is not only filtered, but constantly refreshed. People think the cabin air is recycled because it's dry, but in fact it is continuously bled from the engine compressors and vented out through a regulated valve. My COVID paranoiac sister tried to convince me that planes had a high level of danger for the Wu flu because her doctor said so. He may know medicine but he doesn't know airplanes like I (aerospace engineer and naval flight officer) do.
Exactly. The plane rules weren't about risk, they were about control. The government has authority over the skies, so they could make you do the song and dance.
Just imagine if Trump had mandated mask wearing! They would have declard him crazy!
We never would have been forced to wear those absolutely useless things.
Damn, it's almost as if their "subtle approach" to airline security had a completely different agenda...DUH.
The Autopen Era was such a great opportunity for them. Now we truly know what they are capable of.
Thank you Matt. Your consistent and even-handed reporting always makes me glad to be a longtime supporter. And thank God for Tulsi Gabbard, who stays strong. I'm no Libertarian but Rand Paul seems to be the most consistently honest Senator
"I'm no Libertarian but"
Ironically, not being a real libertarian is part of what makes you a libertarian.
Hmm I'll have to think about that 🙂
Covid masking was an obedience test.
The jab was for "advanced" credit.
My husband served for 27 years, is now a Government contractor, highest security clearance you can get in civilian world, Global Entry ID & Passport, never a part of any protest, & he got the SSSS on his boarding pass & got the "additional search " on our flight in 2021 I believe. He served this country his entire life. Doesnt even cuss, smoke barely drinks besides a glass of wine & not even a speeding ticket. It was the biggest F-U by the Biden administration.
well then. he needs a cigar, a bottle of bourbon and a fast car damn it
I’ve gotten those as well, I think some passengers are randomly selected.
Good luck today, Matt.
Hope it's not the typical kangeroo hearing with idiots like Stacey Plaskett.
There is a way to protect the pilots and passengers without the falderol. Just allow the good ole boys to carry. They would have stopped it all on 9/11 without any difficulty.
More likely the CIA would have needed another plan.
They did implement a program to arm pilots after 9/11, but there was at least one unintentional discharge due to the design of the holster they required them to use, which had a padlock through the trigger guard(!). Anyone with a decent knowledge of guns could tell you that this is massive overkill for retention, highly impractical for actually using the gun if you need it, and that you do not put anything inside the trigger guard unless you want to fire. I'm sure this was a decision made by someone having little familiarity with, and irrational fear of, guns.
The Good Ole Boys in know in North Georgia don't have trigger guards on their weapons. Their Dads taught them better.
That would surprise me because pretty much every gun does unless it has a spur trigger or it’s been cut off like in a Fitz special.
We don’t even have to do that.
Before, the idea was to get the plane on the ground, block takeoff, and stall. These are hijackers, they don’t do well at boredom. Feed the airline food, let the stink grow, and wait.
Now that the passengers know that crashing, the plane could be an option, they will not permit another hijacking.
We could encourage this with bounties. $10,000 per passenger per hijacker dead. $100,000 per passenger per hijacker alive. Friends, family, or other associates cannot collect. If they are instrumental in subduing the hijacker, the government will waive the death penalty. Mistakes, hoaxes, or other attempts to game the system may be deemed attempted air piracy.