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California Mayor Forced to Hand Over Electronics and Passwords at Airport, Compares U.S. To Nazi Germany
Submitted by Mike Krieger of LibertyBlitzkrieg
California Mayor Forced to Hand Over Electronics and Passwords at Airport – Compares U.S. to Nazi Germany
“I think the American people should be extremely concerned about their personal rights and privacy. As I was being searched at the airport, there was a Latino couple to my left, and an Asian couple to my right also being aggressively searched. I briefly had to remind myself that this was not North Korea or Nazi Germany. This is the land of the Free.
– Anthony Silva, Mayor of Stockton, California
Just in case you’re still under the infantile illusion that you reside in a free country.
From ArsTechnica:
Stockton, California Mayor Anthony R. Silva attended a recent mayor’s conference in China, but his return trip took a bit longer than usual. At the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) this week, agents with the Department of Homeland Security detained Silva and confiscated his personal cell phone among other electronics. According to comments from the mayor, that may not even be the most alarming part.
“Unfortunately, they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property,” Silva told SFGate. “In addition, they were persistent about requiring my passwords for all devices.”
The mayor’s attorney, Mark Reichel, told SFGate that Silva was not allowed to leave the airport without forfeiting his passwords. Reichel was not present for Silva’s interaction with the DHS agents, either. The mayor was told he had “no right for a lawyer to be present” and that being a US citizen did not “entitle me to rights that I probably thought,” according to the paper.
Evidently, Silva was well aware of the situation and only had his concerns heightened by first-hand experience. Talking to SFGate, he briefly compared the government battle on privacy to notorious dictatorships worldwide.
“I think the American people should be extremely concerned about their personal rights and privacy,” Silva told the paper. “As I was being searched at the airport, there was a Latino couple to my left, and an Asian couple to my right also being aggressively searched. I briefly had to remind myself that this was not North Korea or Nazi Germany. This is the land of the Free.”
This is not what freedom looks like.
Of course, I’ve written a lot on the dangers of the Department of Homeland Security over the years. Fears which are coming home to roost in spades. See:
The “War on Terror” Turns Inward – DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat
Former DHS Chief Privacy Officer Was Regularly Called a “Terrorist” by the Intelligence Community
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Passwords for all devices? Must be North Korea. Or the land of the free.
Privacy is treason in a fascist, police state
Land of the fee and home of the slave
thank the muslims every time you fly.
Really? You're too funny pal... Good one...
Let tyranny force the hand of Revolution.
Well, looks like I'm going to have to change my passwords to FU_and_the_TSA before I go through customs just in case they ask me for my password
"... there was a Latino couple to my left, and an Asian couple to my right..."
"Hey you got fins (Latino couple) to the left, fins (Asian couple) to the right, You're the only girl in town." - Jimmy Buffett - Fins
Ned Beatty thought he was just going for a canoe trip too.
Tough shit Sherlock, now squeal like a pig.
Still did not find the Opium, did they?
The TSA Spangled Manner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSmiaMknuJc
Oh say can you see TSA touching me...
my password is always TSAAreFatChicksWithSmallDicks
Or you could make your password: "I Bet On The Superbowl in 1989".
That way if they try and force you to reveal it you can say you have the right under the Fifth Amendment not to incriminate yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Const...
(I know, I know, Constitution LOL)
"...I briefly had to remind myself that this was not North Korea or Nazi Germany. This is the land of the Free..."
You poor, pathetic, deluded fucking CHUMP. Who told you that - CNN? Fox? NYT?
Dear Anthony Silva:
Knuckle-dragging fools like YOU are the problem. Wake the fuck up!
Hugs and kisses,
Pave
Saying he thought this is the land of the free shows he is a typical progressive dumbass. Which, of course, makes him a prototypical elected official.
Stocton, CA ?
How many times has that shithole gone broke in the last 20 years?
Does flying their fucking Mayor to China to get drunk at a 'convention' instead of using Skype have anything to do with it?
Mayors have no rights outside of their their title.
Check out the special rights given to the mayor of DC.
Marion Berry?
Next time I go to the airport Im going to change all my passwords to "FuCk YoU PiGs" and answer them honestly if they ask for my passwords.
Of course this is the land of the free and I have all the licenses and permits to prove it.
This doesn't happen to be one of those Cali mayors who pays himself $850,000 a year?
If you step foot into a major airport you have no rights, so why would anyone with a functioning brain ever go there?
If this were NAZI Germany, there wouldn't be fucking Jews in positions of power all over the nation...
Sarcasm? Right? This is sarcasm yeah?
I find it hard to believe that Nid is so unaware of the truth of the Nazi regime.
Land of the freeee...
to suck jew bankster cock.
Next time I go to the airport Im going to change all my passwords to "FuCk YoU PiGs" and answer them honestly if they ask for my passwords.
lol
Actually, that could be kind of fun. Change each device to the phrase you'd like to say "SuckMyDickYouTraitorousFag", "FuckOffAndDieYouPuerileToadieDouchebag", "IHopeEveryoneYouLoveDiesAHorribleSlowDeathRightInFrontOfYourEyes", and "YouReallyShouldBeStuffedInADrumInTheDesertYouCommunistButtLicker" in those cases, I'd be happy to tell them my passwords .... :)
He's a little slow on the uptake, isn't he?
Maybe it is his narcissists R US syndrome that thinks it isn't a problem a until **SHOCK** what has happened to everyone else for years is now happening to him.
This schmuck thought he was part of "The Club."
The minion quislings always do.
Maybe he was in on it and it is all for show and conditioning.
Exactly. Anyone seen Mayor McCheese of late?
From 1968 until 8 yrs ago, it was the conservative white scared as shit assholes who complied with laying the groundwork for this police state! Before that there was McCarthy. Familiarize yourself with actual history before you comment. BTW, there is nothing progressve about the Obama admin. Just a bunch of lipsmack with the other fascists across the aisle.
Badmouth McCarthy.
Badmouth Assad.
Badmouth Gadaffi.
Badmouth Koresh.
Is there any government propaganda that you've not embraced?
No, McCarthy wasn't perfect. He thought the threat was external.
No, Himmler wasn't perfect. He thought the threat was external. I've lived on the edge of the law most of my life. I know who was doing what! But go ahead and cling to your idealism.
this police state has its roots farther back than you imply. let me pick on the democrats who helped as well (though their being "progressive" is an iffy business).
woodrow wilson, first dem elected since grover cleveland, Espionage Act of 1917 from which the human turd obama claims to draw many powers to hurt u.s. citizens.
fdr, generally thought the savior of the working man and who did accomplish some good things imo, forced citivzens to turn in their gold and, worse by far, put japanese citizens in concentration camps. didn't burn them up though so that's something.
harry truman, against the strong advice of his secretary of state george marshall, encourageed the formation of the state of israel, the gift that keeps on giving (see dancing israelis and 9-11).
lyndon johnson, passed the civil rights acts but also helped kill jfk and totally sided with israel in the six day war, destroying any even handed mideast policy inherited from ike and jfk. probably helped kill rfk and blame it on palestinians.
jimmy carter, this is probably unintentional but still: helped menachem begin neutralize the threat of egypt and, foolishly, bought the promises of begin for palestinian justice when all he and most israelis ever wanted was to divide their enemies for the good of greater israel.
clinton, helped banksters dismantle some of the good fdr banking laws and accomplished nothing with mideast peace (was getting bj when talking to arafat on phone).
so it really is more of a mixed bag than you think.
What isn't mentioned in the article is how the Mayor's name came up for special treatment at immigration, or did he say or do something to bring this on, like mouth off aboout constitutional rights (which don't exist at airports anymore, I believe)?
Good point, we should always blame the victime for the crime. Should be a built-in reflex, in the land of the free.
A. He was doing something he should not have been which caused "authorities" to be suspicious. He deserved it.
B. If you are honest and not a terrorist you have nothing to worry about. I look forward to cameras in my home one day, myself.
C. They are from the government and they are here to help us. God bless the TSA.
D. If the government just had the necessary power, numbers of police and fully funded agencies, 9-11 would have never happened. In fact, nothing bad in life will happen with enough agencies, police and funding. Please tax me more.
I love these guys.
He should have told them don't come near him since he has friends in "high places," including top SS officals like Senator Nancy Botox.
Just to keep things straight, Hizzoner was dealing with the Customs / border control wing(s) of Homeland Security, not with the fucking TSA.
It's long been established that no one except a diplomat has a "right" to bring stuff across the US border, and have it be exempt from search.
but what is being searched for? the contents of his electronics? really? with no probable cause? this doesn't strike you as overreach? even poor use of employee time?
i mean these ding dongs work for the guys that did 9-11. don't ever forget that. this is inside job work. rule of man not rule of law.
and what good does it do even the diplomat if the shits claim the right to bomb any country anytime anywhere and change its government because its not sufficiently "free" or "democratic". really just "because obama". and "because bush, cheney, rumsfeld, cia, mossad, etc." before.
to put things in perspective:
https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-the-911-whistleblowers/
https://usahitman.com/wbdct911/
http://www.infowars.com/cia-killed-phillip-marshall-for-leaking-911-secr...
Mayor Tony was probably one of those annoying kids in student council when in jr high and high school. And I wonder if he cheered when 'we' waged war after 9/11. - - Well, wake the fuk up buddy boy. Whether you consider yourself D or R or whatever. This Nazi police state is the result of having millions of clueless dolts in the USA.
Oh he's a D, alright. The article(s) I've read don't state it. That's how you know, just like when the 'teens' riot. I stopped flying the week they announced 'enhanced patdowns'(Jan, 2009), illegal search by another name. They had already illegally searched a relative before that.
Didn't work on ZH
Hey, look on the bright side - almot half the DHS Stazi hate their shitty 'control the little people' jobs.
No One’s Morale Is Dropping Faster Than Homeland Security
Jeh Johnson - Israel's little house-boy in the Stazi. Favorite phrase to citizens: "Fuck the U.S. constitution - I run the Stazi now, bitch! You answer to ME (uh... and Uncle Bibi)."
Holy mother of God... the U.S. Ministry of the Interior has a quarter MILLION employees? Heinrich Himmler would pee his pants if he was still alive. That's not a state police force, it's a fucking ARMY.
In other words, the beatings will continue until Stazi morale improves, 'cause everyone loves to be in the Stazi. Whistleblowers will continue to be summarily executed, er... disappeared. And any Stazi employees caught reading Zero Hedge will be terminated (beastiality downloads are permitted, but limited to 2GB per week).
Hey, Jeh: You can't reproduce the SS without having cool uniforms like the real SS did. IDF black tactical just makes your employees look like... well, IDF troops.
Sounds like we might be at war with China
I'm not at war with China.
I like my China, I eat off of it every day!
HELP WORLD OVERPOPULATION
EAT CHINESE
I'm not at war with China either. My wife is Chinese, and I eat...uh, Chinese food...frequently. Never takes long before I want more.
Everyone gets hungry again an hour after eating chinese food, thanks captain obvious.
Jeez bro. He wasn't even talkin' about food, if you only paid attention to his freaking JOKE!
His wife is a hot Chinese gal and thus he eats chinese most nights... Lucky guy! (maybe)
OK?
Truxton must have never eaten at the Y.
It loses something when you have to explain it.
We've always been at war with Oceania. Where ya been?
That gives me an idea: Why not yell, "rape," when being groped by the TSA?
Last time a TSA agent gave me a patdown, I said: "Don't touch me unless you love me." The patdown then ended abruptly and I was allowed to board my plane.
you sure got a pretty mouth boy!
https://thatguybloke.wordpress.com
that was funny
Or maybe change them to I_Don't_Know!
ICE:What's your password?
ME: Are you allowed to ask that?
ICE: You're not leaving until you tell us, so what is your password?
ME: I don't know!
ICE: Don't mess with us. We can lock you up. What is it?
ME: Really - I don't know!
ICE: Cut the crap. Tell us now!
ME: I DON'T KNOW! Now let me go!
ICE: Not until.....
Could lead to a lot of wasted time.
Last time I was unable to avoid travelling through US, I reformatted my spare laptop and only put on it what I really needed. Made sure ZH was not one of my bookmarks!
I had to travel to the states for a funeral. Left all my electronics at home.
Still spent for effing hours in customs. They pulled and went through every items in my luggage while they played a million questions. For hours later they told me I could go, and then expected me to track all the crash they took out and pulled up haphazardly.
I can only imagine the hassle if I wasn't Caucasian.
Question Reality "I can only imagine the hassle if I wasn't Caucasian."
You don't understand the way things are.
You were hassled because you WERE caucasian.
Perhaps that is the new truth. I recognize as a youth the position of privilege simply because of how I was born. I'm actually kind of glad if it's flip flopping. Let the rest of the work understand how others have been.
And as this tendency continues, perhaps it will hit true heights and heads will roll as the blood of the oligarchy flows in the streets.
I was told by my IT security department not to reveal passwords to anyone else. I'm following the government's own NIST and FISMA guidelines. So go fuck yourself TSA and Homeland.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-118/draft-sp800-118.pdf
3.1.3 User Knowledge and Behavior Passwords may be captured by taking advantage of user knowledge and behavior. When users enter passwords into a computer, the passwords can be captured through non-technical means such as shoulder surfing—simply watching a user type a password.
This particular invasion of privacy has a very easy response...
"I don't recall."
Just tell them you keep your passwords written down at home and that you destroyed your travel copy. They cannot keep you for something you are legitimately claiming not to have.
"To the best of my recollection it's C-O-W-P-I-E"
Try again.
"To the best of my recollection it's E-F-F-Y-O-U."
Try again.
"To the best of my recollection it's G-E-T-A-W-A-Y-N-A-Z-I."
Try again.
Repeat indefinately.
Not all is as it seems with this limo-trashing juvenile mayor who tried to turn his private security into his personal police force.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/02/19/limo-carrying-stockton-mayor-a...
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/03/24/stockton-mayor-turns-over-priv...
And then there is the sexual battery thing.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/stockton-mayor-anthony-silva-under-063152554...
What are trying to discredit the guy now? Are you a paid shill?
No. Just a skeptic. It comes from having uncovered lots of fraud and embezzlements over my career, and from having hung out with some politicians years ago. Stockton went through a bankruptcy and the place is a gangland haven. I would never live there. While I agree that there should have been a warrant, I don't necessarily believe this guy is telling it like it is.
There has been a lot of "smoke" surrounding this guy. The skeptic in me finds it difficult to believe there is no fire.
End this Federal .Gov joke NOW!
Even though Silva is a Republican, he must be a Hillary fan. He has also used his personal email to avoid public scrutiny and has not turned them over.
According to the records the city sent News10, Silva did not send a single message from his city email account for the entire months of May and June. It's clear that he did send messages dealing with city business, but when he did, he used his personal AOL account or texted from his cell phone. After more than two months, the city did provide some emails from the mayor's personal email account. Most were related to the mayor's recruitment of volunteers for an advisory committee. Those emails included a few dozen people congratulating the mayor on the election or saying they were interested in serving on the committee. There was nothing related to day-to-day business or the serious challenges facing the city. In a cover letter that accompanied four business meails turned over later, the city questioned the assertion that the messages were public. http://www.abc10.com/story/news/investigations/watchdog/2014/02/21/stock...
He doesn't deal with classified email, so I don't see the issue.
Also, it is not the first time Silva was intentionally stopped at the airport. He also was detained briefly for a much more limited search while going through customs in Sacramento this summer, at the end of a trip to Monterrey, Mexico. It is all part of an ongoing investigation and I find it unlikely that he has no clue about an investigation considering it is the second time he was stopped at an airport. It was an agent from Homeland Security that took Silva's electronics. http://www.recordnet.com/article/20151002/NEWS/151009924?template=printart
And the limo incident was a bit more serious than just an argument. Silva's friend, Curtis Mitchell, was arrested for "bloodying a female companion [his fiance] and causing major damage to the vehicle." ... “Call Vinnie at the FBI and he’ll get me out of these handcuffs in two minutes,” Mitchell told officers, according to the CHP report. “Vinnie will make you pay. Don’t you know who I was with tonight? I was with the Mayor. He’ll take care of me.” According to the report, two men and two women were in the back of the limousine when officers arrived. The CHP redacted names of all witnesses before releasing the report. As he drove south, the driver said he began to smell marijuana smoke wafting from the passenger compartment and heard loud banging on the glass. The driver said he never saw “the mayor smoking anything.” Silva said during Friday’s interview, “Nobody used any drugs in my presence. That’s a fact. I’m allergic to cigarette smoke and marijuana smoke.” The driver said he finally closed the partition separating him from the passenger compartment, called 911, pulled off Highway 99 at Twin Cities Road, and circled around a Raley’s supermarket parking lot while he waited for officers to arrive. “They were so intoxicated I don’t even think they knew where they were,” the driver said when asked if the passengers asked him why he had pulled off the highway. “No one even realized it.”
http://www.recordnet.com/article/20150506/NEWS/150509761
http://www.recordnet.com/article/20150221/NEWS/150229922?template=printart
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/02/19/limo-carrying-stockton-mayor-a...
A search warrant is still required before you can just steal things.
No search warrant is needed at the US border.
Honest! You can look it up.
was the 'bloodying the female companion' and act of busting her gold digging cherry?
Seems like his talents are not being fully utilized as mayor. He needs to run for congress.
He will fit right in.
A libertarian solution to this mess is to offer a competing way to travel other than airplanes. When someone invents the Transporter as envisioned on Star Trek, this will all end.
Or... As the mayor of a podunk, bankrupt, little town - DON'T GO TO CHINA ON THE TAX PAYER'S DIME. Problem solved.
If someone invents one, it will be illegal for Joe Public to own one, for sure.
Can't go putting all those fine TSA chappies out of a job, now!
You must have your tackle felt before teleportation will be written into law.
It will be 'for your own good' of course.
Doctor Who never has to pass through customs.
Youre missing the point.
Its a police state.
They can do any damned thing they want, until the police state no longer exists.
Exactly right.
The USA is off my list of holiday destinations, along with North Korea, Saudi Arabia and Israel.
It's only a police state if you and the rest of the population submit to illegal actions.
Welcome to the party, asshole.
Guess the major didn't like being treated like a common person.
Hope the TSA gave him a rubber glove frisk.
Too bad Nancy Pelosi doesn't go through this.
dupe
"Really? You're too funny pal... Good one..."
He's talking about Obama, Holder, et.al. ...
Oh I didn't realize they wrote the patriot act. I swore that was the Bush admin and the neo-Cons. Obstensibly DHS was created to fight turrirism.
I would like to see how many times this fuck head voted to expand the gov't in some way or another.
What part of what I wrote was wrong? Or did I rain on your fascist kill the poor and work with the rich togain power type posts in other threads? I believe in minimal government especially the centralized kind. What I do NOT support is removing things that help the poor PRIOR to removing the parasites in power who have been destroying this country and making jobs scarce. Or do you not believe in small government (preferably localized) in a capitalist system within a Republic bound by the rule of law? Because that is what I believe in and want. I want the power elite's socialism done away with FIRST before we get rid of things like SNAP. I for one don't want a civil war and that is what you court when you remove the safety net before dealing with the problem of parasitic elite transnationalists. Of course your posts all tilt towards a civil war where scapegoats are executed in favor of some sort of white power movement so I'm glad you don't like me. I believe in rule of law and a strong capitalist republic with limited government. I hope one day you see that it is the only option we know works.
Lol, two down votes against a capitalist republic with rule of law and limited government. You guys must be jealous of the current Fascists' success and want to displace them.
Liberty is the freedom to be secure in one's person and one's psyche. This is well-trodden ground. The TSA officials may have been misinformed as to rights and responsibilities, which can be addressed with remedial training. But that doesn't mean we aren't all more secure in our persons and our psyches when they do their jobs, part of which involves securing all electronic devices, scouring said devices for information useful to security and safety.
Let's all cooperate for furthering a safer, saner planet.
You forgot a few Goebbels: Nice (hopefully) Sarc however..
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Might I make a suggestion.....
If you plan to fly anywhere, DO NOT try saying that to the friendly goon with the box of rubber gloves!
Could spoil your whole day.
You are, of course correct, but that hasn't mattered for a long time.
I feel it's my duty to inform you, that i'm HIV positive.
Lighten up Francis
How do you discern what part of your post people downvote?
Sigh. Syrin was referring to the mayor, not you.
Exactly. I got that too...why didn't anyone else???
My bad. I was like wtf is he talking about. Seemed random to reply to me.
Then maybe they're finally doing their job!
Since the US is the biggest supporter of terrorists worldwide and biggest terrorist nation in the world, then taking down the government would fullfill their obligations. Damn. And to think a government agency is actually doing it's job.
The Patriot Act was authored by Joe Biden many moons before 9-11.
You may want to get your "facts" straight.
Could be very tricky when you need to tell them that your password is TSASucksAss01.
My password is IFORGOT
Enter it in lowercase twice and the solid state HD is erased/unrecoverable. Fuckem.
Instantly
I once had to hand over my iPad and I had a 3 time wrong password app installed that erased the tablet.
Everythings in the cloud so it only takes me 2 minutes to get it all back but when they asked me my passwords I just gave them 3 veriations of the password that where wrong so it deleted itself :)
I had a reason of course because the iPad was loaded with a shitload of downloaded movies and mp3's :)
And that's how people should just do it.
Install google drive, get your shit on there and install the erase app.
First thing thought of was they get the passwords and then download some child porn, then say "oh look what we found".
Man in NC just got twenty years for child porn.
Right, give your stuff to Google. It's safe and secure there, I'm sure, beyond the reach of .GOV.
That's why they wanted to search his IPad. Google had issued a global Interpol warning on him.
Put your shit on google drive and you're all safe?
This is so stupid I'm still pondering if that was sarcasm.
Awesome idea. The NSA could NEVER find it on the "cloud". Whatever the fuck that is.
And anything uploaded to googledrive, iclod, dropbox, etc. is already available for them to access.
Better to put it on a micro-SD card and stuff it into something innocuous, like dirty socks.
Unless you only have iTard devices, in which case you're already an open book. Now you know why apple doesn't allow external memory cards.
thanking the zionazis is much more apprpriate.
wrong religion
"thank the muslims every time you fly."
Bullshit, troll.
That was the excuse, not the reason. Full spectrum dominance over US citizens is the goal, as you know perfectly well.
"Every day brings us one day closer to the day of reaction to tyranny;
and dealing with despots."
I can't remember who said that, I know it was uttered just before the French Revolution.
Wake up, the muslims didn't do it. Use your brain
Four chan: "thank the muslims every time you fly"
NO.
"Thank" the fascists who have used the muslims as an excuse to destroy the US Constitution and turn the US into a police state
Exactly. Nice to see the F word making a comeback. That's precisely what we are dealing with. Socialism for the elites bread and circuses for the poor. Both eat away at society. The second is merely a symptom of the former. We need to deal with this at the root cause.
And who have and continue to import them to this country in droves?
If you lived somewhere that was having the fuck bombed out of it, you might consider moving too.
The solution to all the immigration crap is to stop arsing about with other countries.
You break it, you bought it...
thank the muslims every time you fly.
Thank the PNAC everytime you fly. There, fixed it for you.
Muslims aren't the problem. Obedience is.
Go back to Israel and peddle your propaganda elsewhere.
sad that comment got 60 odd upvotes
You have to file a claim against the individuals that took your property. They violated their oaths to support and uphold the Constitution. Your unalienable rights are your personal property and they were seized without a warrant. That supports a claim of damage to you property simply under the laws of equity. The Mayor should get a Private Attorney General to help him with the process in the courts.
Sue the Bastards!!
The key is going after them as individuals not as TSA agents. Any words on how you would file a claim against a TSA agent as an individual for a violation of their oath?
Full employment for the marginally employable. Soon they will be out of work and will be dumpster diving.
You'd have to look carefully at any oath taken by them to figure that out.
You would then have to ask yourself whether or not you believe the courts would serve you fairly.
You would then grab yourself a strong drink and accept that you would be wasting your time.
Rule of Law, yeah, right.
Look up Affidavits and Liens in the U.C.C. (Uniform Commerical Code)
Have done a lot of research on that, and may aspects of common law.
Trouble is the bought-off by the system judges will, at a minimum, ignore you, or will more likely threaten you.
They can fuck with you in many more ways than you can fuck with them.
Tread carefully.
I know this to be the case.
The problem with this is that with most countries (and possibly the USA) have a completely different set of rules for the border areas.
In other words, at a border crossing there are no rights or law other than what the federal border regulations prescribe. This is common. It sucks, however it is just one more area of loss of rights for the average citizen.
The guy was a CALIFORNIA MAYOR, for chrissake - they should have cavity searched his poop chute as well - right up to the tonsils.
It's for the children, y'know.
Dangerous motherfuckers, those Cali politicos...................
This is the land of the Free.
LOL - fucking idiot.
"As I was being put against the bullet pock-marked wall and tied to a bull ring, I had to remember as they raised their rifles that this was America, the land of the free."
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most powerful tool in the hands of the opressor is the minds of the opressed.
Steve Biko
However the propaganda from the military is that they are keeping us free by fighting over "there". Without them, we would be, beheaded in a fortnight.
If the military weren't 'over there' bothering the people, the people 'over there' would not be bothering us 'over here'
Not too hard a concept to understand.
USA, the biggest, the most efficient and the best funded terrorist organization in the world.
The weird part when I go to America is always the borders.
In Europe, those at border control are almost sleeping and when you want to talk to them they're looking at you with eyes that say "Leave me the fuck alone please"
You just walk passed them without problems, they're friendly, and if you pass the metal detectors they help you get your stuff and they're friendly and you can chitchat with them and make a joke.
Thank you, have a nice trip and enjoy the flight sir!
then you fly the plan...
and you land in America... where they look at you like you're a terrorist and where they think they need to be as rude as possible to you.
Border control is just a violation! They're rude pig, totally unfriendly and they actually look at you with hate in their eyes.
And god forbid if you talk to one of those pigs....
And I've seen how America changed in the last decade and how it should be and was by looking how we work in Europe.
Everything is totally different.
Being friendly in America is weird. And god forbid if you touch them!! My god!!!
The number of times I felt like spitting in their eyes is almost... every time I go to America.
And in Europe? Here they actually try their best to make sure you enjoy your flight and the time in the airport.
And the food is way better also over here :)
Israeli security outfits trained the U.S. TSA. What did you expect?
Great comment SD. I would suggest next time you need to get to the US of A that you fly to Mexico and then sneek across- its a lot easier and the custom agents speak your language as a courtesy.
The last time I travelled through US from Europe to Canada was THE LAST TIME I TRAVEL THROUGH US.
Spent 9 miserable hours in the shit hole known as LaGuardia having suffered a shuttle bus from JFK. The shuttle experience felt like I was in a comedy show where nobody was laughing. Entering US as a Canadian was bad enough, but watching the BS the Europeans had to deal with made me glad I wasn't in that line. Miserable fuck border control dude just tried to stare me down, fucking arsehole. Got to Canada - at least the border control guy hadn't had the nerves to his smile muscles surgically severed - actually said 'welcome back to Canada'.
I've found the most pain-free way to fly into The Homeland is via Vancouver BC.
Vancouver obviously is not the USA, but the Canadian customs and border guys are reasonable, and with most onward flights to the USA, you are cleared by American customs/border guys operating within the Vancouver airport, where they seem to largely lose the bad-ass attitude that their colleagues often have in LA or NYC.
Happy Flying!
Last I checked, Stockton is broke. WTF is this clown flying to China for anyway? China, for a "Mayors Conference?" Last I checked the taxpayers of this country have a right not to fly jack wagons to China.
that's a dumb thing to say. maybe you think that the mayor should just sit in his office and hope the situation improves.
i wish that all government workers would quit and/or be fired, but if there IS going to be a mayor, then going somewhere and trying to get business for his town would be a reasonable and useful thing to do, if in fact that's what he was doing.
Not his job clown. His job is to oversee the supervision of the financial management of the city. He can make the economic environment conducive to some minor degree for businesses but that is a moot point because we're talking about CA which is anti-business as much as is, conceivable. In other words, its his responsibility to see that the city doesn't go bankrupt, not help it go bankrupt by wasting taxpayers money. He was doing what all politicians do and that is sup at the taxpayers tit for whatever bennies he can.
The CA high speed rail, equipment to possibly be to be built by the Chinee has several junctions in Stockton, meaning the guy is also laboring under the duress of Obama (ie taxpayer) money ... Boondoogle of Boondoggles .... absolute waste of money. Should be building desal plants up and down the coast, but Oh Fucking No!
Y'all know why?
Because you get just a few feet West of the Mississippi, actually west of the Rockies, and Water Become Big Fucking Business!!!!!!
Y'all get the picture.
Yeah, LA to SF in 90 minutes. Ticket counter to boarding/moving, 90 more minutes and no extra charge for the anal probe.
High speed rail, can't wait....
drunk Mexicans pass out on the rails and get run over monthly some kinda drunking game for bored aliens, it happens so often it's a cliche'
this is why i quit flying...life is ok if you don't fly...really it is...like life is ok if you don't have cable...really is it...
This shit is coming to a railroad station near you.
Already here, couple years ago went for a guys weekends in chicago on the train may have had some party favors on me and they had dogs swarming the entrance to the train. My buddy caused a good enough disturbance and I was able to sneak by the dogs and jump on. Fun times!
OK so you quite flying. Maybe you should stop driving because of illegal immigration checkpoints. Then you can stop walking because jaywalk laws and Treyvon shit. Then you can stop eating because Bloomberg soda rules. Stop gathering sunlight on your solar collectors. Stop harvesting rainwater. Don't grow veggies on your front lawn. Don't say or blog anything.
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