Guest Post by Eric Peters
Sexing up the police state isn’t easy – but Lincoln’s trying.
Ford’s luxury line now offers – scratch that, includes as standard equipment – a “complimentary” membership in CLEAR, which is the Department of Homeland Security’s “fast” and “efficient” biometric cattle tag program, already in use at public airports and other public-access venues.
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But not, it’s worth a mention, at private-access airports – i.e., general aviation, where the Heimatsicherheitsdeinst (that’s Homeland Security Department in the more appropriate – and original – German) does not fondle and grope, nor body scan travelers rich enough to avoid public air travel. This includes, of course, the politicians who gave us the Heimat and the Sicherheitsdeinst.
But not themselves.
Naturlich.
Just as they exempted themselves from the strictures of Obamacare.
Which is, as Charlie Chan used to say, very interesting.
Maybe the ululating “enemies of freedom” we are constantly menaced by – so we’re told – are too broke to afford a charter flight for their evildoing. They fly coach. This, at any rate, appears to be the thinking. If we assume that preventing “terrorism” via airplane is the true purpose of the TSA.
Which of course, it’s not.
Anyhow.
Instead of presenting his papers, old timey-style – and being interrogated (and felt up) by a blue-uniformed government goon until he’s satisfactorily passed his Submission Training session – the lucky Lincoln owner will be greeted curbside by a helpful CLEAR “team member” – we’re all just one big team, you know – who will then “escort” him to a “dedicated” CLEAR lane, where the “customer” (yes, they actually use that term) will step up to a special kiosk for speedier processing via iris scan and fingerprint.
Do this just the once and your unique biological signature will be recorded forever – allegedly in order to hasten your transit through the Heimat. In actuality, to make it easier for the organs of the Heimat to keep tabs on you forever – and not just at the airport. Once your eyes have been scanned, you can be scanned anywhere there is a scanner. Which is eventually going to be everywhere – and already well on the way.
The sell is that you’ll “bypass the usual long lines” and “walk through security in minutes every time.” Temple Grandin – the famous animal behaviorist – developed a similar technique, intended to soothe cattle making the transition from four hoofs on the ground to sides of beef hanging in the meat locker.
Keep them calm – and make the trip more enjoyable.
Two hooves or four, the end goal is the same. And it’s not in the best interests of the cows.
“We are thrilled to be part of Lincoln’s vision to enhance its clients’ lives in new and exciting ways,” exults CLEAR CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker. “There’s a natural fit between our shared focus on making travel simpler at every step along the customer journey.”
Mark that. The “customer journey.”
Just like Temple Grandin’s happy cows.
It’s all logical, as inevitable as C follows B follows A. First, normalize the outrageous. Get people used to affronts, most especially intrusions upon their privacy and personal space without cause.
Routinize the rifling of their possessions, first. Then, compel them to accept being routinely touched – again, without cause – by government workers; and not merely touched, but violated in the most personal way imaginable short of actual insertion. Make them endure this being done to their wives and children, while they stand by, helpless and degraded.
Treat people who’ve done nothing exactly as if they had. Take it a step further and compel them to prove they haven’t done anything as a condition of being treated – after the fact – as innocent.
It was once the case that only those who’d been charged with a serious crime – a felony – were subject to being fingerprinted. Now, we’re being conditioned to accept being fingerprinted and retina-scanned as a luxury by Lincoln.
Such is life in the Heimat.
Wait till they begin the persecution of those who will not submit to things like this. That’s when the real “fun” begins. All these are written in the Revelation at the end of every Bible. Yes indeed. The total invasion of privacy and the persecution/imprisonment/killing of those who will not willingly submit is clearly expressed there and is just around the corner.
But, not for those who trust Jesus today. We will be taken to be with Him in heaven first. Then this horror will begin in earnest. The ark of safety is getting ready to set sail. Trust in Jesus now to be saved from death to life and the tribulation that is coming on the whole world.
Maranatha!!
Blessings:-}
I used to do a lot of frequent air travel for my job. I had to get pre-check as a work thing. That shit irks me, because it creates two distinctly different classes of airline traveler- those with the money to pay for extra-special attention and the hoi polloi. I also got Global Entry, which makes it all the more obvious the divide between haves and have-nots. I could breeze past all the waiting lines and punch a few buttons while the average jerks had to spend an hour in line for the same thing. The only difference between me and them was that extra cash to blow on the experience. At first, precheck was a benefit-nobody paid for it and nobody used it and the lines were short. In the last 1-2 years, it has become much more popular and the lines are longer than the regular grope-point. I didn’t want to pay for another trusted traveler-type program and accepted the minor delay.
Clear, when it came in, irked me even more because they created an entirely new program to do the same thing which apparently cost even more than the TSA one. I don’t know why it was necessary or permitted, aside from creating a new level of special customer. They’re really snotty about it, too, rubbing the whole Clear Customers Are Special in the other passengers’ faces with the pretentious little show of letting the Clear customers cut ahead of everyone else.
I object to this nonsense for 2 reasons. 1st- I don’t like the idea that somehow security is tiered for people with money over people without money. We’re all going to the same plane, flying together, and going to the same destination. It’s not like the special people will be somehow insulated from the normal people. If someone manages to sneak a bomb into the airport, the 1st Class section will be just as fucked as the Commercial one.
What purpose is served by having 2 tiers of security? To me, it seems like the blatant lesson is people with money are more reliable than people without money. And that’s hilarious, because I seem to remember Al Qaeda was founded by a billionaire. Terrorist groups tend to have a lot of money. Anyone remember when a millionaire shot up las vegas a few days ago? What about that timeJohn DuPont heir shot an olympic affalete at his home? Or the time antivirus maven, John McAfee, was suspected of murdering his neighbor, was raided, and accused of running a meth lab and having an illegal arsenal in his Belize home? 2nd- I don’t think a govt-regulated service, like airline security, should be set up to enforce a 2+ tier system of preferential treatment for some over others. I don’t think that’s good for our society and I think it creates needless division. It’s one thing to pay for the 1st class ticket, but the security check should be equal across the board. And, as I pointed out in 1, if the invasive security is necessary for the Little People, it should be required for the pre-checked people.
Speaking as someone with a whole lot of professional security experience, airline security is a joke. I know the metal detector portals and how sensitive they can be tuned, so knowing I’ve walked through with lighters, cigar cutters, and knives on my person on international flights doesn’t make me feel like they’re a crack team of experts on a good day. Based on what I see when I travel, most of the people working security are the lowest IQ mouthbreathers you ever saw. Only a few seem competent. And it’s surprising how many ragheads are working in security. That just makes me shiver. The folks with the longest track record of causing terror are the ones “guarding” the sheep.
So if I buy a shitty new car, what about that makes me seem “secure” and trustable? Seems to me in this day of Low/No Credit carloans, any dick can get one of their shitty cars and be “Cleared” for departure. Think terrorists can’t afford cars? Also, if I really wanted to use Clear, wouldn’t it be a bit of a better deal to just pay for THAT service? I never bought a car based on its additional side benefits-just the ones that mattered to me, like mileage, size/seating, cargo space, etc. So Fuck Lincoln and Clear.
Yet another lame Eric Peters non-story.
GM has been in cahoots with the police state since the 1990s with the Hughes Satellite/Onstar garbage.