Some points to ponder: in the early twentieth century, the US federal government wanted to ban all alcohol.    In order to accomplish this, they had to pass a constitutional amendment.    A few years later, they decided to repeal prohibition, so a second amendment was required to repeal the first.    The important point here that nobody today seems to realize is that MERE LEGISLATION WAS NOT CONSIDERED SUFFICIENT TO OUTLAW A SUBSTANCE.

At some point, somebody might want to ask the question of where they get the constitutional authority for the current war on drugs. Nowadays, the government says it can justify just about any action on the basis of either its power to tax, or its power to regulate interstate commerce.  In essence, they claim a virtual blank check on power. In my view, I say that such an attitude is prima facie evidence of an intention to rule the people rather than to serve them.

Also, did anyone ever wonder what is the consitutional basis for airport screenings?     You do not have to go through a metal detector (or one of the new naked body scanners) or submit to intrusive searches in order to drive your car on the highway, do you? So why on a domestic airline flight?  Well, the catch here is that the Fourth Amendment only protects you against "unreasonable" searches and seizures.  So if we just say that searching everybody who wants to fly is "reasonable," then the Fourth Amendment doesn't apply.   And we've gotten everyone to feel like this is normal and reasonable by scaring them to death by having the state-controlled media continuously headline fearmongering stories about "terrorism," 24/7, never stopping, ever since 9/11.   

I'm wondering how long it will be before they say they can just stop and search you on the street, or on the highway, for the same reason.   There is no qualitative difference between air travel and car travel on the highways.   A bomb could go off in either place, killing lots of people.   So if it's OK to subject American citizens to degrading, dehumanizing, suspicionless searches at the airports, why not have the same thing everywhere else?  That's the logical next step.  And it's already been happening.  If you search the news, you'll find that the T.S.A. has already been expanding its suspiconless search operations by deploying teams to search passengers at bus stops and other places.   In at least one case that I recall reading a few years ago, they were searching people who were DISEMBARKING from the bus ... AFTER the trip was over.

Here is a video just posted by Alaska Rep. Chris Tuck advising his constituents that they can "opt out" of the naked body scanners and be subjected to a pat-down instead, because "this is still a free country."   Actually, being subjected to a suspicionless pat-down is a Fourth Amendment violation, Rep. Tuck, because it's simply NOT reasonable in a free country to do this.

In a free country, there would be NO government searches or security measures required for people to travel in the manner of their choosing.  Airlines would be free to institute their own security policies as they deemed appropriate, based on business needs and customer demand.   

Government policy makers know that air travel is not inherently more dangerous than other modes of travel, and the true reason for these screenings has nothing to do with protecting your safety.  It is intended to psychologically condition the population to being subjected to arbitrary and intrusive searches and detentions by the government and to perceive this state of affairs as "normal."

I say it is NOT normal and it has ALL got to go. 

 Man Faces Trial for Defying TSA Agents

Related: Slavery Consummated by Physical Rape

Everyone who values their freedom and the freedom of their families ought to watch the following videos -- several times each -- TAKING NOTES and PRACTICING the phrases.   The principles explained in these videos by right apply to all human beings, even if you live outside the USA in a country that does not recognize these rights.   

The men who founded the USA in the late 1700's put their signatures to a document called the Declaration of Independence, which declared that ALL men have certain inalienable rights which derive from God Himself, and that the only legitimate purpose of any government is to secure these rights.   It is now over two hundred years later, but instead of progress leading us to a world where everyone's rights are protected, instead vicious criminals have taken over the major governments of the planet and they are systematically eliminating people's rights once again, even in the countries that used to be called "free."    In principle, however -- and in God's view -- all people still have these rights, even if their vicious criminal leaders do not recognize them.

By educating yourself about what these rights are, helping to bring this information to others, and claiming these God-given rights for yourself (even if only in your heart, if it would be too dangerous to do so publicly right now), you are doing your part to help build a bridge to a world in which these rights may one day be protected for all people regardless of geographic location, ethnicity, or other arbirtary considerations of men. - Jeff Polachek, December 28, 2011

10 Rules For Dealing With The Police

 Busted: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

Key Phrases to Memorize From the Videos:

• "I don't consent to any searches."
• "I want to remain silent until I talk to a lawyer."
• "Are you detaining me, or am I free to leave?"
• "I can't let you in without a warrant."

For more information or to order DVDs, visit FlexYourRights.org

Real-Life Example #1: Steve Anderson
CheckpointUSA.org

The following is a great example of one citizen who knows his rights and refuses to waive them even when badgered at a disgusting suspicionless Nazi checkpoint on an Arizona highway.   Unfortunately, most American people have been so dumbed-down by the state "good citizen" slave training public education system along with TV, Hollywood, junk food and sodas, that they have no idea in the world what their rights are.   As a result, now in 2011 the federal government is planning a MASSIVE EXPANSION of these Fourth Amendment violative checkpoints because they figure since the American people never mention their rights anymore, they obviously don't have any.  My hope in publishing this material on my website is that perhaps enough people will agree about just how important this is, spread the word to everyone they know, and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Here is another video from Steve:

Real-Life Example #2: Top DHS Checkpoint Refusals

If You Don't Know -- and CLAIM -- Your Rights, You Don't Have Any

This is a scam.   If anyone owns the patent rights to genes, it is their original Creator.   The corporations do not derive any patent rights by simply tweaking the existing gene in a laboratory.   The corporations are merely assuming ownership rights because they can; they already own the governments in effect and as a result control the legislative process.

Even if they found a way scientifically to create intelligent life from scratch, the concept of allowing such control or ownership over human life is unconscionable and constitutes a form of slavery.   Anyone who supports such a state of affairs is by definition an enemy of free humanity and ought to be treated as such.