States, by their very nature, are perpetually at war — not always against foreign foes, of course, but always against their own subjects. Robert Higgs
In the normal course of State affairs, officials and agents of the democratic State have to disguise their nefarious motives in various cloaks to deceive the masses. They dress up their plans with expressions such as "national security" or "law and order" or "the public good", etc. Such language disarms the masses, hereafter referred to as "subjects", who have bought into the legitimacy of the democratic State and persuades them that the officials and agents of the State, hereafter referred to as "masters", actually do care about them.
However, there are times when the subjects begin to resist the actions of their masters and even begin questioning their masters motives. The masters then react with their usual propaganda in an attempt to disabuse the suspicious subjects. They tell their subjects that they have their subjects' best interest in mind; that they are doing what they believe is necessary to protect them; that they must give up some of their rights in order for their masters to protect them; and that the subjects who continue to resist are endangering everyone.
But everyone so often, the masters' efforts at reinforcing the political ideology that permits them to rule is not as effective as they hoped. At this point the masters are faced with a dilemma. They can lower their time preference and alter their plans or wait until a more propitious moment to accomplish their goals. Or they can respond with brute force and hope that the fear they create among their subjects will stunt their resistance.
Regarding their subjects' resistance to the TSA, it appears that our masters have chosen the latter option. The TSA has decided that once you enter the security screening area of an airport, they own you. If you choose not to submit to either being groped or scanned and then choose to leave the airport, you can be detained indefinitely as a suspected terrorist, fined $11,000, and turned over to local police.
It is important to our masters that we not resist, but when we do resist, we must resist only as our masters have approved. Our masters do not approve of us canceling our plans spontaneously in order to avoid being humiliated at the hands of the TSA. Such resistance boldly tells our masters that they do not own us; our masters cannot stand this. They cannot brook such open rejection of their control. And when we resist in this way, they feel compelled to remind us who is really in charge.
The TSA is finally revealing to its subjects its true nature, and in doing so, it reveals the true nature of the State. Its agents have run out of patience in cloaking their motives. The TSA is now telling the American people what the State itself has always thought of its subjects, "We have grown weary of your disobedience. You belong to us. We own you. You will submit to all the robbery and humiliation we have planned for you. And if you resist, we will make an example of you to frighten your fellow subjects into submission." This is the nature of the TSA. This is the nature of the State itself. And this is why both must be abolished.
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