Gyroscopic Investing

In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws: the NDAA, which lets anyone be arrested forever at any time, and HR 347, the "trespass bill", which gives you a 10-year sentence for protesting anywhere near someone with secret service protection. These criminalizations of being human follow, of course, the mini-uprising of the Occupy movement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... trol/print

I almost had my 15 minutes of fame last year when I returned from an 18 hour flight from Hong Kong and was forced to endure a patdown at O'Hare. As I stood there with my arms extended in full public view, the TSA agent was getting ready to "touch my junk" when I somehow managed to give him the non-verbal warning that if you do that I WILL bust you in the mouth as hard as I can. I consider myself a non-violent person but there is no doubt in my mind that I would have done it too. I know I would have regretted it, to be sure, as I 'm sure I would still be sitting in jail, but I would not have felt guilty about it at all.

I was still giving him that non-verbal communication loud and clear as I walked away and I could see him staring at me out of the corner of his eye. I hope I scared him, at least a little.

I don't know if the "US" is deliberately "using sexual humiliation as a political tool to control the masses" or not but I think they will eventually not like the results if they are. People will put up with a lot of things but there are some things that make a lasting impression and people don't forget.