A new insult from TSA gropers. Lew Rockwell duly reports: "Hey, Serfs!"
The other day we (wife, children) were going through (false) security at the airport. (...)
We heard a "freeze, freeze" or something like this coming from the output side of (false) security (where my wife was), followed by further barking of commands. From where I was, I couldn't see much.
It turns out they were doing a new drill. They want all passengers to freeze on command. My wife told me later that she didn't follow this order fast enough, so the subsequent barks I heard were directed at her.
She took it up with one of the "employees" who was completely useless. Then a supervisor. My wife told her she isn't accustomed to being ordered around this way and wonders why our government feels it is appropriate. Then came the blank stare in reply.
Now, back to the subject of the thread: I am a former citizen of a communist, supposedly "totalitarian" country. I don't remember anything like this. It is hard to say how much we, Poles, are individualistic in the absolute terms, but one thing is certain:
compared with the present day America, we, in PRL, were a nation of libertarians, living in a society that wasn't trampling too much on our inherent, individual rights. I repeat: compared with the practices in the present-day United States.