<p><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″><strong>We shelled out $19 million for this palace, dubbed the "Freedom Center" by Our Orwellian Masters</strong></font></p><p><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″>In their war against liberty, no propaganda is too ham-fisted for Our Rulers. Witness </font><a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902627.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2008061902710″><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″>this gem</font></a><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″> from Sunday’s <i>Washington Post Magazine. </i>It describes the "the Watch Floor… at the Transportation Security Operations Center…" in Herndon, Virginia, a clearinghouse for rumors, hearsay, and gossip: "Data from more than 450 federalized airports and 19,000 general aviation airfields feed into the Watch Floor." Basically, if a screener doesn’t like the way you look, talk, or pack your suitcase, someone on the Watch Floor hears about it. Colonial Americans silenced tattlers by tying them to a stool and dunking them in water; now we give them free run of the airport and </font><a href=”http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2008/06/20/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-transportation-security-officer.aspx”><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″>"$24,432 to $42,135 annually plus additional locality pay</font></a><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″>" to rat out their betters. </font></p><p><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″>Once the "data" wends its way from concourses and planes to the Watch Floor, more snitches try to determine whether your five ounces of cologne and my six ounces of shampoo add up to some dire plot. Yep, men old enough to know better waste their days and our taxes on this lunacy. Yet the <i>Washington Post Magazine</i> portrays them as competent, good-hearted, heroic patriots who’ve dedicated themselves to "prevent[ing another 9/11." If you suspect that so thorough a whitewash requires operatic overwriting and almost as many words as <i>War and Peace</i>, you’re right. But fear not, dear reader: I waded through the sludge so you don’t have to.</font></p><p><a href=”http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers87.html" target=”_blank”><font face=”verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif” size=”2″>Continue…</font></a></p>