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So the sort of reason for this video, I first thought of making this video after I saw a recent Tweet on a gal named Savanah Hernandez, and I don't know her otherwise, so whatever, but this is just one of these Tweets. More and more, frankly X, whatever you want to call it, is one of the better sources of news at this point, especially in light of the fact we are finding that a lot of the so-called mainstream outlets or whatever you want to call it, are a lot less than forthright sometimes. So even though I don't otherwise know this gal, her take on this TSA situation, I feel like it was worth noting. 

Look, Transportation Safety Authority or whatever they call themselves, at the end of the day they are part of immigration matters if you're going into the United States at least, so you're going to have interaction with them. That said, quoting directly from her Tweet: "After I turned down facial recognition, the TSA agents couldn't "verify" my REAL ID (that I waited 3 hours at the DMV to get) because his computer was glitching and wouldn't recognize it. It has a photo of my face on it and the - (I'm going to talk a little blue here for a minute) - and THE BIG ASS GOVERNMENT APPROVED STAR ON THE CORNER but that's still not enough. The TSA agent made me remove my glasses to see if the picture matched my face, ran my ID through the scanner 3 times and when I finally asked" - and this is key, this is not just petulance when dealing with some otherwise routine matter. It's not, okay? This is everybody saying we have to have Digital ID because why? She gets to the crux of it here. I don't know whether she realized it or not, but she really did - "when I finally asked why he couldn't just use his eyes and see that my face matched the ID." - good point. I'm really tired of this. There was a time we didn't have photo ID. And I get it. It was a simpler time, and we have all evolved and everything has gotten worse or something, maybe not. It's just the arbitrary edition of all of this ID that Government has just accreted upon us over time and then basically gaslit us through propaganda that it's all normal. People forget, I always bring up that movie, Tea with Mussolini - it had Cher in it - and I bring it up because it showed an era, it was in the interwar period in Italy, between the First World War and the Second World War; it's sort of set in the lead up to the Second World War, obviously it's about Mussolini. But the reason I always sort of go back to this movie is people kind of forget, prior to the Second World War, it was common not to even travel with passports. Passports are a very new thing in the grand scheme of humanity. They are only about a hundred years old; actually a little less in terms of sort of everyone using them. I just got done reading a book called The Master of Rain. It was a sort of historical fiction set in the International Settlement of Shanghai and I did a deep dive reading about the history and stuff around, because I was reading the book, and they talked about how the International Settlement at one point as we were entering the Second World War, became like one of the last sort of “respectable” if you will jurisdictions that you didn't really need travel documents to get in and out of because it wasn't a presumption that you had to have a passport, let alone a picture ID, let alone facial recognition, let alone real ID, that horrible system that's in my opinion it is really gross overreach by the Federal Government into State matters in the United States. But again, all of this is sort of, there are some who would frame it like this woman saying, "hey, why can't you just use your eyes? That's what you are here for. You are the human component. You can't just look at a photo of me, and then look at me and see that I am the same person? And where is this handoff to digitization going? We are all going to be run by algorithms? And if we are not able to like meet a facial recognition test then what? We're not allowed to do anything or go anywhere? What are we? Communist China? It's really ridiculous, the notion that this is what's going on in America and then we have the audacity to lecture anybody else about issues pertaining to human rights and liberties and things, it is pretty nonsensical especially when you get to the rubber hitting the road of "hey, I have got the ID you say I need. Now you want me to do facial recognition? You can't just look at me? What's the point of having that person there anyway? What's their job? To stand in line with a whip and make you do your facial recognition? Seriously. What's the purpose of all of this? Quoting further: "He responded with "why can't you just get your face scanned." Because I am not a slave. Maybe that. I'm sick of that petulant imperious attitude from people who take money from the public purse, talking to private travellers. There is an inherent right to travel for anyone; it's a human right if you will. Natural rights to get into John Locke if you want to go that deep but we don't need to in an American context because guess what, the United States Constitution notes the inherent right to travel. A right that can only be abrogated by due process of law. And guess what? "Why don't you just get your face scanned" ain't due process of law, TSA. Which brings up the reason for the thumbnail. "Lighten up TSA." It's from the movie Stripes with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, great film. Sergeant Hulka. There's a great scene where this guy is acting all crazy, calls himself psycho; his real name is Francis and Hulka just finally just says "hey lighten up Francis"; "lighten up TSA!" On top of it, as I'm going to get into here in a moment, over on Jimmy Dore's channel, Kurt Metzger, and, I'll double check real quick here, Kurt Metzger and Chris Keen are over there talking about how on top of this now, they're talking about how we all need to be Happy Scrappy and smile, and be nice and dress up when you travel. For what? You to deny our due process rights, you deny our basic rights to travel? Quoting further: "I despise that Americans being treated like terrorists is the norm to travel BETWEEN STATES IN OUR OWN COUNTRY." Damn right. There is an inherent right to travel; it is enshrined in the Constitution. There is a Fourth Amendment: persons, papers and effects. Without a warrant, what are you doing TSA? And person, my face is part of my person. Quoting further: "also why is the government forcing Americans to get RealID when it doesn't even work and blue states are handing them out to illegals anyway?" - Another great point. The absurdity of tyrannical bureaucracy I guess is what she is pointing out. "We live in a full-on surveillance state, aided by brain dead TSA agents who can't think without their computers doing it for them." 

Yeah, I'm not going to completely cast aspersions at them, but they are standing by as we're all just being basically nudged in like chattel or something into this system, where you just need to do it. Just do it. That was the same stupid response if you question the masks. Just put on the mask, just put on the damn mask; just put it on! No! How about no? It's not right, it's not legal, it's not based on anything that makes any sense other than we want to just monitor, track, trace you everywhere you go. 

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That said, I'm going to go ahead and throw this on screen, it's a screenshot, it's on Jimmy Dore's channel but it involves, and I'm going to quote from the description on that channel, the title of the video is: Transportation Secretary has the DUMBEST SOLUTION For Air Travel Problems. Quoting directly, from the description: "Guest Host Chris Keene and Americans' comedian Kurt Metzger" who by the way is just a wealth of interesting information from time to time - quoting further: "discuss how cramped seating, rising ticket prices, security hassles, staffing shortages, and outdated infrastructure - not passengers in pajamas - drive stress and unruly behaviour on planes." What they were doing is they are analysing the head of TSA, he was in a video recently or tweeted, "hey why does everybody go to the airport dressed like they're going to bed? Maybe dress up, be cheerful." He actually used, I watched the video and tip of the hat to Jimmy Dore and his whole crew over there, I've been keeping track of Jimmy going all the way back into COVID and he was of the guys. I know I'm not as big a deal as others on YouTube and things and frankly I like my little niche, I'm not trying to be anything other than what I am, but I remember the darkness of COVID, especially on YouTube and Jimmy Dore was one of the lights that was still on. You know CCR, as long as I can see the light, we were making videos out here about this stuff; he was doing his thing. I'm just saying, tip of the hat to Jimmy, tip of the hat to his whole crew, but they are quoting this video where this guy, he actually does say something, and he had a point on something that I truly think America should take the hard way, where he said "hey, let's see civility return to air travel." I did agree with that on the part of the Head of TSA. That was a good point and the sentiment of what he was saying I got. The problem is it's coming from the person who is overseeing all of this Orwellian searching, and monitoring, tracking and tracing and running everybody through like we're cattle going down a slaughterhouse chute or something, it is pretty creepy, so people that are going through it, I'm not going to sit around and begrudge them the fact that they are kind of hacked off and kind of less than civil about, oh I don't know, having their Fourth Amendment rights abrogated because they want to travel by airplane from one state to another, which is perfectly within their inherent liberties and privileges and immunities as an American citizen. I get the point of what the TSA guy was trying to say, but as Kurt and Mr. Keen point out over on Jimmy Dore's channel, yeah, it's pretty hard to really get on board hardcore with that civility argument, when the reason for the lack of civility is the fact that you are hassling everybody, and as I think they pointed out in one of the Twitter posts that was sort of engrained or embedded when I was doing all this research to make this video, somebody also pointed out "hey how many security screening hoops do people who use private planes have to go through?" Good point.

My only point with all of this is look maybe lighten up a little TSA, as old Sergeant Hulka would put it. You're already doing stuff that really most of us are not really all that greatly happy about. There is a level of tolerance, I think most people are willing to put up with things, just get on with their lives, but it doesn't strike the right cord if you will, to hear the same people that are trying to sort of track and trace everything we do, tell us that we need to put a smile on our face while they're doing it.