Alright, y'all, welcome back to the show, it's Anti-War Radio.
I'm Scott Horton, and like I say, I've said before on the show, I think, I keep the Lew Rockwell blogs, plural, open all day, lewrockwell.com/blog and his political theater blog as well, the latter mostly because I'm a Ron Paul junkie.
But at lewrockwell.com today, when something that, despite the fact that it's not surprising still is terribly shocking, if you ask me, although I have this disorder where I can't seem to get desensitized to the American police state, my next guest doesn't seem to be able to either.
It's Becky Akers, and the blog entry here is titled Deja Vu for the 10th time this year.
Welcome back to the show, Becky, how are you doing?
I'm fine, thanks for having me, Scott, it's great to be with you.
Okay, now, Deja Vu about what could be so horrible?
Well, there's this disturbing little fact that TSA screeners keep turning up as pedophiles, and I don't mean just because they're fueling little kids up on the job, I mean they go home and they take their enthusiasm for their livelihood with them, they kidnap kids, they fill up little kids outside an airport where it suddenly becomes a crime, they look at pictures of naked little kids, again, outside the airport where, again, it somehow becomes a crime.
On the one hand, you have to feel a tad sympathetic for these folks, I mean, they're confused, they're told at work this is their patriotic duty, go and grope other citizens and make sure they're not members of Al-Qaeda, but when you get home, no more touching.
So, I can understand, you know, we've got these dedicated public servants, they're all gung-ho to perform that patriotic duty, and then suddenly, wham, the hard arm of the law comes down on them, so...
Oh, Becky, you've grown so cynical.
Me?
Oh, come now!
How about the poor slob that goes and volunteers as a pedophile because he's patriotic?
I think that one's pretty cynical.
Poor guy's being exploited by the government.
Indeed he is, preying on his weakness.
Alright, well, now, so these are some very terrible assertions that you make here.
Back them up.
Tell me some stories about some TSA pedophiles arrested this year.
Well, actually, if we broaden it, we get even more depressing statistics.
It's not just that these perverts are into pedophilias, there are also a number of TSA agents who have been arrested for running drugs.
In some cases, they're actually doing it themselves.
In other cases, they are being paid by the dealers to let the dealer pass through the check point without repercussions.
Now, of course, there is nothing wrong with wanting to sell a product or wanting to buy a product.
It's your own decision if you want to poison your body with heroin or whatever, but it's a tad hypocritical for the TSA to arrest passengers at checkpoints who are caught with some pot while their own agents are allowing other passengers around checkpoints who are carrying pot for a profit.
We can expand this to murder.
A TSA agent currently has admitted twice that he stabbed his fellow TSA goon to death.
The two of them were lovers.
They were conducting an adulterous affair and he apparently became angry with something she did or said and knifed her repeatedly in her apartment.
But he didn't bring it on the plane though, at least, right?
He didn't do it at the airport.
I wonder if it was a knife that he got from somebody who had to get on a plane and had to give up his favorite pocket knife like I did.
Excellent point.
Excellent point.
Could have been.
In fact, when we disarm passengers, we are arming the sociopaths that work for the TSA because they just help themselves.
Although, of course, officially they don't do that.
But I read plenty of stories of different agents who are caught taking stuff home from the airport.
And, again, you can hardly blame them because all of that stuff that we, quote, contribute, that we voluntarily give up at the checkpoint, TSA takes all of that and sells it.
Various states, Pennsylvania is one of the leading states to do this.
Various states will post caches of this stuff on the web and sell it.
So you should realize that when you are deprived of your possessions at the checkpoint, they are enriching a state somewhere.
All right.
Now, so if you're just tuning in, we're talking with Becky Akers.
She writes at LewRockwell.com and she's got one at the top of the blog today, at least it is right now, Deja Vu for the 10th time this year.
And we're talking about these TSA employees who all day get paid to molest people's children and look at naked pictures of them and commit other crimes, assault them and steal their things and that kind of thing.
But apparently some of them are getting in trouble for doing this off the clock.
I'm surprised that the sovereign immunity doesn't just kick right over, that any of these people are being prosecuted.
Although, I guess, you know, sex crimes against children is really bad on the local news for the local government's agreement with the TSA, that kind of thing.
But I was hoping in the last couple of minutes of the segment, you could actually go over a couple of these stories from this year for people who aren't familiar.
It's one thing to say 10 times this year, a TSA agent has been busted for engaging in pedophilia while off the clock.
It's something else to give people names and dates and places.
And, you know, maybe they went through that same airport.
Maybe they put their daughter through the scanner at that same airport.
That's very possible.
And, you know, Scott, that's also something that really astonishes me is the easy acceptance that parents have had for all this.
I don't mean that parents aren't outraged by it, but I am astonished at how many parents will take their child to an airport knowing fully well what's going to happen.
It's like, man, you know what?
You need to keep your kid at home.
I don't care if you don't get to go to Disney World that year.
You keep the child at home.
You don't voluntarily take him through a checkpoint when you know for a fact government goons are going to be feeling him up.
But sure, let's go through the list.
There was the current one that I'm referencing in the blog is a guy at Orlando International Airport in Florida.
He has been caught with child pornography on his computer for the past few years, quote.
He said he downloaded the images, quote, out of curiosity.
I guess he never heard that curiosity kills cats.
There was a Maryland agent charged with child pornography.
He was arrested and I'm not sure exactly when this was.
I'm looking for a date for you on the report.
But he was arrested and suspended from his job following his arrest.
He was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.
And this was just a week or two ago.
There is a TSA agent who is charged with statutory rape.
And he was arrested.
Again, let me get the story up so I can give you the date.
September 20th.
This was in Rutherford County near Nashville.
So we have all across the country, in fact, no matter what airport you fly out of, you are into, you are probably going to encounter some of these perverts.
There was a Spring Creek TSA screener who was charged with lewdness and child molestation in July.
This is in the Elko County Sheriff's Office is bringing these charges.
I'm not sure where Elko County is right now.
One moment, I'll get the story up and perhaps I can tell you then.
The blog entry at LewRockwell.com today has a link to this website.
The list, it's at flyertalk.com.
And if you follow that link, this guy has the list with the stories and the links to all the local papers proving it or at least showing the accusations.
When we get back, I want to ask Becky about alternatives.
Just because a security company is private doesn't mean a child molester can't get a job there, right?
So we'll talk about that when we get back from this break.
It's Becky Akers on Antiwar Radio.
Alright, y'all, welcome back to the show.
It's Antiwar Radio.
I'm Scott Horton.
I'm talking with Becky Akers from LewRockwell.com about the child molesters at your local airport in charge of making sure your little girl doesn't have a bomb in her diaper.
Yeah, and Scott, I should apologize to you for not being able to rattle through that list off the top of my head.
Oh, hell, it's alright.
I don't know if you're in the same room as your computer or not.
I am, but here's my problem.
I rarely write about the pedophilia among the TSA because, believe it or not, I actually have a stomach and eventually I just get so nauseated I can't take it anymore.
Yeah, that's why I don't read the Weekly Standard anymore.
See, we're on the same wavelength here.
Yeah, I just can't deal.
I don't have the heart.
A lot of the stuff the TSA does, it's like I read it, I file it away, I forget about it, I can't even write about it because I'm so upset.
Like the whole thing with the woman this last week and her personal aid.
I just don't even want to go there.
It's like, lady, if you use that thing, I don't want to know.
It's none of my business.
I'm sorry the TSA made such an embarrassment for you, but then for you to go and broadcast it.
It's like, man, I don't even want to go there.
If I didn't write about it, I know an awful lot about it.
I'd miss that one.
I just, oh my goodness.
Well, it's all over.
Her name is Jill Falopovic and she's all over the internet with it.
She's an attorney.
She got through a screening and was on her way to Ireland when she opened up her suitcase in her hotel room.
There was a note from the TSA that they rifled her luggage.
And, oh, by the way, they found this and somebody had handwritten on the official TSA notice, get your freak on, girl.
So she has put the ad on Twitter.
It was all over the internet inside of a few hours.
Huge scandal.
TSA claims they have since found out who did it and have fired the agent or at least are in the process of firing him.
Since the TSA lies every time, about everything, I don't trust them and I think that's probably just more spin out there.
But at any rate, I'm just saying, I have my limits.
There's only so much filth that I can put up with in a day.
Which is, I guess, what makes you a libertarian because apparently, you know, everybody else has an unlimited capacity to take this stuff.
I mean, I remember back in 2002, I had a job delivering flowers and I was always listening to 550 AM.out of San Antonio and they would always do a really good job of covering the TSA and they would interview experts about it and open up the phone lines to people who had had horrible experiences and there were people who were facing real prison time for saying a cross word to a TSA agent or not exactly standing right on the painted line on the ground or whatever the hell, ridiculous things and it's not like well, at first they were doing a good job and it's deteriorated or whatever and this whole thing has been an absolute disaster the nationalization of airport security and on it goes, that's it.
Yeah, okay, so you do have 10 cases of pedophiles working at the pat down station at the airport this year but anyway, we'll just keep going.
Maybe we need more TSA agents.
Maybe we need to take people right out of the prisons and that's one area, Scott, where I actually am greatly encouraged because the reaction you just described is what was common up until about 2009 and then it started shifting a little bit then with the advent of the TSA's wholesale groping of everyone last November that was it, that was the tipping point and now you rarely find the kind of reaction you just described whereas when I first started covering the TSA, that's all I ever saw.
I was the lone person posting comments on websites saying abolish the TSA and everybody else was just sitting there saying give it more power and money it's a great organization they're out there protecting us I love the TSA I love seeing their happy smiles as I go through the checkpoints they're such fine patriots completely the opposite now now everybody is saying what they did to my child when I took my kid through the other day it's just wonderful it's very heartening to anyone who loves freedom to see how people are waking up and realizing these thugs are out there to subjugate us not protect us.
Well, you know, the problem is you've got pretty much one airport per city there's no competition it's a federal law that creates this thing and the comment section is getting better and better but you go to a local airport and there's a line of 5000 people staring at their socks shuffling through like kindergarteners or like prisoners on their way to lunch I get emails frequently from readers who are very discouraged at this aspect and I tell them remember that you're dealing with a self-selected audience and by that I mean we're taking ourselves out of the equation now I understand some of us still have to travel you mentioned traveling on business you've got to travel for your job but other than that it's not like you're going to the airport on a weekend and hopping off to LA it's like man if I don't absolutely have to fly I will stay home and I'm in a fortunate position to say I will not entrust myself to the aviation gulag until that agency has been abolished because I know too much about the passengers it has killed and how many hundreds of passengers are in prison just as you said for doing nothing more than looking cross-eyed at an agent so I won't fly so that means we're in airports with passengers lining up saying oh yeah we need anything that keeps me safe they can grope everywhere they want to grope they can have my child and sacrifice her at dawn as long as it keeps them safe that's all I care about understand what you're dealing with you're dealing with the people that don't object to this lunacy you're dealing by and large with sheeple who have been indoctrinated all their lives first at the public school and then by the corporate media they think government protects us they think government is a good thing it's our best friend it purifies our water it cleans our air we'd all be dead without it so that's what you're dealing with the folks that object strenuously are staying on the ground yeah well but then they just get their airline bailout like always it doesn't really matter or they'll just increase the amount of planes the Pentagon's buying from them to make up the difference in what they would of this year or whatever but now let me ask you this what if Ron Paul was the president and like it says in his budget the TSA ceased to exist you know within the first year there Ron Paul often says hey look at armored cars you know they got private security and they're effective as can be because they're protecting money well it shouldn't be any different for the airplanes why not do it like that but when it comes to say for example child molesters you know working at private companies that they could get jobs working for private security that they would want to for the same reason they want to work for the TSA and that there would still be some minimal amount of pat down if not x-ray scans or whatever because people really don't want their plane to blow up on their way to where they're going well here's what would happen if we got rid of the TSA first of all let's back up just a bit and let me just emphasize that it has been for decades yes it's private but that's in name only virtually everything airlines do virtually every dollar airlines have is either subsidized it comes somehow from government and virtually everything they do is mandated by regulation whether from the FAA the TSA some sort of pilot's union that's codified in law that what it says has to go etc.so we need to it has not been a free industry for decades almost since it's beginning because it had the misfortune to be born during the progressive era and so there was really very little pushback from consumers as the government started controlling in fact what may really surprise you is that a lot of the pioneers in aviation actually begged the government to come in and control it because they thought that given the Americans that attract customers to this new industry have the feds in charge of it and people will assume it's safe well sure people have seen the aviator they remember Alan Alda as the corrupt senator there making sure that it's a crime for anyone but Pan Am to fly to Europe yes that's been going on for decades as I said airports are almost any large commercial airport is always owned by the private security screen or with my kids security you know the pat-down or anything else more than the state well the free market will give us a wide range security you may have airline A that does absolutely nothing says bring your gun on board that a hijacker gets on you're going to be the one that deals with them so arm yourself to the teeth passengers at the other opposite end but in a free market we would all choose what level of security makes us happy as far as pedophiles getting jobs with these private agencies no TSA has virtually no hiring filter to take these creeps out of the population private agency couldn't get away with that his revenues depend on pleasing customers and you don't please customers by sealing up maybe a TSA agent who's a child molester gets busted off the clock and has to do some time but even if nobody could sue him for what they did to their kid at the airport and hold anyone accountable and the guy that hired this pedophile there's nothing going to happen to him he's not going to be personally completely insulated from feedback from consumers and users when you mentioned skipping Disneyland this year you can't even drive there if you live in Tennessee without getting pulled over by these guys and searched now they're setting up checkpoints on the highways now the TSA a nice thing to see about that is there's been so much outcry the president actually is on record telling TSA not to come around his stations anymore so same thing happened with this checkpoint in Tennessee there has been such a national outcry I think the TSA got scared up it doesn't mean they won't do it again they conduct something like 5,000 of these viper raids last year but the outcry this raid in Tennessee because as I say this has been going on for a long time they had a far larger operation from the viper team in Ohio West Virginia and Virginia just a couple months ago and there was virtually squab about that it seems to me like well I got this theory anyway I don't know I mean people beat their kids all day every day Barack Obama tears their little lives apart with shrapnel on a daily basis I guess just for kicks or whatever nobody really cares about them but in this particular case this one judge whipping his daughter has brought such hate out of people all these years but it seems like maybe there's a psychological thing underlying all this which is this guy he's a judge he's in a position of authority and people are just so fed up with cops and they're so fed up with the lack of accountability of policing agencies from A to Z all over the place they seem to think everybody in policing has to be held accountable in this country at some point you know now that police brutalities for white people too people are really starting to get pissed off and you know there is a silver lining to the TSA cloud is that for so long cops could pick almost impunity on anybody whose skin didn't match we all need to recognize cops are the enemy they're not just the enemy of the black guy they're not just the enemy of Miguel who came over the border without asking a bureaucrat's permission to persecute they are our enemy too they will pick on us as well there's a quote about how when we allow the government to prey on society's least like members it's only a matter of the government to persecute a black man or a hispanic immigrant is strong enough to persecute us too the government that is strong enough to torture overseas combatants people who are defending their countries who are considered patriots by their countrymen when our government is strong enough to torture those freedom fighters for their country it is strong enough to torture us too we need to understand that government doesn't operate in a vacuum it intimidates everybody all the time it's driving forces to expand its power to get more and more power over us and TSA is nothing but a naked power play to see how far government can go can it rape citizens with impunity pretty much can it sexually molest little children while their parents watch and take videos yeah yeah it's been proven over and over again parents will simply see a pedophile molest their child what is wrong with us is this not the very definition of tyranny this is such brutal dictatorship Stalin Mao Hitler they could only dream of something like this we are standing by watching this while the worst government in all of history does this to our children what is wrong with us this is slavery this is full blown police state totalitarianism they can just rise up and say that's enough no more well sorry just gotta mention it comes up every time but there's one politician that people may have heard of who actually wants to abolish this thing that's it no other politician on the national level would ever do such thing and this guy is actually running for the presidency but it is what it is I really appreciate it everybody that's Becky Aker she writes for luerockwell.com and check her out today at luerockwell.com/blog deja vu for the 10th time this year yet another of the TSA's pedophiles has been arrested
