You might think the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had proposed digitally examining passengers’ cavities during its gate-rape at airports, given the airlines’ outrage. Instead, as of April 25, the agency will permit supposedly free passengers to carry pocket-knives and athletic paraphernalia like golf clubs onboard planes.

Written by Colin and Emily Gunn. Studio: Gunn Productions. Running time: 54 minutes.

I loathe feminism as much as I love Colin Gunn’s documentaries. So when I learned that he and his wife, Emily, had co-written a movie exposing feminism in all its satanic gore, I joyously tore into it.

Today, we interview American Daily Herald contributor Becky Akers about her new novel, Halestorm. Set during the American Revolutionary War, it tells the dramatic story of the spy — and anarchist! — Nathan Hale.

Ironic, isn’t it, that passengers who hope to escape the TSA’s groping frequently call for “profiling,” and then, when the airlines comply, all PR-heck breaks loose.

I’ve been waiting all this week for someone, anyone, to demand grant-control. Didn’t James Holmes’ carnage in Colorado prove our overwhelming need for same? Consider: “doctoral students receive free [sic for ‘paid for by others’] tuition, and most get federally sponsored 12-month grants of $26,000, about $500 a week. Holmes, who was not employed, bought an assault rifle, shotgun, two semi-automatic handguns and 6,000 rounds of ammunition…”

“Should [Rep.] Peter King [R-NY] hold House hearings on Christian radicalisation?” asks a poll in the UK’s Guardian. After all, he’s “chair[ing]” a series of “congressional homeland security hearing[s] on Muslim radicalization…”

Is a rose still a rose if it calls itself a petunia?
 
Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole is a Nigerian immigrant also known as Jerry Thomas. His alias has inadvertently highlighted absurdities in several of the charades America’s tyrants foist on taxpayers. Naturally, that has Our Rulers and their propagandists in the corporate media damning Mr. Oyewole as a dire threat to the ole Homeland.

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face! It seems Americans will happily live in a police state so long as “illegal” immigrants do too — or rather, so long as illegals spend only a day or two in it before cops ship them back where they belong. 

It seems nothing is too evil for immigrants to the United States. In addition to stealing our jobs and sucking down welfare, these invading hordes also destroy American culture.

“Throw the bums out!” That’s the perennially popular prescription for curing what ails us at the ballot box. Problem is, it’ll never work. We could not only throw out every congressman, senator, governor and president, we could abolish their offices, too, so successors even more mercenary, mendacious and meddlesome can’t harm us.

States and localities across the country are wielding the Tenth Amendment against the heinous NDAA of 2012, promising to nullify its anti-constitutional threat of “indefinitely detaining” us. For example, “commissioners” in Kansas’ Cherokee County “may vote on a resolution condemning sections of the NDAA as a violation of several provisions in the U.S. Constitution … The proposed resolution notes that the military policing of citizens ‘is repugnant to a free society.’”
 
Actually, policing is repugnant to a free society. Exactly who carries out such tyranny, whether “police forces” or an army, is largely a matter of semantics. But in dumbed-down America, propaganda and a deft change in terminology often fool the sheeple.
 
Police are nothing less than soldiers a country’s rulers turn loose on its taxpayers. Such troops have seldom been armed as heavily as those sent against external enemies, but America’s increasingly “militarized” cops flout that rule of thumb. And that brings us full circle, because prior to the nineteenth century, regular armies “policed” cities.
 
One fabled incident from America’s colonial history illustrates this. In 1770, the British Army’s policing of a town in Massachusetts culminated in the Boston Massacre.

The TSA has hit the headlines again — this time for “lax security” at Newark’s airport. A federal audit found screeners snoozing on the job when they weren’t stealing from passengers or watching luggage whiz past rather than searching it for explosives.

Same old, same old: the TSA’s troubles at Newark also hogged headlines last April. Nothing’s changed since then, despite a new “Federal Security Director” at the airport and innumerable promises from politicians.

Nor is Newark alone. Across the Hudson and East Rivers, New York's JFK International Airport recently made a name for brutalizing elderly women: Lenore Zimmerman, 85, accused the TSA of strip-searching her there. The agency denied this, as usual — but two more grandmothers stepped forward with similar stories.

It’s no better elsewhere. In Hawaii, the TSA recently fired 28 malingerers at Honolulu International for failing to search baggage. Cops nationwide continue arresting the agency’s personnel for theft, whether of a Montblanc pen in Florida or iPads — multiple — in Dallas. And perhaps most disgustingly of all, screeners across the country face charges of pedophilia. Turns out creeps who molest little kids at the airport often do so at home, too.

Two more of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) employees are heading to jail, this time for six months. A judge imposed the sentences last week after the pair pleaded guilty to stealing $40,000 from a checked bag they “inspected” at New York’s JFK International. (Yeah, I know: what dimwit checks a bag with $40,000 cash unless he's smoking his own weed? Tragically, far too many Americans applaud the TSA’s intercepting drugs Our Rulers don’t like.)

One thief’s lawyer says his client “understands he made a mistake.” Which reminds me of a friend’s response when his wife left him for another man. Things didn’t work out, so she tearfully asked her husband to take her back. “I made a mistake,” she sobbed.

To which he replied, “A mistake is burning dinner.”

New York State’s execrable governor, Andrew Cuomo, worried in his recent State of the State Address that not only do too few New Yorkers depend on their government for daily sustenance but that fingerprinting recipients of food stamps insults them. “We must increase participation in the food stamp program,” he decreed, “remove barriers to participation, and eliminate the stigma associated with this program. And we must stop fingerprinting for food.”

His words imply that “stigmatizing” beggars is widespread. But only New York City still requires mendicants who leech off their neighbors to submit to fingerprinting: the practice disappeared from the rest of the state thanks to an equally execrable governor, Eliot Spitzer. (You no doubt recognize his name no matter where you live: his patronizing prostitutes made national headlines and tossed him from office though, alas, not into prison.)

Sometimes there are no good guys.

Yet many Christians would consider Natalie Johnson one. She’s the employee who prohibited a boy pretending he’s a girl from using the women’s dressing-rooms at Macy’s. The 27-year-old blamed her convictions as the reason for her actions: “Johnson … claim[ed] her religious beliefs prevent her from recognizing transgender people. ‘There are no transgenders in the world. A guy can dress up as a woman all he wants, that's still not going to make you a woman,’ said Johnson.”

Hard to argue with such common sense. So of course the hopelessly confused “transgender community” and Macy’s are both doing so. Vociferously. When Ms. Johnson “’had to just straight forward tell [the patron], ‘You're a man,’ … of course that really got him steamed.'” Bingo: “a manager called Johnson in the next day to explain that Macy's policy permits individuals to go into the changing room of whatever gender they identify with.” When she refused to comply with this lunacy, the store fired her.