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Interviewer: …there is at least one place in America where a joke or even polite words spoken with heat can get you arrested, and that's at an airport.

Doug Casey: For sure. These 50,000 TSA people take themselves more and more seriously. I mean, you can't even look at them askance, or they'll interrogate you. And you better speak respectfully when you give your answers, or missing your plane will be the least of your worries.

You know, people often wonder where the Nazis found the bedbugs willing to join the Gestapo and the SS, and where the Soviets found the worms who worked for the KGB. Well, they were exactly the same sort who join the TSA. They are largely nothing/nobody people who were doing nothing with their lives – middle-aged people who were recruited out of their nothing/nowhere jobs, to go to work for a government agency, literally going through people's dirty laundry and asking them impertinent questions.

… [and] we mustn't forget the spiffy uniforms. That fetish is part of the psychological profile of these creatures. They love uniforms; they make them feel a part of something bigger than themselves, giving them a sense of self-importance and meaning to their meaningless lives. It's all part of this atmosphere of political correctness.

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