They have us tagged...

After watching the video by Naiomi Klien, I'm curious about the codes on airline tickets that tag you as bring on the 'watch list' and subject you to additional harassment at the TSA checkpoints. Evidently the code is SSSS printed on the lower right hand corner of the pass. I'm almost tempted to take a flight just to check my status. It was said in the video that if you are a 'critic' of the security state you are thus branded. Sort of like acing '666' tattooed on your forehead. Either way, just one more way the police state tracks its enemies.  I'd like to be able to confirm if this is fact or the figment of a paranoid mind.

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A Bucket List

 Yes, I'm thinking about what to include...

1. There are some islands off the coast of Prince Edward Island. They are still part of France. They are about as far east as you can go on the North American Continent. I want to visit and take pictures.

2. There is a bridge over the Penobscot River near Bucksport, Maine that has an observation deck on top of one of it's towers, hundreds of feet above the bridge deck. I want to go there.

3. I've done this once in my life already, but still.. I want to watch the sunrise from atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park.

4. I want to cycle along the California Coast from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

5. I want to go to the only corner of the U.S. I haven't visited yet in the Florida Keys.

6. I want to own another sailboat. Nothing makes you feel free like traveling under the power of wind. You become one with the ocean and the winds. Sailing to Catalina would do. Maybe renting a sailboat would work. Anyone for sailing?

7. I want to fly an ultralight aircraft.

8. I want to fish for a whole month, and enjoy eatting the catch..


This is just the first installment. More to follow. Posted on Dreamwidth