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You are probably right. However, I do want to point out that none of the comments in this thread about “treatment” would have ever been made if the commenters were present at the time. Now, to some extent this is because I did not describe the conversation with the kind of detail one would need to know that at no point could the employee ever have been offended at what I said. That is not because I did not describe the event well, but rather, because I did not describe the even that way because it was not my intention to do so.

So the comments are interesting and the argument is valid (and I tend to side with Fredric on this) but none of this has anything to do with what happened.

Therefore, this whole discussion also serves as an example of something else.

When fascist violations of our rights, liberties, and freedoms is being inflicted upon us by mindless, under-paid drones “merely following orders,” even minor resistance and ridicule is wholly legitimate. By making the mindless drones hate their jobs, the fascist State must pay better wages or find someone even dumber to take the job — which leads to further stupid acts committed against us which leads to greater exposure of the fascism and its underlying stupidity.

Provisional respect is automatically granted as the defacto mode of behavior in Westernized socities however respect is something that either has to be earned or has to be exhibited as deserved.

People grant provisional respect and when it’s shown that someone is not deserving of respect, respect is retracted. That’s the way the human species operates, hard-wired in to our brains.

So it is with people who prostitute themselves by serving a fascist regime; they have already evidenced themselves as undeserving of any respect for what they do, and pointing out the stupidity of what they’re doing becomes a matter of duty.

My opinions only, and only my opinions, as always.

I shall remove my *trousers* and hand over my _underpants_ whilst looking them straight in the eye.

“Be careful what you wish for…you might get it!”

I’ve avoided flights as much as possible since 9/11/2001. But, I’m flying to Germany with my daughter soon, and I’m dreading the process. She’s studying there for 11 months, so we’re taking maximum luggage and a year’s worth of prescription medicines. I have bipolar disorder, so I’ll have to load up on tranquilizers before arriving at the airport (otherwise, I’ll probably unload streams of verbal abuse at officious and intrusive TSA and customs snoops).

Is your name even actually Laden?

Pretty lame trolling.