Sippy Cup is Back in the News

I do not know how to link to a former diary but I posted one last night about how the sippy cup is a test on the willingness of the American public to be bullied.

In the diary I found out that the mother involved was a secret service agent.  That has yet to be revealed on the MSM I have been watching.  The MSM yesterday constantly replayed the tapes from the airport asking the public to decide is she was harrassed or was harrassing.

Today, she is personally interviewed.  When they told her she would have to give up the sippy cup because of the water in it.  She offered and attempted to drink it.  They refused to allow her to drink it and told her they were going to confiscate the sippy cup.  It was the only one she had and the only the thing the baby had to drink out of  and so she refused.  They followed her with three different employees in order to confiscate her sippy cup.

My question would be is a sippy cup, particularly an empty one, a dangerous weapon?

The point of this diary is how much stupidity are we willing as public in a consitutional democracy willing to continue to swallow.

These authoritarian guards has no ruling about sippy cups I am sure.  Therefore, their behavior is based on judgment.  In my day, that meant common sense which most of our common law is based on.  Would a normal person with a sippy cup be considered dangerous?  Would a normal person seeing a woman vomiting blood on the floor in an emergency room consider that person in extreme distress?  Would a nurse ignoring that fact be considered either malicious or negligent?

I am enraged not only about what our government is doing but that we feel so powerless over it.  I am willing to be arrested over a sippy cup.  I want a judge to hear the ridiculousness of such reasoning.  Then I want the ACLU to sue over false arrest.  I want our public rights restored.  I want it now.  

Now I am willing to risk my reputation, time, and inconvenience to stand up for all our rights.  But when I read this site, there are huge numbers of people who are going to say, I broke the rules therefore I must suffer or it is not worth taking a stand over a sippy cup.

Someone changed the poem about they came for me to they came for my sippy cup.  It is both funny and a horrible nightmare.

Conceptual guerilla is taking about swallowing the stupidity of Yoo's reasoning that the constitution changed with 911.  I am talking about the reason they think they can jam this down our throat is that we are going to give up reasoning that a sippy cup is not a weapon; it is not dangerous.  And I do not have to listen to an idiot telling me it is.

Last night the horror stories of what is going on in our airports was funnier and stupider than I thought possible.

I did a terrible job of the poll last night.  I will try much harder and maybe more people will at least vote.