On July 13, I went into the Tucson Federal Credit
Union main location in Tucson, Arizona
where I have been a member for thirty-four years.
While standing at a counter filling out paperwork,
I was approached by an employee with a cardboard
poster, which she displayed to me, with a quiet
verbal request to remove my sunglasses.
The poster had two generic FBIish faces side by
side. One face wore glasses, the other a cap.
They both had superimposed on them the universal
prohibition indicator of a red circle bisected by an angled red line.
I complied with her request and did not question
her because it happened so quickly and because she seemed to want
to make it a very brief low key interaction.
When I left, I found myself wondering from where this new stripping of
individuals' rights in the name of getting clearer
images of bank robbers had come. I Googled "cap
sunglasses bank"
and learned that this is happening all over the
place.
Why aren't people outraged at this stupid assed
violation of their civil rights?
Because they buy into this BS about being safer.
The government can't make you safer in a free
country without taking away your freedom.
What is the matter with the people of this country
that they can't see that this endless infringement on their basic rights
keeps being shoved down their throats in the
name of making us safer when it is nothing but a steamrolling mindset
that seeks to guarantee our safety by taking
away all our freedoms and rights.
You better believe that this horsecaca is going to very soon be in every 7/11 and McDonalds in the country.
The poster just showed a guy with a cap for a
head covering. I wonder if this means big hairy guys in biker helmets
will be able to sue for damages if they are asked
to remove the helmet unless, they add a picture of a guy in a helmet, too.
Also, what about Abdoul and his turban?
Or Sister Mary Holy Water? Or a white cane guy?
We definitely neeed a huge committee to study
this kind of superimportant stuff and figure out all them pesky details.
Thank God these folks are making us so much safer.
I for one am a lot more relaxed and feel much
better about bank safety since they've apparently gone ahead
and sneaked this BS in nationally. I never robbed
no banks myself, but if I was a righteous bank robber, well shucks,
I might not honor the request to remove my cap
and sunglasses anyway. I'd just risk the additional fine if caught.
God I feel safer and freer in this country every day!
Tony McGrath
tonymcgrath@cox.net