Ah, Texas. Such an easy target for mockery. So willing to stand up and say its piece when it believes in something. In today’s world, it must be considered an “extremist state full of extremists”. And it stood up against the US Federal government’s invasive and demeaning Transit Security Agency’s “enhanced security” measures.

‘the Texas House of Representatives unanimously passed “Restrain-the-TSA” legislation, which would make invasive pat-downs a crime at Texas airports… The Texas legislation (http://www NULL.hro NULL.house NULL.state NULL.tx NULL.us/pdf/ba82r/hb1937 NULL.pdf#navpanes=0) [PDF] proposes to charge TSA agents with a misdemeanor crime, face a $4,000 fine, and one year in jail for any airport inspection that ”touched the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person, including touching through clothing; or touched the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person.’ Ms. Smith, NetworkWorld.com (http://www NULL.networkworld NULL.com/community/blog/having-private-parts-not-probable-cause-tsa-g), May 22, 2011

Here a state is actually standing up against the United States’ ongoing degradation of personal liberties. Well done, Texas.

More fascinating to me, though, was the above article’s very brief expose on President Obama’s Science and Technology Advisor John P. Holdren (http://www NULL.whitehouse NULL.gov/administration/eop/ostp/about/leadershipstaff/director).

‘Holdren has some “disturbing beliefs about America, capitalism and humanity,” according to the Examiner (http://www NULL.examiner NULL.com/conservative-politics-in-national/science-czar-john-p-holdren-s-disturbing-beliefs-about-america-capitalism-and-humanity).

‘Long before becoming “science czar,” Holdren co-authored “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/John_Holdren#Early_publications).” In this “environmental text book,” according to Stop Austin Scanners (http://stopaustinscanners NULL.org/2011/05/open-letter-calls-out-tsa-lack-of-candor/), Dr. Holdren promoted mass depopulation measures, advocating the “population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food (pp. 787/788).” Additionally, on pages 917, 942/943 (http://zombietime NULL.com/john_holdren/), Holdren wrote that a “transnational ‘Planetary Regime’ should assume control” which could “dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives – using an armed international police force.”

‘As the article points out (http://stopaustinscanners NULL.org/2011/05/open-letter-calls-out-tsa-lack-of-candor/), Science Czar Dr. Holdren is the “ultimate authority on science/technological issues” for the White House. So is this push of “safe” backscatter and full-body scanners at airports, stadiums, mass transit and elsewhere, part of Holdren’s vision from his book for the American way of life to include an armed police force?’ Ms. Smith, NetworkWorld.com (http://www NULL.networkworld NULL.com/community/blog/having-private-parts-not-probable-cause-tsa-g), May 22, 2011

Apparently, Mr Holden has refuted these beliefs (http://zombietime NULL.com/john_holdren/#white_house_statement) before attaining his current role. Still, Holden is (or was) an advocate for “coercive fertility control”, forced sterilization (http://news NULL.bbc NULL.co NULL.uk/2/hi/africa/8128121 NULL.stm), and other crime against humanity (http://untreaty NULL.un NULL.org/cod/icc/statute/99_corr/cstatute NULL.htm) – and who worries about “pronatalist attitudes” in the unenlightened.

“Pronatalist” would, presumably, be his preferred perjorative for “people who like babies”.

How on earth is Holden not considered not considered an insane extremist, while Ron Paul (http://en NULL.wikipedia NULL.org/wiki/Ron_Paul) is considered crazy and extreme for advocating sound currency, an end to American invasions and occupations, holding the federal government to obey its own Constitution?