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20 years ago airports & airliners were scenes of Orwellian mind-control (GEORGE CARLIN). And those were the good old days! After 9/11, the police state--fortunately run by the Keystone Kops--seized our airports (JIMMY TINGLE, MICHAEL PARENTI). As we lead up to the preposterous Underwear Bomber scam (I, JIM HIGHTOWER & JON STEWART), we hear from student NICHOLAS GEORGE, busted for trying to carry "learn Arabic" flash cards onto a plane. It is to laugh--and the show does (between screams).
Michael Parenti from his public lecture of November 4, 2009, at the University of Hartford, recorded by *moi* (http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37891). www.michaelparenti.org
Jon Stewart audio from a video at The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/jon-stewart-takes-on-unde_n_411495.html).
Nicholas George audio from a video produced by ACLU ("Flying With a Foreign Language": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgegDIUocw.)
News report--"Airport Absurdity"--from Russia Today, ca. February 10, 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoiDFA2Mc7Y).
Jim Hightower essay--condensed by me for radio--from Common Dreams, January 6, 2010 (http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/06-2).
Jimmy Tingle airport-security sketch from his 2009 album,Jimmy Tingle for President. www.jimmytingle.com
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Incidental music: Frank Sinatra, "Come Fly With Me"; Steely Dan, "The Royal Scam."
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