Come on Texas, fight back, pass the bill.

Then let the feds close the airspace.

Then let Texas secede and reopen the air space.

Here is how it should work.

1. Put the bill on the table.
2. Draw up plans to secede, just in case.
3. Pass the bill.
4. Wait for fallout.
5. If the fallout is negative, implement the plan to secede.
6. Reopen airspace under the name of Republic of Texas.

Yeah, thats how its suposed to work, the democratic way as its reffered to as. but no.our government issuing a threat over politics and paperwork..something def aint right with that. its more like being a dictator and stripping our freedoms aways.

I smell a revolution if that happens. this is total BS. I will vote against everyone currently in office!

Can you imagine the impact of closing the air ports and shutting down air traffic over Texas?

Can we really believe that the government would take such an economically devastating approach to 'influencing' the public policy of a sovereign state of the union?

There is something larger than the inconvenience and humiliation of public searches here.

But we already know that the party controls the politicians and it's unlikely that they would stand a chance surviving politically if they didn't do as they are told by the party. Even if the legislator was steadfastly committed to moving this bill, and the subsequent debate, into the record; it doesn't mean his colleagues' support wouldn't fail for the same reasons they usually do - loyalty to the party before loyalty to the country.

I don't believe that threat was realistic, and I certainly don't believe that they would have done anything other than whine about the new Texas law.

But when the media is used to tell American's that 9 in 10 US citizens are "OK" with "searches without demonstrable cause"... you know they are not going to play fair.... hopefully most Americans are starting to "know better."

I wonder what this century's civil war will be blamed on. Racism, I guess. It's apparently racist to not enjoy federal goons sticking their hands down your pants. Nice.

I cannot see the majority of americans revolting n fighting back. maybe a small pocket of protesters, thats about it. gets nothing done, and like the powers to be realy care..their alughing at you protesters, especially when police in riot gear shoot tear gas, and use thier battons on you/them. they just snuff thier nose at the small insignificance. too many people are on pharmacutical drugs like demeroll, zanax..making you weaker in the short run, run down, tired and way outof balance. hard to revolt if your strung out*

Listen please,
First off I personally see nothing wrong with what the tsa is doing other than federal employees are protecting corporate assets.
Citizens surrender their rights before getting on the planes; it is not their plane that they are riding on, so I'm ok with that.
But it is the individual citizens’ fault for surrendering their rights and freedom for someone else’s or corporate security.
Many do not suffer the pat down, they have their own aircraft.
It is not your safety the tsa fears for, it is the loss of a plane or the insurance monies that are paid out, the bad press that comes with crashes, Etc.
That said the federal government is giving free security to the corporations.
Make the airlines pay for all of the tsa employees and see how quickly budgets get cut.
Remember all of you can say but this is a democratic republic or we have democracy.
Bull, we have an oligarchy.
If you see it any other way than that you are simply delusional and daft.
The power could be put back in our hands if we wished it so.
However this will not happen in a voting booth, you see as long as we have career politicians we will have this problem.
This bill was not killed by federal threat; it was killed by a career politician that just did not want to fall on his own sword.
We need to unify and force our politicians to see things our way via mass protest.
But these politicians do not fear us.
Why you ask?
We are not organized or smart enough.
Sure the tea party had a good go and got some good press time along the way then got co-opted. Where is it now?
First things first, education is paramount.
Remember when they used to say stay in school?
That was so you'd get your basic skills down.
If you cannot organize a sentence how are you supposed to organize a worthy defense?
First we need to become educated.
Second we need to make serious term limits and not the crap they have talked about before.
One term, no pension no insurance; remember it is a “public service” position.
You do it because you love your city, state or country and want to help, not to get rich
It is as simple as that.
With term limits big corp. would have to pay off everyone and many would be bad investments as nobody would be worried about re-election.
This would kill the idea of an oligarchy, as they could not get a firm grasp on our public servants.
I do believe Texas will be the epicenter of the flashpoint as there are more freethinking individuals down there and as in the past Texas was it’s own country.
This holds a lot of weight in people’s minds.
Organization is key, educate, demonstrate, obliterate.
Just my take on rights and how to keep them.

The sad reality is that the federal government will get their way, either way. If we had passed the bill, they would have affected a de facto no fly zone over Texas by not allowing flights to or from Texas. Lets say we fight that measure and open flights back up. You can bet the rent money that there would have been a conveniently timed terrorist attack of some sort to teach us a lesson and get us back in the flock. And yes, I am proposing that our government would actually undertake a false flag attack in order to see it's will done. There is a plenitude of historical documentation to support this notion.