I was dropped off at the airport (ATL) today to catch the train home. As I entered the baggage claim area I couldn’t help but to think about how we are all herded around like cattle. There are rails that prevent you from taken the shorted distance. I just wanted to catch the train home, but instead of a direct path, I had to walk half way down baggage claim, then walk back the direction I cam from.

I am not sure if it would just create chaos, or they are doing it for security reasons. I also had to stand in line to get a ticket for the train, and another line to get though the gate for the train. Following people up the stairs, and then rushing to get on. Then I am carted to the other side of the city by rail. Getting off the train I follow people out the exit to get to my loving wife waiting for me in the car.

I hate the train, and maybe for that reason. I don’t like feeling like someone has control over where I go, and things of that nature. I know that when I’m in a car I’m still being herded around. I have to stay in the lines, take the exits to get to where I’m going. I just feel freer when driving around.

The culture of the world has bound one another with time, chains, and paths to be taken. America is not free, it is bound by its own rules and regulations that only the authorities and “well to do” (hollywood) seem to be able to circumvent. Where else can OJ Simpson walk free from killing his wife and lover? Where else can a congressman have sex in a public bathroom and get away with it? Where else can a congressman drive under the influence and get away with it? or how about a celebrity? America is the only place that this can happen, all the while I have to make the distance I travel longer because people would cause chaos from standing in a line.

This is really not about having to walk around a railing, this is about being trapped. Bound by the rules that other do not have to follow. When is the last time you have heard of congressmen taking a piss test for drugs? I have never heard of such. I think that they would have a leak if something like that did happen so they could prep for it.

If the leaders of America would submit themselves to the same that they submit the rest of the country to then we wouldn’t have some of the laws that we have. If I always have to fly my privet jet, why would I care if I make 10,000 people walk though the security at an air port barefoot. I can’t even walk into Target, Wal-mart, or any other place barefoot, why subject me to it with 10,000 other people. I wonder where someone thought up these ideas at.

I wonder if I could walk though at airport barefoot and get away with it. I think that I like my feet with out shoes on them more than I like the shoes. If I have to walk though security with out them, stands to reason that I should be able to walk anywhere with out them.

I digress.

Tags: rant, airport, herd, cattle, security, drug test, congressmen