While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Edmund S. Hawley, III, Transportation Security Administrator, rechristens the Transportation Security Operations Center (headquarters of the TSA, the Federal Air Marshal Service and the Federal Aviation Administration) in Herndon, virginia, as the oxymoronic “Freedom Center.”

        [restored 7/11/2024] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

3/29/2009                   3/9/2015

References:

Transportation Security Operations Center Re-Named Freedom Center
www.tsa.gov/press/speeches/freedom_dedication.shtm

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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