Posted: 11/26/2010 12:45:08 PM EDT
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Did anyone hear how the national "opt out" day at the TSA checkpoints went? Did people actually do it, or was the idea just people blowing smoke?
I was thinking about the different kinds of searches on children. Although I want children treated gently, doesn't treating people of other age groups more "roughly" amount to age discrimination? Gee, like no convict has ever thought of putting the dope in the baby's swaddling. Like no terrorist would consider putting the contraband in with the baby... |
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From what I can tell, the TSA limited the "random" screens with the AITs/gate rapes to avoid any issues. So on one hand, the opt-out protest was a success (the tsa cut down on doing them), and yet a failure (no massive backup protesting pissed people).
Oh, and the gate rapes do nothing to keep us safe, its a ploy to get us conditioned to have state approval for movement throughout the country. If it was about keeping us safe, we'd be emulating Israel's airport security processes, and ramping up our intelligence gathering. Only two things have made us safer since 9/11: the reinforced cockpit doors, and the knowledge that we have to fight back when an aircraft is hijacked. Everything else has been noise. |
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From what I can tell, the TSA limited the "random" screens with the AITs/gate rapes to avoid any issues. So on one hand, the opt-out protest was a success (the tsa cut down on doing them), and yet a failure (no massive backup protesting pissed people). Oh, and the gate rapes do nothing to keep us safe, its a ploy to get us conditioned to have state approval for movement throughout the country. If it was about keeping us safe, we'd be emulating Israel's airport security processes, and ramping up our intelligence gathering. Only two things have made us safer since 9/11: the reinforced cockpit doors, and the knowledge that we have to fight back when an aircraft is hijacked. Everything else has been noise. Yep. |
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The vast majority of the American populace is made up of the oblivious and the outright stupid. Think of the guy next to you on the highway yammering into his cell-phone to his wife about the kids, or his broker about why his trade didn't go though .005 seconds after he clicked "send." The same guy that spends voting day checking one column of boxes and voting a party line (whichever party) because he "didn't have time" to research any candidates or issues.
If you don't coddle these people with useless "security" procedures to make them "safer," you won't get voted back into office. I, for one, am not overly worried about my Gov't taking away my rights...they aren't anywhere near organized enough for that. What I worry about is my idiot neighbors giving away my rights because it "makes them feel better." The Gov't just do what the loudest voice tells them too...if the loudest voice are the lazy, the unemployed, the elderly, and others seeking their "earned" entitlements, I will continue to be taxed to death to fund said entitlements. Ditto with my rights to personal privacy and security. Please the masses, ignorant though they be, and you will get re-elected, and thus rich. Welcome to America. Our Founding Fathers weep as they spin in their graves. |
It appeared that TSA sent most of the people through the metal detector instead of the nude o scopes.