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RapierFugue -> RE: Don't bloody well touch me!!! (11/24/2010 10:19:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
What "Liberty" are we sacrificing? Think about it. We still have the liberty to travel. Searches through luggage has a been a procedure for a long time. X=raying bags, the norm for many years. Metal detectors are now in schools... i wonder why. ~tongue in cheek in case you missed the sarcasm there~
If they racially profiled, many would be screaming about that. Hell, i say scan everyone. Then no one will complain about being "profiled".
You are choosing to either a) have yourselves repeatedly irradiated by machines that no-one has done any long-term research into (and which have been rushed into production) or b) risk being sexually assaulted by minimum wage fuckwits with a minimum of training and (from the various videos I've seen today) a very poor attitude - in one the cameraman simply asks for their details, which they refuse to give. A cop standing next to them has no issues identifying themselves, by name.
The profiling isn't wholly by race either, so that's a red herring. You should watch that Olbermann video with the ex head of El-Al's security, and do a bit of reading.
If people want a society where individuals with constitutionally-supported rights blindly follow orders, even when their own government is risking their physical or mental health (I would presume you'd consider sexual assault something that would affect a person's mind?), while at the same time making them less, not more, secure, then I guess that's what is going to happen. But I suspect these recent incidents won't be the end of it - I strongly suspect that, sooner or later, there'll be a "breakthrough" case, where camera footage proves wrongdoing by TSA officials, and their role will be either scaled down or phased out. There are already persistent rumours that something along those lines is being considered.
Even if it did improve security it'd be wrong. The fact it doesn't (indeed, is counter-productive, according to many experts in the subject, by both diverting resources and making ordinary people less cooperative, to say nothing of the Muslims the scanners are liable to radicalise) makes it a bit of a joke, but one where I don't think people are going to end the story laughing.
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