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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
You aren't sacrificing your freedom. You are still free to refrain from flying, if you don't like the process of doing so.
And in the broader picture, your suggestion that any security at all is somehow a violation of "freedom" (whatever we think that is) is unrealistic... and I'd bet you go against that statement every day, in some way or another... every time you lock a door, for example, or buy a product with a credit card.
Freedom and security are not mutually exclusive concepts. In many cases, you need security to be able to grant freedom. This happens to be one of them: Without security protecting flights and lives, there would be more and more serious threats during every flight, which would have an adverse impact on flying; and if flights are curtailed or cancelled because of threats or decreased ridership, or prices skyrocket to deal with the increased cost and insurance against loss of planes and lives, it could possibly prevent you from being able to fly at all.
Society at large has already accepted various levels of security, in order to make their lives safer or easier... this is just one more, and it's voluntary, at that. It does the best job of keeping planes flying, and allowing passengers to fly them comfortably. Until someone comes up with a better solution to making sure no one attacks my plane, I'm cool with it.
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There is a difference between taking reasonable precautions to protect oneself and paranoia. The security measures employed by the TSA have long since passed paranoia. And, yes, the excessive security measures do infringe on my freedom. The alternative you proposed (do not fly) in itself infringes on my freedom. This country needs to grow a pair and tell the terrorists we aren't afraid of them and will continue to live out lives unimpeded. Otherwise, the bastards have won.
I won't fly because of the ridiculous "security" regulations and especially now since I do not want to be exposed to unnecessary radiation and any stranger that touches my breasts or my gentalia (no matter how cute she may be) WILL draw back a bloody stump. I do not wish to go to jail for that. It's my body, damn it!