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View Poll Results: What decision will you be making for AIT scanners?
Bring on the naked photos 21 21.88%
I'll have the groper please 6 6.25%
I'll strip naked and let everyone have a look 16 16.67%
I won't fly 36 37.50%
I have to fly for business but no way are my kids going through this 8 8.33%
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Old 11-19-2010, 03:45 PM   #166
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I was actually referring to Terrorism in general in that it has got the entire world on edge and doing crazy s*it like these scanners and pat-downs shoe removal, underwear removal, etc....
Yes, I see. But things like this always freak me out. Life sometimes is embarrassing enough as it is, even without.... what did you say?............. UNDERWEAR REMOVAL?

Well, I think that would be a bit steep, even for me.
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Old 11-19-2010, 03:57 PM   #167
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Yes, I see. But things like this always freak me out. Life sometimes is embarrassing enough as it is, even without.... what did you say?............. UNDERWEAR REMOVAL?

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Yep....underwear bomber ya know....
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Old 11-19-2010, 04:09 PM   #168
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Yep....underwear bomber ya know....
Oops: in the future I'll have to look suspicious at the mid-section of my fellow-travellers. What a life.
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Old 11-19-2010, 04:11 PM   #169
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Old 11-19-2010, 04:20 PM   #170
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They give you a longer pat down if you wear an adult diaper.
Has to be a big sign somewhere: change diaper before pat-down and groping, please.
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Old 11-19-2010, 05:45 PM   #171
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Old 11-19-2010, 05:51 PM   #172
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But what, really have they won? What is it exactly that the little psychopaths hope to accomplish by killing people? Is it just to inconvenience us? In that case yep, they've won - they can stop now. Stupid F#$%Nuts....
What have they won?

Have you looked at the bill that our current two wars have racked up?

Have you looked at the bill that all this senseless internal "security" has racked up?

Have you considered how the "Department of Homeland Security" has consolidated our multiple branches of bureaucracy into one monolithic government agency that is so ponderous that disasters like Katrina turn out worse than they would have been before it's formation?

Have you considered how, not only the PATRIOT Act, but many other laws, big and small, constrict our freedoms and liberties more and more each day?

Have you considered how our country has become morally bankrupt with the practice of torture and our own brand of terrorism. (I refer specifically to the use of Predator drones to target "suspected" terrorists in Pakistan.)

The terrorists have won because we are abandoning our principles to gain safety. The terrorists have won because we are bankrupting ourselves monetarily, spending untold billions on dubious measures against a minor threat. Suppose one passenger flight goes down, is this going to cripple our country any more than the actions we have taken to protect ourselves?

Every day we allow our policies to be driven by the agenda of terrorists is a day the terrorists have won.
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Old 11-19-2010, 06:04 PM   #173
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Old 11-19-2010, 07:19 PM   #175
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It's not working for me. Sure; I'm embarrassed by the pattingg/groping down or the bodyscan.
But I'm even more embarrassed about myself, if I let that stop me from travelling where I want.
why be embarassed? there is nothing going on that everyone else is not going through.

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A bit like rain showers and VAT returns, getting felt up by some airport worker is an inconvenience, (unless she's nice and wants to run away with me and has lots of money), getting an image taken of what's going on under my clothes is an inconvenience, (though if the second happens, the first seems very unlikely). Being on an aeroplane that blows up, that's a real pain in the arse. So, if being an inconvenience of the order of rain counts as winning, then they've won.
like that!

all y'all are actually giving the bad guys a win in their column by seeing everyone up in arms. we're all going through the same thing. this should be viewed as working together towards a common goal. keep your head high, lace up your boots and march on. just remember that we all have the same equipment on the scanner screen, and the ones that are different mean harm.

seriously, y'all need to chill
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Maybe we should look at it like insurance companies do. Determine what an acceptable level of risk is and implement only what is needed.
That, my friend, is what makes the modern world go 'round. There is ALWAYS risk associated with everything. The question is; what amount of risk is acceptable; and if it's not what mitigation is needed to bring it to an acceptable level.

The problem arises when the people determining what’s acceptable are either irrational, or paranoid. Or worse, have a different agenda.
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why be embarassed? there is nothing going on that everyone else is not going through.



like that!

all y'all are actually giving the bad guys a win in their column by seeing everyone up in arms. we're all going through the same thing. this should be viewed as working together towards a common goal. keep your head high, lace up your boots and march on. just remember that we all have the same equipment on the scanner screen, and the ones that are different mean harm.

seriously, y'all need to chill
No, no not really.

You might be misunderstanding me, I don't give a damn about the security measures as an individual act, I object strongly to the mentality that it is engendering in the populace. "we're all going through the same thing", did the Jews think this as they walked through the gates?

"Working together towards a common goal"? What goal is that? Preserving our way of life? Guarding our liberty?

Do you really think our government has learned from it's own history? Do you seriously doubt that there is a department somewhere in Homeland Security that has a list of every descendant from Arab nations? Do you believe that they don't have a list of every practicing Muslim in our country? Do you doubt that if the threat appears big enough they won't act on those lists?

The Rule of Law has been ignored by our country and we are all in far worse danger from that than from a bunch of raggedy terrorists with badly made bombs in their underwear.
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That, my friend, is what makes the modern world go 'round. There is ALWAYS risk associated with everything. The question is; what amount of risk is acceptable; and if it's not what mitigation is needed to bring it to an acceptable level.

The problem arises when the people determining what’s acceptable are either irrational, or paranoid. Or worse, have a different agenda.
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