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I'd rather live in a country without extensive security searches and have the .0001% chance of being killed in a terrorist attack than live in a country where a 6-year-old girl is molested in public in the name of security. You have a higher chance of being killed by a bee sting or being struck by lightning than dying in a terrorist attack for crying out loud!
Sadly, I think we've reached the point of no return. The American people don't have the backbone to do anything against the government, and I seriously doubt that will change, even when we are all starving and jobless. We've been conditioned from birth to accept everything, and we don't know how to *intelligently and strategically* act rebellious. Instead we are here on ATS, keyboard warriors, raging away in a closed-circuit discussion. We are just letting off steam. We aren't planning demonstrations, or calling Congress. We are just venting until our anger eventually subsides and moves onto the next flavor of the week outrage.
Anybody that follows politics and politicraps knows that for every attempt in this nation to either domestic and foreign treats has been followed by nothing but more money scams in the name of security and more laws to infringe in Americans rights and privacy.
So far none of the laws and security measures are geared to terrorist directly, terrorist live and thrive as usual in the same areas of the world and they will keep thriving while we in our nation become more and more enslave by the same corporate elite that is profiting from our tax payers money while using fearmongering to get their goal.
Our worst enemy in this nation is our ourselves, for believing the corporate appointed guardians and falling for their scaremongering.
Name one industrialized nation that has no equivalent security in their airports? Just one.
Originally posted by northexpedition
reply to post by mishigas
Name one industrialized nation that has no equivalent security in their airports? Just one.
How about every other industrialized nation? No other industrialized nation gropes 6-year-old girls and puts their hands down people's pants. Only the United States.
...scanners are not new. The BBC’s Geraldine Kaufflin says that at Schipol airport in the Netherlands, they started using them earlier this year.
people here in India are pretty used to great detailed security checks.
For years now, more than a decade, complete frisking, people here are quite used to being patted down.
In the capital of Indian administered Kashmir, there are several layers of security.
There is a security check post that’s been created a few kilometers from the airport. You have to go through the same drill of being frisked, your baggage is x-rayed, you have to take everything out of the taxi.
Then, before you enter the airport there is another round of checking and then inside the airport you have once again to go through the same exercise.
It’s fairly long, detailed, but people generally are very, very cooperative; people go through that without ever asking any questions. I’m Jyostna Singh in New Delhi.
reply to post by maybereal11
I was referring to pat downs, not body scanners. I didn't say anything about body scanners, please reread my post before saying I don't know anything about body scanners being used in other countries.
reply to post by celimonster
Come on now, it's obviously unnecessary. You can't go through life expecting total safety. It is *significantly* more risky to drive an automobile to and from work every day than to get killed by a terrorist attack.
Should we then ban cars because you might get hurt in an auto accident?
Touching the private parts of anyone (except two consenting adults) warrants a serious sexual offence but TSA are excempt?