It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by mishigas
My guess? You'd apologize for the real perps and march out the same tired arguments that it was the fault of 'tyranny and TPTB'.
Far from being an educated guess, sport, you are just one more sycophant of tyranny excusing the disparagement of rights in the name of fear.
There is no need to apologize for any criminality in order to assert my rights. It is a failed logic to assert that because I do not accept that I must surrender my rights so that you may harbor a delusion of safety that this becomes some sort of advocacy of criminality. The fact of the matter is that when people like you argue that rights must be surrendered so that you can feel safe, and the excuse is due to some act of terrorism that happened over a decade ago, not only has the crime of terrorism been perpetrated, albeit more than a decade ago, but now the crime of trampling all over individual rights is also perpetrated.
While there are many lunatics who have brilliant minds, there are also plenty of stupid lunatics, and they are the least tolerable of all.
Originally posted by jstanthrno1
I posted this on another of my favorite sites and everybody seems ok with it....
I think its absurd and cannot believe the governments goal of FEAR is actually succeeding.
Terrorist will sneak in bombs on children!!! My ass!!! That girl will feel feal eeverything she sees someone with a badge and thats exactly what they want.
There are already cases in the middle east of women and teenagers wearing bombs. To think that a really determined bad guy wouldn't use a child is naive.
Something I haven't seen in this thread is the mention of what lead to people wearing bombs. Pretty much boils down to people with destroyed lives that want to get even. They can't wage an "official" war like the wealthy countries. Maybe the solution to this whole situation is to stop killing people that our government tells us too. Violence begets violence.
All this talk of tyranny, rights and lots of big words. You do understand that airports are under federal control and they can stop you and search you for no apparent reason... Right? It's been that way as long as I can remember. And also, you never answered my question. a or b?
Originally posted by kathael
Either there's too much security or when something happens there isn't enough. I agree that it is pretty much taboo for this. I work in this industry and we have been informed via internal memorandums that there was an incident in England where a mother had strapped an IED on her child, whether that's true or not or just created to condone additional screening, it's still terrible. It's really sad to see what this world is coming to..
However, I would like to add that this TSA agent went about her job very professionally and made every attempt to explain the procedure to the family and the girl as it continued, and no, it's not a drug test (like stated by the mother at 1:25). Anyways, that's just my 2 cents.edit on 10-4-2011 by kathael because:
Originally posted by TKDRL
Keep dreaming there bub. Back when 9/11 happened, metal detectors and xray scans were in all airports... Funny how they miraculously all got box cutters on the flight. Last year a dude accidently brought a loaded gun on a flight... Time and time again they fail, even thought they are radiating and molesting people....
Originally posted by TKDRL
You ARE NOT any safer,
Originally posted by TKDRL
you are being conditioned to accept being violated, and to lick the feet of uniformed people.
Originally posted by SRTkid86
Originally posted by kathael
Either there's too much security or when something happens there isn't enough. I agree that it is pretty much taboo for this. I work in this industry and we have been informed via internal memorandums that there was an incident in England where a mother had strapped an IED on her child, whether that's true or not or just created to condone additional screening, it's still terrible. It's really sad to see what this world is coming to..
However, I would like to add that this TSA agent went about her job very professionally and made every attempt to explain the procedure to the family and the girl as it continued, and no, it's not a drug test (like stated by the mother at 1:25). Anyways, that's just my 2 cents.edit on 10-4-2011 by kathael because:
The stated intent and the actual intent are often not the same.
The TSA person likely doesn't know WHY they do things, they only know that they must do things because that is what they are told to do. Just like any other job.
They have no reason to pat the child down for bombs, but it is well known that parents use their children to traffic drugs because they are not as likely to get searched.
Anyone who believe this is for explosives needs to sit back and think about that for a minute.edit on 4/13/11 by SRTkid86 because: (no reason given)
TextBetween 1948 and 1957 there were 15 hijackings worldwide, an average of a little more than one per year. Between 1958 and 1967, this climbed to 48, or about five per year. The number grew to 38 in 1968 and 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.[4] Between 1968 and 1977, the annual average jumped to 41.
TextSeptember 11 presented an unprecedented threat because it involved suicide hijackers who could fly an aircraft. The "Common Strategy" approach was not designed to handle suicide hijackings, and the hijackers were able to exploit a weakness in the civil aviation security system. Since then the "Common Strategy" policy has no longer been used
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
Wow, so are we supposed to pretend you even have a clue as to what logic is?
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
The point that TKDRL is making is that no matter how many rights you and other petty tyrants trample upon, the security you use as the promise of exchange for those rights will never be fulfilled.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
If you and the other petty tyrants cannot devise a security system that respects the rights of people then get the hell out of the way and let someone who has a clue make a go of it.
Originally posted by Frogs
That wasn't about security. That was about conditioning and training. Conditioning and training that whatever the government wants to do is "for your own good".