Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Recent Terrorist Attacks Mean More Liberties to Be Taken


With the recent foiled attacks on two commercial jet liners by supposed Al Queida linked terrorists, this means that airport security will be beefed up and more of our freedoms and liberties will be taken from us.

From NBC News:

Only 19 U.S. airports have received sophisticated imaging machines that can detect explosives hidden in clothing.

Security experts say the scanners may be the best defense in stopping attacks such as an attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound aircraft Christmas Day.

The Transportation Security Administration wants to install more of the devices, known as whole-body imaging scanners, but the agency has met resistance from civil liberties groups, passengers and some members of Congress.

Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the nation's third busiest, has just two of the machines.

We go through this every time something happens with an airplane. When the shoe bomber tried to blow up his shoe, we all had to start taking our shoes off at the screening points, and now this terrorist had expolisives in his underwear...so does that mean I have to start stripping down to my boxers? Or will they just install that device that will see right through your clothes and invade all of your privacy?

These incidents of terror have been very isolated over the past 9 years, but every time one happens we get the great promise by our government that they will step up security in order to protect us.

It is a game they play with us in order to have more control over our privacy and the way we live our lives. The American people fall for it every single time it happens and when we go to the airport we bitch the whole time because it is a nuisance.

Stand up for your God given liberty and freedoms because every day we live we lose them one by one.

As Benjamin Franklin once said "The person that sacrifices liberty for security deserves neither."

4 Comments:

  1. What Next For Flyers, Underwear Checks?
    http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/holland11.1.html
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  2. Cavity searches for all
    NO Clothes allowed
    NO Luggage allowed
    No food or beverages
    No Standing
    No Sitting
    No Bathroom priviledges

    OR

    A Moratorium on Islam in the USA
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  3. I will never fly out of any airport that has one of those machines unless it is the last time I will spend my money in America.
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  4. Traveling in Asia this past spring:

    1) Did NOT have to take my shoes off
    2) Was NOT yelled at
    3) Was NOT patted-down
    4) Scanned by a thermal machine by simply walking through - NOT a full body invasive crotch scan (as the non-working LAX machine ;-)

    Best,
    A ticked off woman on vacation who will have to undergo 3 hrs of 'security theatre' enroute home from Canada.
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