"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - - - William Blum

November 23, 2010

Seriously, folks. The TSA's newest airport screening procedures are not an attempt to make our lives more any more miserable. There's no foreign terrorist conspiracy to make our lives slightly less convenient. The new methods (full-body scan and optional pat-down) are the best ones we currently have available to detect explosives that are now so refined that the most recent security procedures would have missed them.

If just one or two of these explosives successfully brought down airliners over the US, the entire air travel industry would be thrown into chaos. Besides the loss of lives, the economy would likely take a nosedive, and people would be scared shitless to board another commercial plane.

The distain so many people are showing these days about the new security is insane. The government is actually trying to insure, the best way they can on a large scale, the safety of everyone. This is one of the prime objectives of all democratic governments. If there was a better and less intrusive way of doing this, it would be happening now. The spoiled, selfish nature of many Americans is quite evident with this latest uproar.

3 comments:

Seven of Six said...

The government is actually trying to insure, the best way they can on a large scale, the safety of everyone. This is one of the prime objectives of all democratic governments. If there was a better and less intrusive way of doing this, it would be happening now. The spoiled, selfish nature of many Americans is quite evident with this latest uproar.

I know what your saying Mike... I would like to interject that if we would stop killing innocent Muslims abroad, it certainly would lower our susceptibility to airline terrorism.
Then we could concentrate on training our TSA agents in profiling a little better... oy!

Mike said...

You're correct. When I said that they are trying to insure the safety of everyone, I should have said, "....the safety of everyone boarding at U.S. airports." We obviously don't give a shit about the safety of any non-American outside our own boarders, otherwise we wouldn't be invading countries willy-nilly (man, an I old) or blowing up Pakistani and Yemeni villages with our unmanned bombers.

Seven of Six said...

Mike, Looks like some bu$h cronies are making a profit off the airport scanners.