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Originally Posted by will76
Everyone wants to live in lala land where they don't want any safety measures but they want to be 100% protected, sorry it doesn't work that way. Pick one.
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Honestly? I'll go with Don't want the govt. to protect me.
They didn't do any of this back when planes were actually being blown up and hijacked in the 1970's and 1980's. People seemed to be just fine flying hundreds of thousands of flights every year without needing govt. "protection".
Now we had a handful of guys with box cutters wreak havoc 10 years ago...and we are frisking people at airports?
And the actual shit that went down on 9-11 was effectively handled the second they put those locked solid steel doors on the cockpit. Nobody is gonna be hijacking any more planes into buildings anymore.
Also to me...it's kinda disturbing that if you went to get on a plane, and you went to security and they decide they want to "pat you down"...and then you say "NO" and decide that you no longer want to even get on the plane, you just want to say "fuck it" and go home...They won't let you go.
THAT is fucked up. It's a freakin' service industry for God's sake. But the govt. is so over-reaching in all this "terrorism" stuff that they are taking the whole thing to extremes.
I know...you can always say: "Well that guy is a TERRORIST! He could have realized he was busted with all those bombs and was trying to back out and maybe do it another day"
Yeah maybe. And maybe, just maybe one day the TSA will actually find even ONE bomb on somebody. So far they have found...drugs. I feel so much safer knowing that somebody won't be smoking a joint when they arrive at their destination. And I'm so happy to allow people in uniforms to order me about like a dog and search me.
Sorry guys. I don't like it one bit and never will. I hate flying now with a passion. I still have to do it. But it's all I can do to hold my temper at security. So don't anybody be surprised if one day you read about me getting my ass tazed at the airport for busting somebody right in the face.
