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talkpoliticsHey there. This is a comics opinion of my own creation.
I've never flown. With what's happening in airports these days, I never will. Among my personal issues is a near-total mistrust of authority, & that's under normal circumstances. This developing TSA sitch isn't normal, but what if it becomes the accepted standard?
As many before me have, I try to ascertain where religious practices originate. One tradition's no pork/shellfish makes sense in a pre-refrigeration culture. With another tradition's three rinses of water over the body on the right & 3 on the left, it, too, makes sense when one realizes that a single rinse barely washes anything away; as a one-time floor cleaner, the first layer of water is applied to dissolve/absorb dirt & other substances; subsequent water applications then wash away the dirt-laden water.
So, with these new rules, where will our up-&-coming TSA agents come from? The standards set for the applications process for police, clergy, seniors care & daycare are acceptable if one assumes everyone is & remains reasonable & well-adjusted. And yet this is the tragic, human flaw that abusers find their way through in order to make contact with unassuming new victims.
Unless something changes, & quickly, this is going to become a worst-case scenario without ever seeing another bomb.
We are terrorizing ourselves with penetrating eyes & groping hand condoms.
I've never flown. With what's happening in airports these days, I never will. Among my personal issues is a near-total mistrust of authority, & that's under normal circumstances. This developing TSA sitch isn't normal, but what if it becomes the accepted standard?
As many before me have, I try to ascertain where religious practices originate. One tradition's no pork/shellfish makes sense in a pre-refrigeration culture. With another tradition's three rinses of water over the body on the right & 3 on the left, it, too, makes sense when one realizes that a single rinse barely washes anything away; as a one-time floor cleaner, the first layer of water is applied to dissolve/absorb dirt & other substances; subsequent water applications then wash away the dirt-laden water.
So, with these new rules, where will our up-&-coming TSA agents come from? The standards set for the applications process for police, clergy, seniors care & daycare are acceptable if one assumes everyone is & remains reasonable & well-adjusted. And yet this is the tragic, human flaw that abusers find their way through in order to make contact with unassuming new victims.
Unless something changes, & quickly, this is going to become a worst-case scenario without ever seeing another bomb.
We are terrorizing ourselves with penetrating eyes & groping hand condoms.
(no subject)
Date: 24/11/10 22:11 (UTC)The knowledge of terrorists in my city does not give any authority the right to search a random 20% of the homes in my city, nor a random 20% of the cars, nor a random 20% of the pedestrians. Nor a random 0.1% of those. And certainly not 'everyone who declines' a different random investigative procedure.
Your obvious-to-you-but-not-to-me question reveals you would rather live under a totalitarian regime than your current capitalist democratic republic.
I have trouble accepting that an authority could be 100% certain an attack is about to occur without that knowledge including who will be the perpetrator.
(no subject)
Date: 25/11/10 01:14 (UTC)Credible is the operative word. The small boy in the vid who was stripped of his hoodie? Not a credible threat. That is the difference.
Screencap till your heart's content.
(no subject)
Date: 25/11/10 01:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 25/11/10 01:15 (UTC)