I'm in a Police State of Mind

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
But it's absolutely LUDICROUS to pull the shakedown on the one guy who is ALREADY GONNA BE IN CONTROL OF THE PLANE.

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It is not ludicrous if the endgame is not safety/security, but control/power.

This surveillance stuff has never been about actual safety. Security has always been the tyrant's easiest pretext for shoving control down our throats. Look how many reasonable people on this list believe in the security it provides.

I wish more people would read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, and the afterword written by a security analyst. The book is free at craphound.com .

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

Ya wanna hear something scary? I send stuff around the country to trade shows, on shrink-wrapped pallets, so my boss has a tendency to fly with a utility knife in her purse - you know the ones - about 5-6" long, thick retractable razor blade. She keeps it in there, and forgets about it, and she's never once been searched or had anyone notice it when she flies. This has happened no less than half a dozen times.

How secure do y'all feel now?

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About the same.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Agreed, Frem. If the pilot is up to no good, his most effective weapon is between his ears, and no scanner is going to pick that up!

And for all the theatre, there's still the fact that on 9/11, the "weapons" used were simple boxcutters.

Ya wanna hear something scary? I send stuff around the country to trade shows, on shrink-wrapped pallets, so my boss has a tendency to fly with a utility knife in her purse - you know the ones - about 5-6" long, thick retractable razor blade. She keeps it in there, and forgets about it, and she's never once been searched or had anyone notice it when she flies. This has happened no less than half a dozen times.

How secure do y'all feel now?


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That is a fucking lie. You can't even get through the detectors with a bic lighter. You are a filthy gay liar. Do you expect us to believe she gets by with a 6' utility knife? You gays are hilarious.

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That is a fucking lie. You can't even get through the detectors with a bic lighter. You are a filthy gay liar. Do you expect us to believe she gets by with a 6' utility knife? You gays are hilarious.

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It even glows in the dark.

This is it:


http://www.uline.com/Product/Detail/H-906/Other-Free-Offers/Fish-Knife/


Your security theatre isn't making one person in this country any safer.

But I'll give you one point - it ISN'T six feet long, as you seem to think.


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I don't know how she manages that, Mike, or where she flies from/to or what, but it's damned hard to believe she gets away with it. I don't know of any halfway large airport that doesn't at least make you go through a metal detector and put your carry-on stuff in a bucket to go through the scanner. I had it happen to me coming from England, just BEFORE 9/11. My beloved Buck Knife got left behind because we were about to miss our plane and I was pissed...they would have either sent it to me or put it in cargo, I forget which it was so long ago, but they picked up on it immediately and wouldn't let me go through with it.

How does she get through with the increased security since 9/11?? Like I said, going to and from the Gulf, they made me take off my clunky Boot, shoes, and took away my mini-bottle of ice tea, so that sounds real strange to me. But then, what do I know?


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