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Originally Posted by matthew330
Apathy has nothing to do with this. This procedure is not government overstepping its bounds for the sake of governmental control. Its about keeping keeping us safe in an area that is currently the #1 prime target of terrorists. Whether or not this procedure is effective, worth the cost, or would be better left in the hands of a private company (with some amount of oversight from the government) is debatable. But I need to get from here to there, air travel is the only way to do it and this is an effort at making sure my plane is blown up on the way. Not one single one of my individual liberties is threatened here. Its hysteria to suggest it is.
As it is, this screening is nothing more than a moment in time whose purpose is clearly security driven.
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I really couldn't disagree any more with this. What made 9/11 so successful was the totally unprecedented nature of the attacks. They've changed the way we think about war and security primarily because before they occurred we wouldn't have been able to imagine what went down as a possibility.
This is definitely a case of the government overstepping its bounds not only for the sake of implementing control but as an attempt to cover up its glaringly obvious inadequacies: it is simply too slow to action and incapable of thinking as creatively as those who have a stake in blowing shit up.
Calling this nonsense out for what it is isn't hysteria - it's what you're supposed to do.