Stupid is as Stupid spouts off on the radioFollow

If you do that more than once you're an idiot. If you do it once, you're still an idiot. Big boys wear slip on shoes or sandals to fly so we don't have to worry about that.

There are crazy elements in both parties. Good to see our forum can distinguish them. We need more of this.

I don't think the US is in a position to have an adult discussion of security versus privacy.

That said, I firmly believe we have gone too far toward security at the expense of privacy.

The price of freedom is not only the blood of our soldiers. Sometimes it is our own.

Are you saying white women over the age of 40 and under the ago of 25 should be excluded from airport security lines?

But they could be, and boy, wouldn't we feel silly once it happened! Actually, specifically targeting only dark brown people with funny headdresses would be a pretty good motivation to get old grannies or little girls to carry bombs. Besides, you always could get guys like this one and fake out security with a really good disguise.

We should only require security checks on those that look like terrorists?

God you're such a parrot. Think for yourself boy. Security, such as you find at our airports, treats all the same because any particular traveler is just as capable as any other of carrying some illegal trouble-making device on them. It has nothing to do with political correctness. If it did, why was the issue not brought up back in 2002 when the airports were required to beef up their surveillance by putting ALL passengers through more rigorous security checks?

The PC twist is wholly and totally propaganda.


Edited, Nov 22nd 2010 9:35pm by Elinda

"Adult discussion" is quickly becoming a phrase that triggers instant cynicism whenever I hear it mentioned in regards to politics, right along "fact-check" and "death panels."

I think we should all chip in to have Varus try and take explosives through security just so we can hear about him going "you don't need to search me, I'm not a dirty raghead".

Well... All Rosa Parks did was sit down on a bus seat.


Let's not pretend that small events getting blown up into central rallying cries for some cause is a new thing, ok?

Actually, badgers, what she did was refuse to get up.

Since no one has bothered, I'll play Varus's game:

The second you decide not to screen young/elderly white girls, AQ will find a Chechen war-widow, strap a bomb to her chest, and explode the next available flight.

That was easy. What's your next bright idea, varrus?

Why would you know this on a domestic flight?

Wait, you want to wait until AFTER another airplane is used as a terrorist weapon BEFORE you implement security measures on everyone equally? o_O