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Originally Posted by tony404
yep 65 percent are for it and only 2 percent get it done. My mom flew yesterday and nothing happened. Its like do you want to be safe or not. I was watching the news and this right wing guy screaming about the gov taking nude pics of you. Its not like dean capture is sitting there with flashes.
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You know...
The thing is, Tony?
I'd rather take my chances. I've always been willing to take my chances. I'm more likely to die driving from Charlotte to Atlanta, than I am to be the victim of a terrorist attack.
The problem - for me - is that choosing to fly doesn't create probable cause, to my mind, for what is, in effect, a strip search. Further, I fly pretty regularly, I think we can all agree, and I'm pretty conversant in getting through security - so wen I DO follow the rules, and I'm STILL assaulted by a gate agent (which happened to me last month),
and forced to remove heirloom jewelry (which includes my grandmother's watch, my mother's wedding bands, and my great-grandmother's wedding set) and then NOT ALLOWED TO RETRIEVE IT as I am being held (do YOU let your jewelry out of your sights? I've never been asked to remove my jewelry prior that that flight, so tat was appalling enough)...? I don't see how that is doing fuck all to keep anyone safe.
Flying isn't a "voluntary" thing anymore, and as a US citizen, I am afforded the right to move freely between the states. If we are going to pretend that any of this is about safety, then we should also be willing to submit to background checks to buy cars and drive on interstates and stripsearches at each border.
What? Too far? Not really. It's kinda the same thing.