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Old November 13th, 2004, 06:28 AM
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Scott en Aztlán wrote:

With these geniuses in charge of security, airline travel is no more
secure today that it was on 9/11. All we've done is created an
entirely new class of civil servant control freaks and given them
power to **** with peoples' lives.


isn't that the truth?
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Old November 13th, 2004, 08:41 AM
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"Scott en Aztlán" wrote:
With these geniuses in charge of security, airline travel is no more
secure today that it was on 9/11. All we've done is created an
entirely new class of civil servant control freaks and given them
power to **** with peoples' lives.


There is a certain amount of security in "random" security since it makes it
much harder to plan some attack.
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Old November 13th, 2004, 08:41 AM
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"Scott en Aztlán" wrote:
With these geniuses in charge of security, airline travel is no more
secure today that it was on 9/11. All we've done is created an
entirely new class of civil servant control freaks and given them
power to **** with peoples' lives.


There is a certain amount of security in "random" security since it makes it
much harder to plan some attack.
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Old November 13th, 2004, 02:30 PM
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"Scott en Aztlán" wrote in message
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On 12 Nov 2004 10:57:47 -0800, (Geoff Miller)
wrote:


But it *is* necessary, Paul, and the grownups among us understand
that and have come to terms with it. You should try and do the
same.


Geoff That's fine. If you want to submit the government "security,"
measures, inorder to excercise a privledge (travelling by air), that's
fine with me. I chose not to submit to those measures and as such, I
don't travel by air as air travel is not a right. I'd rather be secure
in my person and my possessions at the expense of getting somewhere a
little quicker.

My friend had a fun experience flying home the other day. Seems our
last name is similar to another passenger on the flight - a passenger
that the airline had flagged for "extra" screening. They gave my
friend this woman's boarding pass by mistake; my friend didn't notice
right away.


Gee, I wonder why the other person was "flagged." ****ed off a gate
agent somewhere?

When she got to the screening station, she got the full treatment: the
wanding, the swabbing, the individual inspection of every item in her
luggage. The brilliant agents of the TSA didn't notice that the
boarding pass was incorrect, either - even though they looked at my
friend's ID.


sarcasm Instills alot of confidence in the tsa, doesn't it? /sarcasm

After the screening was over, my friend went to the gate. It was then
she noticed that she had the wrong boarding pass. So she went to the
airline counter, explained what had happened, and received the correct


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entirely new class of civil servant control freaks and given them
power to **** with peoples' lives.


Yet another reason to stay the hell off commercial airlines if at all
possible. The civil servants running the security show couldn't screen
out a terrorist if their own lives depended on it.


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Old November 13th, 2004, 05:46 PM
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nobody wrote:

There is a certain amount of security in "random" security since it makes it
much harder to plan some attack.



Ah, so the chaos is actually part of some brilliant plan ... I get it!
(-; (-; (-;

gld

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Old November 13th, 2004, 08:42 PM
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:50:29 -0800, Scott en Aztlán



With these geniuses in charge of security, airline travel is no more
secure today that it was on 9/11. All we've done is created an
entirely new class of civil servant control freaks and given them
power to **** with peoples' lives.


Yep. I think most people agree we need good security in airports, but
gov't. bureauracy never does anything very well.

Just another reason to be afraid of socialized medicine.
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There's no way to delay that trouble comin' everyday
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Old November 13th, 2004, 09:56 PM
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"Mike Z. Helm" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:50:29 -0800, Scott en Aztlán



With these geniuses in charge of security, airline travel is no more
secure today that it was on 9/11. All we've done is created an
entirely new class of civil servant control freaks and given them
power to **** with peoples' lives.


Yep. I think most people agree we need good security in airports, but
gov't. bureauracy never does anything very well.

Just another reason to be afraid of socialized medicine.


------- AMEN!! -------


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Old November 14th, 2004, 03:57 AM
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In article , Scott en Aztlán wrote:

With these geniuses in charge of security, airline travel is no more
secure today that it was on 9/11. All we've done is created an
entirely new class of civil servant control freaks and given them
power to **** with peoples' lives.


Exactly. And they **** with peoples' lives because they are incompetent
or just because they can.


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Old November 14th, 2004, 08:09 AM
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Mike Z. Helm wrote:

Just another reason to be afraid of socialized medicine.



Abolish Medicare?

gld


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Old November 14th, 2004, 08:09 AM
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Mike Z. Helm wrote:

Just another reason to be afraid of socialized medicine.



Abolish Medicare?

gld


 




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