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Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems
Hugh Pickens writes "The Hill reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for US vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary. '[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,' Napolitano said in an interview with Charlie Rose. 'I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime.' Napolitano added she hoped the US could get to a place in the future where Americans would not have to be as guarded against terrorist attacks as they are and that she was actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized. 'The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?' says Napolitano. 'I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.'"
And Obama. God it pains me to say it. Fuck you. What the fuck, man?
Hey, I voted for the guy, too, but why does it pain you? Why is the truth so hard to accept? This is not some aberration. He's not what you HOPEd he was. End of story. Move on.
Those of us paying attention knew exactly what he was, but voting for McCain/Palin was simply out of the question. Our only HOPE left was that the clusterfuck would be minimal.
The united states will clearly never be secured as long as there are people living there. Let's just deport EVERYONE back to the other countries, and the land of the free will be safe once it becomes the land of free space!
We need to subsidise firearm ownership and training for our most vulnerable people: the poor. I'm considering setting up a charity that gives guns, ammo and range time to inner-city minorities so that they can protect themselves from terrorists. Seems like such an obvious thing, I wonder why the NRA doesn't reach out to the urban non-white populations and encourage them to exercise their 2nd amendment rights. Perhaps the NAACP could change that A from Advancement to Arming.
Blar.
Exactly - the problem, of course, is the unsaid. It must be bleedingly obvious that the only way to keep Americans safe is to eliminate the motivation for blowing people up.
Now there are seemingly 2 ways to do that
a) be at peace with every ideology that has ever blown people up.
b) destroy the ideologies in question
However "being at peace" means that every American must continually behave in these ways : perfectly communist (burning anything religious) and perfectly religious, for at least 2 or 3 religions. Needless to say, this is impossible.
So the only alternative is ... eliminating the ideologies that, confronted with today's and tomorrow's reality, lead people to blow up others. Let's just leave open which ones they are.
Exactly. People like Cheney and Bush only get richer, and since they will never be held accountable for their actions, there will be others. The wars will continue, those who feel oppressed or occupied will fight back, and Haliburton and the body scanner manufacturers will continue to get rich.
Yes, I'll be the guy in front of you today getting groped, then dragged away for questioning. Will this post be worth it? No, because the vested interests are too powerful to stop, and anyway, you think the terrorists just hate us for our freedoms or some other Orwellian shit.
Lies about crimes
If everyone were to refuse to submit to these intrusions, they would be gone in a matter of days.
Who's with me?
The terrorists.