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Strict New Security Measures Put In Place For CES 2016 Attendees (cepro.com)
CIStud writes: Due to the recent terror events, the Consumer Technology Association is instituting drastic new security measures for attendees coming to the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas from Janury 5-9, 2016. Attendees will be subject to metal detector screening and bomb-sniffing dogs, but the biggest potential bottleneck is that laptop computer bags are being discouraged. Bags with wheels will not even be allowed.
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*sigh*
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Seriously though, "security theater".
Will the metal detector near the video game section be called the "Gamer Gate"?
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What are they going to do when the terrorists realize that the long queues waiting to get through the security checkpoints are a ripe target?
I am probably over-reacting, but this does seem to be a little over the top? What next CES 2017, where only Hamish approved technology is permitted or lithium free access?
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What is wrong with bags with wheels?
Wheels are a symbol of science, engineering and progress. If you have wheels you are siding with the subversives.
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And a total waste of time. But people have to feel safe, so why not?
Imagine getting patted down or bodyscanned before entering Wal-Mart during the holday shopping season (after the 2017 Black Friday terrorist bombings and shootings in Ft. Lauderdale, Boise, and Albequerque.)
Sounds like the terrorists are winning.
There are well over a million incidents of violent crime in the US every year including four 9/11's of people killed each and every year. Yet people elect to freak out about rounding errors... Could his have anything at all to do with 24x7 terrorism propaganda being piped out of the media?
Millions of people are treated at hospitals for falls every year roughly another four 9/11s worth of death by falling each and every year. Nobody spends any time reporting on falls or murders of random "unimportant" people.
The people who WANT YOU to be AFRAID are the Media and the Government because fear increases viewership and makes those governed by "consent" more willing to cede power to government.
Meanwhile CES is busy creating unnecessary bottlenecks where people who have not been checked for WMD will mass in the name of safety for their own protection.
I was at CES for the last several years in a row, I just stopped going last year...
There is no way on earth with the huge numbers of people at CES that you can manage even the most rudimentary screening. Every single person is going to have at least a cellphone so it's not like you can even have a no-bag bypass line that just swims through a metal detector quickly.
They honestly would be smarter to recommend that attendees come armed with concealed weapons. Then an attacker could never be sure if any given crown would counterattack.
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That's been known for years. Why no one has ever exploited it I don't know.
I'll tell you why: because despite the billions of dollars we're throwing at "security" each year, and all of the fear propaganda being pumped out of the television 24/7, there just aren't many terrorists trying to attack us. Weak points exist everywhere in our society, there are plenty of effective ways to inflict mass casualties, and yet it's not happening with any regularity. The lack of attacks is not attributable to draconian security measures, as plenty of avenues are currently unsecured; it's because nobody's trying. The fact of the matter is, the threat of terror attacks is incredibly tiny and is not worth the sacrifices we're making.
By the way, one guy did attack a TSA line in Louisiana earlier this year. He wasn't brown, though, so nobody paid much attention.
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