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My parents were paranoid about kidnappings. It was like perfect social engineering on my parents' generation with TV movies like Adam - the story of John Walsh'
by 300bps 4y ago
My parents were paranoid about kidnappings. It was like perfect social engineering on my parents' generation with TV movies like Adam - the story of John Walsh's son who was kidnapped and beheaded:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085136/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085136/
My parents had me and my siblings watch that movie with them - it is still unsettling to me thinking about it.
And then the FBI contacted my school and provided a voluntary program for parents to have their children fingerprinted. From my memory 95%+ of kids all lined up in my school and got fingerprinted to "protect them from kidnapping".
It honestly seems surreal - looking back it sure seems like a black ops campaign to get biometric data on a large portion of the U.S. youth population.
- azinman2 4y agoOr, they actually were thought to be useful for kidnappings and this was an honest attempt. Perhaps largely security theatre, I could imagine there have been a handful of cases where this was enough. The ever growing mistrust in government and society will become a self fulfilling promise. I worry about our future when no good and honest talent wants to work for the greater good at reduced pay.
- samatman 4y agoThere is abundant evidence suggesting that arrow of causality between FBI activity and public perception of them as dastardly flows in the opposite direction from the one you have presumed here.