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Are there actually any significant number of people that are acually pleased with the TSA, the naked scanners, the intrusive patdowns, and the bigger security t
by henrikschroder 15y ago
Are there actually any significant number of people that are acually pleased with the TSA, the naked scanners, the intrusive patdowns, and the bigger security theater?
I can see people being fooled by the theater and grudgingly accept it, but does anyone like it and think it should be expanded?
- anigbrowl 15y agoLots of people like it. To the extent that it inconveniences them, they wish it were directed solely at Muslim-looking foreigners, but are willing to accept the security theater because they have a siege mentality. Similarly, there's a good number of people that call for ever more draconian enforcement of immigration laws, despite both economic costs and significant inconvenience to US citizens, Latinos in particular. The US frankly has a bit of a security fetish; you might find this paper interesting: http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/GarrisonAmerica2007.pdf http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bowles/GarrisonAmerica2007.pdf