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IMO This is silly. Yeah I understand why we don't want the NSA looking into all our emails and phonecalls etc... But its a security check at an airport... This

IMO This is silly. Yeah I understand why we don't want the NSA looking into all our emails and phonecalls etc... But its a security check at an airport... This has to be one of the silliest things to get wound up about.

hvidgaard 13y ago
It's a matter of the principle - if you don't stand by the right to have freedom, someone will eventually erode it piece by piece. And The People will not care because "it's just a security check at an airport". It has been shown that they offer little to no added security, but they do reveal a lot about you and it is in electronic form. If it somehow was guaranteed that this information would never leak it would be a non concern - that is however not the case (they need to preserve this information in case it is needed). It is comparable to pictures of a strip search getting leaked.
tomelders 13y ago
It's a strip search. You don't have a problem with being strip searched?
- philliphaydon 13y ago
  Its not a strip search. It's an x-ray. And after watching the tv series "Embarrassing Bodies", I've come to realise we're all human and who really gives a FUCK what we look like under our clothes. If someone wants to get off over my x-ray scan good on them.
- onebaddude 13y ago
  >It's a strip search. No, it isn't. When you're in a back room with your clothes on the floor, being asked to lift your scrotum and spread your butt cheeks, you're being strip searched. The MM machines are annoying, invasive and potentially harmful, but saying it's analogous to being strip searched doesn't help the cause. You'll believe me if you're ever actually strip searched. It's a far worse violation.
jdavid 13y ago
It funds the surveillance state, and gives them a slippery slope statement. Why not put these as sporting events, a other government buildings, in schools? Or on street corners and then randomly or not so randomly ask citizens to go in them. If you don't think it's possible New York has been racially profiling people and searching them without cause, in a program called 'Stop and Frisk'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_pr... This isn't about Air Ports, this is about citizens and constitutional rights, rights that our government has taken an oath to uphold before anything else. Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: — “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

hvidgaard 13y ago

It's a matter of the principle - if you don't stand by the right to have freedom, someone will eventually erode it piece by piece. And The People will not care because "it's just a security check at an airport". It has been shown that they offer little to no added security, but they do reveal a lot about you and it is in electronic form. If it somehow was guaranteed that this information would never leak it would be a non concern - that is however not the case (they need to preserve this information in case it is needed). It is comparable to pictures of a strip search getting leaked.

tomelders 13y ago

It's a strip search. You don't have a problem with being strip searched?

philliphaydon 13y ago
Its not a strip search. It's an x-ray. And after watching the tv series "Embarrassing Bodies", I've come to realise we're all human and who really gives a FUCK what we look like under our clothes. If someone wants to get off over my x-ray scan good on them.
onebaddude 13y ago
>It's a strip search. No, it isn't. When you're in a back room with your clothes on the floor, being asked to lift your scrotum and spread your butt cheeks, you're being strip searched. The MM machines are annoying, invasive and potentially harmful, but saying it's analogous to being strip searched doesn't help the cause. You'll believe me if you're ever actually strip searched. It's a far worse violation.

jdavid 13y ago

It funds the surveillance state, and gives them a slippery slope statement. Why not put these as sporting events, a other government buildings, in schools? Or on street corners and then randomly or not so randomly ask citizens to go in them. If you don't think it's possible New York has been racially profiling people and searching them without cause, in a program called 'Stop and Frisk'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_pr... This isn't about Air Ports, this is about citizens and constitutional rights, rights that our government has taken an oath to uphold before anything else. Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: — “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”