Shorter TSA: We're not going to deny that this guy can bring whatever he wants through, but having screened 600m passengers in the last year, we did once find a gun and some drugs. So you're safe! And if you don't think a dose of radiation is a good trade for pretend security, you can always wait another 15 minutes for a grumpy person to grope you.
Viral Video About Body Scanners
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#32The flippant behavior exhibited makes me both alarmed and angry.
Here's an interview with Blogger Bob that Google returned: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20063825-281.html
Apparently, being snarky on the government dime pays quite well. Dude appears to be rocking a Rolex.
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#33I'm almost impressed by the linguistic gymnastics taken here to avoid saying outright that they got caught with their pants down.
The post concludes on an entirely unrelated point to the premise of the post
|Anybody can opt out of the body scanner for a pat-down.
Sure, I'm carrying in a gun in my shirt pocket I'd like to get on the plane. Let me just request the patdown to make sure I get caught.
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#34There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality. Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.
That's because Huxley was right. ( http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse... )
I think the current reality is more of a mix between "A Brave New World" and "Farenheit 451". Bradbury deserves a mention there.
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#35There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality. Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.
That is when "not every press is good press" is a good thing.
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#36This has got to be one of the stupidest and (unintentionally) scary responses ever to a serious attempt to question security.
- Ad-Hominem attacks on the person raising the questions
- No direct refutatio of the specific points raised in the Video
- Co-relation and causation confusion (we have found x hence we are effective against the things in the video)
- Pathetic attempt at informal tone of voice
- Appeal to Stats and big impressive numbers when none is justified
In short - Americans need to be really upset that their security is handled by these buffoons. -
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#37"tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs" go BOOM?? I can't help but notice the glossing over of the mission creep.
[quote from article] ... Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field and has found things artfully concealed on passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs. It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go BOOM.
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#38Wow. This blog post makes me WAY more afraid of the TSA than the original video did. I can't wrap my head around the language used. "Things that go BOOM" ???!?!?! Are you fucking kidding me? These are the people that are supposedly acting in the interests of our safety? Disgusted. Whoever wrote or approved this post ought to be fired. Fast.
On a flight last week I overheard the TSA agent joke about the "torture" procedure he was about to inflict on my son when he opted out of a body scan. I don't find anything about the TSA to be humorous.
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#39I for one feel a lot safer thanks to this blog post from the TSA.
Keep up the great work TSA and thank you for putting my worries to rest.
-- Do I need to put sarcasm tags?
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#40There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality. Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.
Sometimes I wonder if we would be better off if 1984 and the like had never been written. It feels like people have been using them as a how-to manual.