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Re: Defeated

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Can someone please explain what's wrong with going through the machine? If it means not having my balls squeezed, it sounds pretty good to me.

Perhaps I want someone to squeeze my balls?

I think the main objection to the millimetre wave scanner is that it's a virtual strip search.

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#12
Although I truly simpatize with the person ( and the political subject ), I can only express my wonder towards humans as a species: in order to survive, we adapt by overcoming our fears, then we move on, forgetting what was all about. The next challenge is waiting.

Adapt or die ( figuratively speaking )!

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#13
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If you weren't alone, maybe things would of been different?

One of the lessons of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment was that people were much more likely to rebel if they weren't alone in doing so.

Maybe an 'anyone opting out on my flight' app would be a good idea. Although writing one would probably get you put on the terrorist watch list.

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#14
post #4

Can someone please explain what's wrong with going through the machine? If it means not having my balls squeezed, it sounds pretty good to me.

I don't trust them to not save the images, I don't trust them to not get hacked, and I don't want some random black hat to have images of my body over time.

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post #5
post #4

Can someone please explain what's wrong with going through the machine? If it means not having my balls squeezed, it sounds pretty good to me.

Because it's a strip search.

Further to that, once you can no longer travel in your own country without being strip searched it means, as the article puts it, that the terrorists have won. It's a test and a defense of freedom.

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#16
Please don't give up. We all have to value freedom more than to abandon it after half an hour apart from a laptop if we want to be free.

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#17
The next time you see a cop, take a photo. You are bound to get in trouble for that pretty soon as the cops don't like it and many don't seem to be aware that it is perfectly legal to do so. I wonder if it would help? You would be harassed a lot but you would prevent photographing cops from becoming de facto illegal.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the lessons of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment was that people were much more likely to rebel if they weren't alone in doing so.

Maybe an 'anyone opting out on my flight' app would be a good idea. Although writing one would probably get you put on the terrorist watch list.

That would be nice; you could actually have people on multiple flights opt out because there's a single security checkpoint for multiple gates.

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#19
1. My subtle way of fighting back is trying to keep my face off cameras everyplace I go. I stopped going to stores like Home Depot who have you on a cam the minute you walk in.

2. I'm glad you held out as long as you did.

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#20
An episode of South Park comes to mind 'The Entity',

"Despite this unorthodox control mechanism (which is uncomfortable to the citizens of South Park), "IT" is still considered better than the airlines and Garrison is a smashing success".

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