A lot of people have been bitching lately about the new and added security at airports after the Christmas Day Underwear Bomber fiasco. The big thing is the 3D scanner thingy, which takes an image of the body under the clothes. People are balking over "privacy rights!"
Need I remind everyone that we live in a country where the Patriot Act is legal? We HAVE no privacy rights, remember? The government is allowed to look into our private lives for no reason other than the security of the Fatherland. Excuse me, Homeland. We're only a few steps away from the vans in V for Vendetta that patrol the streets listening to home conversations - because it's for the betterment of the country's safety. And your safety, presumably. Didn't we agree to give up some of those rights so that the country would be safe from terrorists? Well, aside from the fact that nobody in the Congress actually read the damn thing...but that's beside the point. And, since most people out there agree with the Patriot Act, we should not have any problem whatsoever about showing our undies to the TSA agent at the airport so that we can avoid a plane being blown up. Seems logical to me anyway.
Oh, right...we love extra security and the loss of privacy rights when it only affects someone else. But start to take away MY rights....and we can't stand for that one.
EARTH TO AMERICA
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