Call it what you want.
I have to go through no fewer than 3 security checks when I go to work every day.
I don’t feel like my rights, liberties or dignities are forfieted.
I feel a deal of ease and safety knowing that if a terrorist wants to drive on post and blow us all up, he or she will have to figure out a better way to do it.
I know that myself and my 1500 co-workers and the cadets that we work for everyday consider ourselves to be stupid Americans.
Civilian airports are not military installations.
A few years ago, I walked into a federal building in Bangor, Maine. They had a walk through metal detector (WTMD). I had to place my change and keys in a small dish, then walk through. There were two security guards. I didn’t have to take off my parka, there was no wanding, no pat-down, no x-ray scanners, except for brief cases, no shoe removal, etc. It reminded me of airline travel in the 1970’s. Simple as pie.
wow. A rational American. who’d a thunk ?
Unless you’re getting a personal “pat down” by the security folks at WP everyday you go to work, there is no comparison.
And having been in the military for 20 years and currently working on a military facility, I am practically 100% positive you don’t. Unless you give the security forces some probable cause. Which in the case of TSA, there is no probable cause.
Having an ID card checked to verify you have a need or a purpose to access a certain facility at your work location is a lot different than having a stranger grope you, your wife or your children in the interest of “flying safety”.
“I feel a deal of ease and safety knowing that if a terrorist wants to drive on post and blow us all up, he or she will have to figure out a better way to do it.”
Like Ft. Hood? Just waltz in? Like that?