Well, consider this: When I was growning up, you could get on a plane as a passenger without having luggage or your personal things checked ... But today, would you even get on a plane that did not check? We DO give up some freedoms for security.
Hasn't done much good, as demonstrated today.
Well, consider this: When I was growning up, you could get on a plane as a passenger without having luggage or your personal things checked ... But today, would you even get on a plane that did not check? We DO give up some freedoms for security.No, we give up some freedoms for the empty promise of security. If there were true security for what we've given up, that security would have prevented this.
The fact that this happened is proof that we've given up some freedom for absolutely nothing.
Absolutely I would, and with more assurance of safety than I would compared to boarding a jet after going through a metal detector.
Why? Because I'd be armed when I flew if there were no "security" checks, and most likely so would several other honest citizens on the same plane. And anyone who tried to hijack the plane would find their heads blown off the moment their attention wandered far enough for me to get the element of surprise.
Currently, however, I'm unarmed when I fly and I'd be helpless, at the "mercy" of my captors, if the plane were hijacked.
Getting a clue yet? Nah, I doubt it...
We DO give up some freedoms for security.
No we don't. We give up freedoms for the promise of a security that doesn't exist.
Absolutely I would, and with more assurance of safety than I would compared to boarding a jet after going through a metal detector.
Why? Because I'd be armed when I flew if there were no "security" checks, and most likely so would several other honest citizens on the same plane. And anyone who tried to hijack the plane would find their heads blown off the moment their attention wandered far enough for me to get the element of surprise.
Currently, however, I'm unarmed when I fly and I'd be helpless, at the "mercy" of my captors, if the plane were hijacked.
Getting a clue yet? Nah, I doubt it...
We DO give up some freedoms for security.
No we don't. We give up freedoms for the promise of a security that doesn't exist.
You don't have to fly. You know they don't check 'checked' luggage - except on some international flights. Anyone who wanted to put a bomb on a domestic flight could do it easily with nearly no risk of detection.
-bc
Of course I would, because I would be, as I was back then, armed and competent in use.
How many thousands would be alive now had there been anyone on any of those three airplanes capable of offering a competent resistance?
When you buy an airline ticket, you enter into a contract with the airline. You voluntarily consent to a search because it protects your security and the security of the other passengers. No rights are being taken from you.
I remember flying from Okinawa to San Francisco in 1967 aboard a civilian airliner with a loaded German Luger,and "Yes,I declared it for customs".