RainFree

squashed:

… for the same reasons I dislike police states. No liquids. No powders. No acting weird. No objection to random searches. No putting blankets on your lap. What’s the obsession with security? Once you’ve strengthened cockpit doors so planes can no longer be used as missiles, what separates them from any other potentially crowded area? Why the excess screening? The reason there are few attempts to blow up airplanes is not because we have successfully restricted people from blowing up airplanes. It’s because not many people want to blow up airplanes.

I sat down for dinner tonight in a restaurant full of people. None of them had even walked through metal detectors. I didn’t feel particularly unsafe. And if I had to board a plane with that same group of people, I wouldn’t particularly worry about them.

What’s the point of all the increasingly invasive security measures? Why isn’t there more of an outcry? Is it because we like what they symbolize?

 this makes sense.. but it also makes me wonder.. if we DID stop all of these “increasingly invasive security measures” what would happen? and also, an attack like before takes years to plan and you never know wen its coming. we as people need to be more aware and with that comes we need to be less racist so that we can honestly see a problem wen its there. and we as people need to have security measures because it reminds us that someone is watching so dont do anything wrong.. but these measures need to be more realistic and need to be randomized so they cannot b planned around.. if you knowww the rules, u can break them easier. right?