The US uncovered a new terrorist plot to explode a bomb on a plane that is much like the "underwear" bomb only more sophisticated. Thank you and congratulations to the intelligence agents who foiled that plot. (You can read more about it here.)
As I watched the news reports roll in, one thing nagged at me, why an underwear bomb? And one thing stuck out-- TSA. We, in America, already have a humiliating security screening at the airport. First we take off our shoes, then we step through a machine that shows us in all our glory, or we get patted down in a way our doctors wouldn't even do. Terrorists want terror. They want us to be afraid to live normal lives. By moving bombs this way they do a number of things. First if the bomb goes off, they win. Second, if the guy gets caught, but it makes Americans afraid to travel they win. And third, by forcing more and more invasive security searches, that remove more and more privacy and freedom, they win.
Each time a grandmother is searched by the TSA- the terrorists laugh.
I don't know how to solve the problem. We want to be safe, but we also want our privacy to be safe. Maybe we could learn a thing or two from Isreal?
Ron Paul 2012!! Save America!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised you didn't mention that all of these terror plots start in flights overseas, and yet we here in the States are subjected to the humiliation and terror of the TSA. My feelings are we need to have tougher regulaions and standards for overseas flights and just let things go back to the way they were before 9/11 here in the states. Because when it comes down to it there will never be another terror plot here. Always in some other country though.
ReplyDeleteAs for solving the problem -- start profiling. Yep, start looking at who is really on the plane and where they have been. So yes, sorry, that means if your name is Muhammed and you just got back from Pakistan you're going to be suspect. === an Israeli type system would really go a long way in improving airport security IMO. Because like you've just said, the terrorists win all three ways the way things are now. I don't fly because of it.