Omar B
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Gonna? Mine have been wrapped for years ... just in case.
The Joke's on Us
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Gonna? Mine have been wrapped for years ... just in case.
Are you speaking for all Americans?
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Who's he?
Omar B
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He's a she, and a very hot Victoria's Secret model.
Jenny_in_Chico
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Remember that scene from "This is Spinal Tap" when Derek Smalls goes through the metal detector, it goes off, he's subjected to wanding and it whines right over his groin. Then he pulls out this MASSIVE cucumber wrapped in tinfoil. Classic.
I'd so do that, but I hear that the only people with less of a sense of humor than the Border Patrol is the TSA.
Jenny_in_Chico
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You could always do it with a tamale and claim it was your lunch. Eat the damn thing right there.
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I'm not even American. I am an outside observer.
-IF- the majority of Americans actually cared about security in a rational way, then the security cicus terrrrrrrrism scare would not have been getting more and more ridiculous AND ineffective AND offensive at the same time.
Or it could all be a practical joke. Kinda like the people in power making bets on how far they can go. 'Look, we'ver taken away their toothpaste. Now let's make them keep their hands above their blankets, forbid them to go to the bathroom, and have people look at them naked including the kids. I've got 50$ saying they will just go moo and go along'
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I agree with the poster who put up the article about Israeli security. We have to start focusing on the PEOPLE who present the greatest threat.
Our "PC" approach of "frisk everybody so we don't appear to be discriminating against anybody" is a sign of how far down the PC rabbit hole we have fallen. Rather than "profile" the people who are most likely terrorists we start these insane "frisk everyone" policies and a dude from YEMEN who's own FATHER warned authorities was a threat sneaks through.
If it weren't so ****ing dangerous I'd think it was funny.
Our "PC" approach of "frisk everybody so we don't appear to be discriminating against anybody" is a sign of how far down the PC rabbit hole we have fallen. Rather than "profile" the people who are most likely terrorists we start these insane "frisk everyone" policies and a dude from YEMEN who's own FATHER warned authorities was a threat sneaks through.
If it weren't so ****ing dangerous I'd think it was funny.
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"The Suppository Bomber". :roflmao:
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Officer, that better be your finger.
Jenny_in_Chico
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However...let us not forget that a substantial proportion of domestic terrorism is committed by fundamentalist Christian groups against abortion clinics, stem cell researchers, etc. Religious fervor and distorted thinking crosses all cultural boundaries, folks.
It's divide and conquer, Jenny, all terrorism is rare and does not require an egregious loss of liberty. The sad thing is that these sentiments are carefully put out in the media and are meant to get us pointing fingers at each other so we have less energy to spend looking at how the government is abridging our freedoms. Also, if everyone is screaming about who the real "terrorists" are, then it must mean that we have terrorists everywhere and we all need to be watched. That is how this stuff gets justified in the minds of the public.
That's how we ended up with these guys...
http://www.infragard.net/
The bottom line is that we live in a society where information is manipulated and controlled to a high degree. When you figure it out, you can pretty much guess what kinds of responses comments like yours will draw.
Jenny_in_Chico
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I expect that people are much for concerned about an external threat from people of a different religion, than they are from an internal threat from people of the predominant religion. So comments like mine will probably be minimized or ignored. Personally, I think that religious fundamentalism if dangerous. Whatever the religion.
I'm an atheist, so take my comments as coming from someone on the outside looking in. Personally, I don't worry too much about religious fundamentalists. There are a lot of other things that have a higher percent chance of hurting me. Bees, for example, more people die from bee stings then they do from religious fundamentalist terrorism. I've been stung by bees, I have never met a religious fundamentalist that has ever tried to hurt me. Lets keep it real by talking about experience, because that is what we know to actually exist. The world portrayed by the media is a complete farce.
As long as they are not trying to force me to live my life the way they think I should live it, I don't care how they choose to live their life. That is my only beef with religious fundamentalists. It's certainly not something that I need to worry so much that I would trundle my children through a naked body scanner so that some TSA pervert can get off. That is a real threat to me. I see that as having potential to cause me and my family more pain then any religious fundamentalist. The bottom line is that I believe that a lot of the hype against religions is contrived. The powers that be use it as a tool to manipulate people by creating and fanning various kinds of prejudice. I have been (and I discover that I still am) a victim of this all of time.
As I wake up and realize that I am in control of reality around me and that I have the power of observation and discernment, I can start to use my own mental faculties to determine what is a threat and what is not. I will never again abrogate my right to determine who is the enemy.
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Let’s do a test. I’ll walk the streets of a Christian country with a derogatory cartoon of Jesus.
You’ll walk the streets of a Islamic country with a derogatory cartoon of Muhammad.
We’ll see who come out alive to post here.
You’ll walk the streets of a Islamic country with a derogatory cartoon of Muhammad.
We’ll see who come out alive to post here.
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