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[scotty12347]

Imagine how the world would have turned out if religion wasn't invented.

[beck's]

In the past, and I am writing about Victorian times here, the intellectual class promoted western way of life. Rudyard Kipling and others wrote poems and songs glorifying the British Empire. On my side of the pond, the Statue of Liberty was built to glorify American values albeit a little earlier. Writers, poets etc were Western boosters.

Today, it is the opposite. Even though Western culture is, without an argument, the most successful, most creative, most generous, the most humanitarian and the wealthiest the planet has ever known, our intellectual class refuses to recognize this.

In schools kids are taught the mantra of "multiculturalism," which means that all cultures are acceptable except Western culture. If they are taught anything about it at all it is negative--the slave trade, imperialism, colonialism etc.

I want us to imagine for a second how quickly a group of hate-mongering Nazi skinheads would be rounded up for saying the things that are regularly preached by many Imams in London--antisemitism, gay bashing, the removal of women's rights etc. But, the authorities let this go in the mistaken belief that other cultures should be able to propagate their racist beliefs. They get a pass in the civilized behavior department.

[Reggie]

As long as we continue to send men dreaming about a paycheck and a metal star to kill people, they will continue to send men dreaming about 72 virgins to kill people. Neither we nor they have a shortage of Darwin Award aspirants, hence this War on Terror stretching seemingly into infinity.

[Koveras]

Today's intellectual class, as a whole, is the same in spirit as it was at the time of the French Revolution: subversive and hostile to traditional European culture. Same rot, more advanced. Kipling is atypical.

[Gopher]

[Gillian57]

Body scan me? No thanks. There is still a Constitution and I still have my 4th Amemdment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. They can body scan me only when they have shown me a search warrent with my name on it. Not before.

[djsmnc]

I think the body scanner is a great idea! It's not like someone is going to be jerking off over a resonant image scan. At worst a few jockish TSA guys will giggle over someone's flaccid parts. So what. Beats having someone find some sort of spiritual gratification from blowing your body apart.

[Fox]

[blackjack]

[caniff]

[itaewonguy]

hey I wonder if images of celebrity scans will be sold to paparazzi and make their way into HELLO magazine hahahaha

emmm I always wondered if Dolly Parton had implants or not.. wont be long now before we all know hahahaha (still that thrill is like 20 years old she is old enough to be my grandmother now ) hahahahaha

emm so these scanners will pick up silicone right??

so whats to stop a terrorist who is a trained surgen to have had Peck implants which were filled with a liquid to look like its silicone.. and then while airbourne removes the liquid with some syringe and use that to blow up the plane!??

once that happens or he gets caught and tells how he did it... all passengers who have had plastic surgery will not be allowed to fly?

guess that will pretty much shut down LAX hahahaha

[Rusty Shackleford]

This whole thing is retarded. Airplane hijackings are so rare that they basically never occur. You can fly the equivalent of to Neptune and back TWICE and you will only encounter one hijacking. That is a statistical non event, yet we are expected to bend over and take it. What a sad joke.

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/30/odds-of-being-a-terr.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

[Fox]

[schwa]

I remember flying before there were any security measures. No metal detectors, no baggage checks. Check in & board. It didnt matter if the name on the ticket didnt match yours & you didnt even need any ID for domestic flights. Smoking or non?

There wasnt a dress code per se but people tended to wear their "sunday best." I remember childhood family outings where we'd drive to the airport just to watch planes come & go, woohoo big event! Innocent times.

It was Cubans put skyjacking on the map (late 60s) & started us down this road (guess who they were angry at). Ramped-up but simple security cut down on incidents but I guess the vulnerability was forever exposed to other haters. So whats to be done?

Beats me. I'm a fearless flyer based on the getting struck by lightning school of stats & I understand that some measures need to exist to deter wackjobs. But much of what "security" puts us through now at airports is clearly more about asserting "authority" than providing safety.

[bacasper]