Unfortunately all you say is true
andyZRH
What I meant - as froth on the turbid cappucino we get served - is that all
those dangerous, expensive, and authorities that cut into our civil rights do
not add a dime to our safety.
They reduce it on several accounts
- shooting nervous people who speak
Spanish. After all "la bamba" is sufficiently close to "bomba"
- they take away drugs from ill and frail people to watch them dehydrate and
perish on board
- they make it impossible to get a neutral, supranational assessment of their
effectiveness as they need to operate in disguise
- the bear the chance to go awry. The past showed that governmental bodies
which are no held publicly accountable for their actions become dangerous
very quickly. Claiming that Homeland Security is designed 'good' wherea
KGB was meant to be 'evil' is ignoring the fact that they served the same
'good' cause initially but had not been supervised.
The grotesque shoe carnivals and the ban on eye drops shows that the 'going
out of control' has already started. Also proclaiming that someone who sings
'my water bottle is a bomb' as an enemy of the state is incredibly similar
to what all the secret services of the dark past did.
Originally Posted by SleepOverGreenland
O..But, how would you messure effectiveness? Number of terrorists catched upon screening? Number of bombs identified?..
Actually YES.
How many terrorists (real ones with weapons, not hair bleach) have been arrested
at security checkpoints.
How many bombs have been retrieved from passengers' luggage.
If fear that the answer will be zero in a very good approximation. I only recall
the news that one Frankfurt police officer with her gun in her backpack has been
caught and one firearm in Scandinavia. I never read of any bomb retrieved ever.
But we can't say that as we are not told the details. After all we are terrorist
suspects
...