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Old Aug 24, 2007 | 7:30 am
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Originally Posted by BearX220
I think #2 is more likely, unfortunately. You need a mass movement to make #1 come true. But the majority of Americans don't fly much, and the majority that do are happy to do anything "if it makes us safer."

You throw a frog into boiling water and it goes nuts; you put a frog in a soothing pan of warm water and turn up the heat slowly and it senses no violation. We are going to wake up one day and find we're required to file 24-hour notice of interstate travel on a TSA website, and a majority will be OK with that. I really despair for this country.
Agree. Until the thought-process "abundance of caution" are stricken from the minds of those in power, we will continue down the path to self-destruction.

Almost daily I read in the paper about things that I did or enjoyed as a youth that have been banned or are now crimes.... out of "protecting us from ourselves". If it didn't hurt/kill us back then WHY do we need to ban it now?

/rant off
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