What a *clever* idea. I can just see the headlines: "Salami-equipped terrorist thwarted at the Albuquerque International Airport." I suppose the only remaining question is: should we use Italian hard salami, or something less threatening...
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Nick - > > You are spot on again... too bad we'll be drinking your share of the > bourbon tonight! > > > I agree with everything you say about fascism. Yours not a rant. Just an > exact description of what is happening. > > the very best kind of rant, the undeniable ones! > > > > But I am NOT clear why nudity is the bottom line. (};-]) We are absolutely > passive until we find ourselves in the “showers” and are asked to take our > clothes off? > > Actually I don't care so much about the presumed invasion of my body > space.... though the suckers get taken in everytime by the big salami I tape > into my trousers... you should *see* the looks on their faces! > > So, let’s imagine a scenario in which They say, “Ok. You’re correct! > No Junkyard dogs at the TSA checkpoints. However, in compensation, we are > going to have to start reading your mail, like the Israelis do.” (I don’t > know if the Iraeli’s do, but that is what they are going to say.). Look, > something is seriously amiss when Olberman and Beck agree on something. > > > > Hey, TSA no problem. Time to worry about Obamacare’s recommendation of > universal colonoscopies. (By the way, how do you copy a colonos, anyway?) > > Shit... (just to be colorful) you've got me there! > > > > PS: As a test of my position, I went to www.aclu.org to see if they were > on board with this hysteria. Ooops! They are! LOT of interesting stuff, > there, none of which supports my position. > > You are a gem. > > PPS: Did you hear or read the report that one can be exempt from BOTH > procedures on religious grounds by claiming to be a muslim woman? > > Heck, I've always been a Muslim woman... or at least I really enjoy playing > one on the internet! Drives the NSA boys NUTS! > > - Steve > > > > > *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com > [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com<friam-boun...@redfish.com>] > *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith > *Sent:* Sunday, November 21, 2010 4:00 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] TSA, security technology, and opting out > > > > Nick - > > Nah, Steve. I am going to rain on this parade. Sorry. > > I wondered what that splashing/drizzling was all about! Thanks a lot! > > For years we all had our inseams measured without accusing tailors of > homophilia. There is nothing inherently undignified in the search except > that perception makes it so. > > So, my barber who keeps dropping his comb into my lap *isn't* making a > pass at me? Shoots, I'll be needing to find another barber I guess! And > you might not be surprised, but I've never had a tailor handle my junk while > measuring my inseams... but then, that salesgirl at the store where I buy my > jeans is welcome to measure my inseams... but every time I ask, she declines > the opportunity. > > All of this “keep your mitts off my junk” (“JUNK!” WHERE THE HELL DID > THAT COME FROM?) is a juvenile distraction from two EXTREMELY important > issues. > > > > Are the back scatter scanners safe? > > Is security based on high cost machinery (rather than intelligence) > effective. > > It does give me pause that Michael Chertoff was, I understand, a serious > investor in the company that makes the machines. No I don’t have any > proof. > > I don't suppose I disagree that these are potentially important issues. > But I don't agree that submitting to escalating levels of invasive and > highly questionable measures based on induced hysteria is a "good and > necessary thing". > > I'm still of the strong belief that one of the errant memes amok in our > culture is the meme of fascism. The meme that insists that the good of the > whole is entirely dependent on and subservient to the whim of the > bureaucracy in place (and expanding). It is my firmly held opinion that the > majority of the response to 9/11 has been an opportunistic one, feeding > those who would feed this particular meme. Fascism positively loves fear! > > I'm also completely in tune with the theme.... "just because you are > paranoid, doesn't mean they are *not* out to get you". Yes, the great and > wonderful America the Beautiful has ENEMIES and they "Hate our Freedoms" > (What?) and they *will* hijack our planes and fly them into our tallest > buildings if given the chance... > > But I contend that there is also a rot within the souls of our own people > who "Hate our Freedoms" in an entirely different way. They hate our > freedom from fear, from administrative picayune control of everything. Just > go dump your wallet out on the table and look through *that junk* and tell > me that you are not being harried by a dozen or more trivial systems which > require you to step and fetch... driver's license (aka Universal ID), > Insurance card(s), credit cards, Social Security Card, Loyalty Shopping > Cards... the rest I'm not sure I wanna know! Then go check the file cabinet, > and the glove box of your car... or your stack of unopened (my case) or > recently opened (more likely) mail. The quantity and complexity of the > systems designed around keeping YOU in line is amazing. Dial up a right > wing talk radio station and listen to the rhetoric in the *advertising* on > identity theft (guard), it is positively disgusting! > > Yes, someone hates our freedoms, but I don't think it is the 12 year old > boys and girls spread across a great deal of the world strapping bombs onto > their chests to blow up our tanks (those not busy stepping on our errant > landmines)... *they* have something seriously sad going on in *their* > (short and likely miserable) lives as do our young men and women stuck in > the "stop-loss" war that is consuming their prime years, but the threat is > as much from within (all forms of paranoid hysteria and the fascist systems > and behaviour it can fuel) as from without. > > Ooops, I think I got off on a rant there! <grin> > > - Steve > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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