Reply #2: Most of this airline security isn't about security at all [View All]

[MadHound]

In fact most of the security at concerts, games, etc. isn't about security. It is about growing the police state, getting peope increasingly used to the idea of being searched and presenting papers whereever they go in public(and eventually in private). Today it is searching people who use airlines and subways, tommorrow it is searching people who are driving to work:shrug:

The other portion of this is controling the movement of people whom the goverment dislikes. Hard to be an effective leader of the Green Party or Greenpeace or a myriad of other groups if you can't fly.

Growing the police state and controling the population, that is what is happening now. Sadly, I doubt that the Democrats will do much, if anything, about this when they take power. After all, they won't want to appear to be "soft on terra". There's another election coming up after all:eyes: