also in the not good department

[rm]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pecunium/70299.html?mode=reply

Is it just me, or is everyone operating out of weird fear of what our government could become and in the process helping it along?

Meanwhile, the airport thing I posted last night got Metafiltered: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/37361 where we discover that her story is apparently neither credible nor sympathetic because -- 1. she was crying, 2. she calls her partner "my beloved", 3. she's queer -- and that having strangers insert their fingers into our orafices is just the price we pay for safety.

Welcome to life as a woman. We do not exist except in perfection and blandness. I wonder, if she hadn't cried, would they have said she liked it?

Her defense, all of which involves points so obvious one really shouldn't have to make them, is here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/strange_selkie/87392.html

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

What disgusts me most about all of this is that large numbers of people support this government's increasingly vile excesses because they are honestly afraid of terrorism. I'm sick to death of hearing people's fears about terrorist attacks, especially since the actual risk is so trivial. I'm curious to know how bad things will have to get before people are more afraid of this government than they are of largely mythic dangers.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

I still stand by my theory that this is not a government excess, but an employee of going too far or being stupid.

The only difference between a TSA screener and the security guard at the mall is that they slept through a handful of classes and guessed lucky on a multiple choice quiz.

This has improved slightly in recent times, but really it's not that much different than when I was on the plane with teh nut job waving a knife and gun.