Thread: First straight shave, OMG!

Precisely. It always makes the news when someone blows up a building, hijacks a plane, goes on a murderous rampage, or some other insanity.

But the news doesn't report the millions of buildings where nothing significant happened today, the thousands of planes that completed their flights without mishap, or the billions of people who didn't get murdered.

I get so sick of all these underhanded ways of trying to micro-manage our movements and going-on's, under the false veil of "security." Secure from what? People still get shot on the streets, while they're busy giving a chick the size of a garden gnome crap for owning a straight. Please.

I just can't get off this damn soapbox today...

lol. My last soap box comment that I just remembered was some guy sneaked a bomb onto a plane in detroit the other day. By hiding the explosives in his underwear! Genius! Neither explosive nor matches are metal, and no one checks your underwear so...

My philosophy is if someone is crazy/evil enough to do something terrible, they are crazy/evil enough to find a way.

so, does that main you don't even try to stop them? We need to take reasonable safety measures.

Oh never did I say anything about agreeing with the policies; I was merely trying to provide a likely explanation.

Yes but would you like to live your entire life in a padded cell with a controlled atmosphere?
There is reasonable and there is going too far.

Originally Posted by Warbler

so, does that main you don't even try to stop them? We need to take reasonable safety measures.

Yes some measures are necessary but a well packed razor in an envelope is not a threat to anyone's safety

Originally Posted by MistressNomad

.... I just can't get off this damn soapbox today...

Move it runt. Off my soapbox.

I never said you don't try to stop them. But measures which would be likely to stop someone who wants to hurt others or commit a serious crime are not going to interfere with the privacy and freedom of the average person.

The sorts of things we're doing to "protect homeland security" don't actually work. Most have little, if anything, to do with modern techniques of terrorism and nearest I can tell, they're simply a way of keeping tabs on the masses.

ControlFreak - Try and make me! Tiny people are stubborn.

Originally Posted by MistressNomad

.... ControlFreak - Try and make me! Tiny people are stubborn.

Yes I know that they are. I'm sure that you are very obstinate.

But that is a divine drumstick.

Originally Posted by MistressNomad

The sorts of things we're doing to "protect homeland security" don't actually work. Most have little, if anything, to do with modern techniques of terrorism and nearest I can tell, they're simply a way of keeping tabs on the masses.

I agree with you on this Mistress. People are walking onto planes with bombs sewn into their clothes but they'll bust your @$$ real god if you try to take a nail file, etc. onto the plane....OOOOOOOOooooo. Not to mention the (pardon my french) **** poor intelligence work that's going on. I keep hearing the failed attempt here in the US around Xmas was a screw up because agencies weren't giving each other information...I seem to recall the same thing being said after 9/11/01...glad to see that they learned their lesson huh?

sorry, i have a lot more hostile words but I would get banned for sure