Thread: First straight shave, OMG!

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

Apparently the FBI and the CIA have the worst communication of any intelligence networks... ever. What's funny is that they work for the same damn country.

I've been pulled over by TSA, and the resident idiots at the borders of various other countries (though it's funnier when it's the TSA since, you know, I'M AMERICAN AND I LIVE HERE, but anyway...) simply for being dressed a little too hippie-ish, or having tattoos, or whatever. Stuff that has not a goddamn thing to do with national security at all. I look funny. That's reason enough.

I've started carrying some formal clothes in my overnight bag that I change into after I get off the plane just so they don't bug me. Profiling has gone absolutely rampant.

And while they're wasting their time playing 20 questions with me, some dude with tear gas up his sleeve happily walks on through.

It has nothing to do with national security. It's just an extention of the goverment getting way too up in telling people what to do.



Anyway...

Didn't this start out having something to do with straight razors?

Who cares?
We're having fun.
And it's raining outside.

Government Intelligence. Now there's an oxymoron.

Well whatdoyaknow, it's raining down here, too.