So. You thought you could avoid those intrusive airport technological strip searches by not flying on a commercial plane? You thought they were just were doing that to "other people"? You thought it was okay to look the other way as your Fourth Amendment rights were violated when you flew on an airplane. It was all in the name of "safety", right?
Via Andy Greenberg (via an email from Chet), coming to your neighborhood soon:
Gee, I wonder why they didn't show any people in that video? Oh! Andy has some pictures of that too:
That is through vehicles. I would expect the walls of your home will be just as revealing. Imagine what you look like when you are just walking down the sidewalk.
Expect lots of "security sweeps" for the womens basketball and volleyball tournaments. We can't be too careful with our precious women at risk.
The phrase "concealed means concealed" now means nothing. And since we let them get away with it at airports what's so special about a public street now? Some terrorist could kill just as many people at the convention center as they could on an airplane. So why shouldn't the convention center have the same security theater as the our airplanes?
I've pointed this out before but what Pastor Martin Niemöller said about the Nazi's and what Sebastian observed, "What goes around comes around." is very true.
You play a very risky game when you make exceptions to fundamental principles.