I can't figure out a way to link to a comment on CNN's web site, so I'm reposting it here:
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What they do at the airports doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If you have to be seen or felt naked before you get on a plane in this country and security is police state tight at the airport but trains, buses, subways and everything else remain completely undefended. It's like if you were trying to build a defense around a castle and one wall was HUGE, 300 ft tall, barbed wire, troops defending it 24 hours a day, the whole nine yards - BUT the other three walls were half a foot tall, made out of plywood, and have no one guarding them at all. It would make no sense to do that and it makes no sense how we defend our airports by stripping everyones personal liberties but then not even have any security present at any other public transportation method. If I were a terrorist I wouldn't attack an airplane, I could get just as many people on the train.
So all these people out there who think it is necessary for this invasive behavior you HAVE to be absolutely OUTRAGED at how lax security is everywhere else right? You people must be so scared to get on a subway. I mean they don't see or feel your genitals before you get on a NYC subway, how can we possibly be safe?
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ROTFL! Very true!
Original can be found here, at the bottom of this opinion column:
Give thanks for America's common sense - CNN.com