Welcome to the future, where apparently no price is too high for a sleek, post-modern illusion of security. According to this BBC Travel article, all sorts of new, hi-tech Bourne-Identity-meets-1984 methods of screening passengers at US airports are already coming off the assembly line and in some cases are even being tried out on the population.
Two things immediately come to mind:
1. If you try to defend freedom from those who would take it away with violence by eliminating it in the first place, doesn't that defeat the purpose of defending it? Wouldn't that not only ensure that we are "letting the terrorists win", but that we are in fact handing them a form of victory and doing much of the work for them? I am reminded of the famous Benjamin Franklin quote which everyone with a facebook account or collection of humorous t-shirts just adores: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
2. Some one is getting filthy fucking rich off of this.
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