Why Andrew is scared to ride planes, with all the security, and crap that people have to go through to get on planes.
June 30, 2002
9-11: A Memoir: The experience of Andrew on that tragic day three years ago.
Civil Liberties for Bin Laden?: Why you shouldn't give up Civil Liberties & Rights During Wartime.
Crisis Events and Freedom: Crisis events are the main threat to freedom in our country.
Dealing with the Bioterror Threat: Suggestions on how to address this problem through tapping community resources.
Free the Basic Reservoir: 9/11 closed a great resource for locals. Let's reopen it now.
Logic in a World of Terror: Brief thoughts on logic, science, and policy in our post-9/11 world today.
More Thoughts on the PATRIOT Act and It's Sons: Andrew takes another look at the PATRIOT Act.
Poverty: The Root Cause of 9-11: Ending world poverty, will bring world peace.
Security Lies: When government promises security, they only promise lies.
She's Come Undone: Commentary on the PATRIOT Act and COINTELPRO.
Should We Support the Taliban?: A seditous article that argues for free speech and support of the Taliban.
Terrorism: Some thoughts on terrorism and our society.
Terrorism Strikes Deep: Two Months Later: A reflection of lost lives, enviromental destruction,lost civil liberties and a war.
Unfree America: America's lack of freedom in a coming of age, sucks.
Airport security is scary. Do I want people inspecting me that carefully, especially if somehow I could cause them to run a background check on me or I somehow step out of line.
While profiling is illegal (thank god, we don't need to go back to the days of legal descrimination), we know that airport security still does that. You don't have to be a black to be watched particularly careful either.
If you step out line slightly, seem in a hurry, or for some god reason fit 'the profile' of some crazy terrorist, who knows what the heck they will do to you. They could make you revile some really embarrasing details about your past, make you totally unpack you luggage, steal your property, make you late for flight.
Of course that is the least of things they could do to you, if for some reason you step out of line. They could detain you—forever. Put you in jail, take away all you rights, all without telling anybody, and not let you go. It's not clear if that applies only to non-citizens, or if it does to anybody. Just for looking the wrong way.
And who knows, if they will find some charges to post against you, that are totally fabricated. All with a secret jury, evidence that doesn't exist or is made by the FBI, and more. It's not like the FBI has not done this to it's political opponets.
I'm not really that scared of terrorism, I know that the chances of another terrorist incident are very unlikely.
Call me paranoid, but I'm am more afraid of being watched and being harrassed by security. As I've stated above, you don't know what will set them off, it's not clear if they will not use terrorist statues to harrass and harm the rest of us.
When your being watched, as a criminal, you know they are going to find something wrong with you sooner or later. That's a fact of life. Everybody breaks a law after a while—I don't even want to know how many crimes I have committed today, what their fines and jail time add up to.
The risk of being harrassed by security is too high for me, to take the risk. I'd rather just stay home, or drive with my car where I need to go. Do I really need to go that far away, or can it really be done around here?
Security sucks.
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