[Leica] Real patriots don't take pictures

[scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)]

Let's face it. In Israel (and Turkey, etc.) security is REAL. In the US, our
Homeland Security is a complete JOKE.  The US citizens who actully pay
for all of this are just one big "soft target" unworthy of real 
protection, hence
the ports and border and NOLA fiascos.

The main thrust of security post 9/11 is to whittle away at our rights and
make the populace scared, hence the current NSA wholesale communications
phishing expedition fiasco, harassing photographers, GITMO, reclassifying
public documents and so on.

I must sound like a crank, but I don't even watch the news every night.
It's just happening all around all of us in broad daylight - you don't have
to dig around for examples.  So, so sad.

Lord, I wish some righteous politician would just stand up and tell the
truth to the US public.

Scott

Frank Filippone wrote:

>Good point... another item to add the idiocy list.
>
>BD has a good point..... too much time and trouble hassling obviously
>innocent people, not enough time and effort spent working on real
>problems.....Harbors is a real threat, and since I live in LA, it is a real
>threat out here.  There are 15Million containers a year through the LA
>harbor.  That is roughly 40,000 a DAY.  Now there is a challenge worth
>pursuing.....How easy it would be to put something n a single container and
>get it through the port security.... Especially once the Labor Unions take
>over control of security.
>
>I told this story before, watching some 6 year old girl get frisked at
>security : a flight from Kauai to LA a few years ago... Her seat was picked
>for extra special random examination ( My wife got lucky too).  Saw the same
>thing with a 80+ year old grandmother.... all white bread types.
>
>Israel has dealt with this type of problem for years.   They have a
>different pattern of looking for the bad guys than the US has.  I still
>think that looking in the eyes of bad looking guys tells you something, and
>checking the pockets of a 6 year old tells you nothing.
>
>Now, how do I get to be King so I can fix this situation?
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
>
>  
>

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