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[Sinfulwolf]

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Sorry, I don't see any pedophilia in there.

The concept of pedophilia shouldn't even have come into that story really. Those security rules are in there for good reason. Someone with intent to make an attack can't be expected to be above using a child to smuggle something. I see no reason why a child should be exempt in any way. If anything the airport staff could merely do with being a bit more prepared for the instance of awkward children.

I agree with Squiddy a 100% there, it wouldn't have been the first time a child or a teddy bear was used after all. Though I do agree that they may want the TSA guy's prepared a little better for handling children. I mean it wouldn't take much for them to do like a doctor or dentist and stock up on stickers and lollipops. To ease the kids fears a little.

Agreed, I've seen children and children's toys used as weapons before, and people who think that searching them is wrong just come across as naive to the true nature of the world to me. Sure children being used as weapons or screens for an attack don't happen too often in North America, but that doesn't mean it can't happen or that people wanting to bring harm to others won't consider using that innocence as a shield. It's happened to a friend.

Regardless yes the guy could have been a little better prepared for it, but maybe the father should have tried to calm his daughter down instead of using her distress as fodder to bash a security system put in place to protect his own fucking asshole.

I want to disagree with this, but upon consideration the rules are there for good reason. The rules are just shitty.

The rules aren't shitty, the need for the rules are shitty. Would you rather have security, or folks running amok through airports doing what they will?

 

[Newbie]

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The rules aren't shitty, the need for the rules are shitty. Would you rather have security, or folks running amok through airports doing what they will?

There will always be a need for some security, and deciding that we need more security because bad shit happens isn't necessarily bad. But when the choice the TSA gives you is get in a machine that displays you basically naked and going through a pat down designed to be embarrassing and improper rather than effective? The rules are shitty.

 

[Incubus]

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I'm just gonna sit here and be smug about not being in a terrorist target zone.

 

[Quartz]

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The TSA has a pretty awful track record of stopping attacks though, even with its increased screening. All the recent stuff has either been acted upon by the intelligence community before the TSA gets involved or the terrorists got right past the TSA and were thwarted by folks on the plane and/or their own incompetence. I don't understand where this abundance of faith in the TSA's ability to stop attacks comes from.

Not that I really care all that much, since the idea of somebody having bizarre X-ray like images of my junk simply doesn't bother me.

 

[Wonderboy]

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Airport security is mostly a visual deterrent. I've travelled and only realised when I'm unpacking that I've had a knife in my handluggage for two flights. Not only that, but it's very easy to get yourself through the security check. The thing is, that as long as there is a security check, less people will try bad shit. Most actions are halted by intelligence, rather than airport security measures, but the airport security measures keep unorganised crazy people from trying, and leave the job of catching the organized to intelligence.

 

[Sinfulwolf]

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There will always be a need for some security, and deciding that we need more security because bad shit happens isn't necessarily bad. But when the choice the TSA gives you is get in a machine that displays you basically naked and going through a pat down designed to be embarrassing and improper rather than effective? The rules are shitty.

All pat downs involve the genitals because people have been known to hide all sorts of crap there. Between the breasts under the balls, and they do it because it's "improper" to search there and think they can get away with it.

 

[Ranger Princess]

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I usually don't mind getting searched because it does make me feel better to know that security is actually looking and hopefully I will be more safe where ever I go.

I think the problem is in making and interpreting the rules to be fair and effective. Like before they modified the rules of Section 44 of the Terrorist Act in the UK, police could search anyone without any grounds for suspicion in designated areas. Of course when you do that, people start to be stopped not because they look suspicious but because they aren't white.

Its hard to make laws that are both fair and effective because there are usually just too many people to search everyone. If you don't search everyone, you have discrimination against racial minorities. I think its important for security to keep people safe. At the same time, the discrimination involved in many of the searches just makes people more alienated and mistrustful of one another and that hardly makes anyone safe.

 

[SirOni]

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Also on the topic of paedophilia,

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[TheWeirdOne]

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People tend to overreact on the Body Scanner thing, there's a lot of fake images floating around that makes the body scanner seem way more graphic then it really is. I remember the media jumped on one and showed it alot, when with a little research, people at JREF found out it was really just a tinted image of some naked girl that posing for a website of some sort.

 

[SirOni]

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Dunno if any of you Americans will be able to browse the site but,

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[TheWeirdOne]

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Dunno if any of you Americans will be able to browse the site but,

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I vote you steal it and go on a rampage and conquer the world! In the name of Tentacles!

 

[SirOni]

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I could, but it would mean having to get fighting off against a hundred or so people. Which I'm pretty sure that I can't do. Also, I'll be in Cardiff and it should hopefully be finished by the time I get back otherwise I'll have to walk home.

 

[Pale]

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Hm. To stalk Oni, or not to stalk Oni.

P

 

[TheWeirdOne]

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Hm. To stalk Oni, or not to stalk Oni.

P

Do whatever makes you happy!

At others expense.

 

[SirOni]

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Knowing her it would probably be to either torture or kill me. Or maybe both.

 

[Pale]

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Well, a little digging and some google searching found his name, address, and phone number... I'm not sure if I have the energy to follow through. Advice? Oh, and Oni, you really ought to change the visible email address with your full name on your DeviantArt. Kinda silly.

In other, less creepy news..

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P

 

[SirOni]

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Eh, most people know my name anyway.

 

[TheWeirdOne]

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Omg I want to visit Oni and be his bestest friend!

Then he kills me for being annoying as shit!

 

[SirOni]

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If I haven't killed most of my friends already for annoying me on times I doubt you'd end up in the corpse pile

 

[Ranger Princess]

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I loved this article. I don't think I'll ever be surprised by political ads anymore. The best part was that the politicians of each party tried to address the orgasm in a serious tone like...I don't really think voting, even for me would lead to an orgasm. Oh my gosh it just sounds so ridiculous! If I was their PR person, they would not even mention orgasms. It's so funny though.

On another note, I loved this article until I got to the end and read this, "An anti-racism group, SOS Racismo, says it has complained to the public prosecutor about a video game by the Popular Party, in which Alicia Sanchez-Camacho takes on the guise of film and video game heroine Lara Croft to fight illegal immigrants and pro-independence Catalans." WTF Spain :\