Comments on: 2010: A Bad Year to Fly? http://rbriskmanager.com/2010/01/08/2010-a-bad-year-to-fly/ Insurance Blog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:54:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Graham Robinson http://rbriskmanager.com/2010/01/08/2010-a-bad-year-to-fly/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Graham Robinson Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:46:26 +0000 http://rbriskmanager.com/2010/01/08/2010-a-bad-year-to-fly/#comment-9 You mentioned the "unwarranted invasions of privacy" and the Dec 25 underwear bomber. I have decided my line in the sand is to not send myself, wife or kids through a naked body scanner. These machines can see right down to your pimples and hairs in high resolution. I don’t like posting articles like the one below but the message needs to get out that we the people will no longer put up with the unwarranted invasion of our privacy. *** CAUTION Images in link shows exact replicas of camera photos *** http://www.infowars.com/inverted-body-scanner-image-shows-naked-body-in-full-living-color/ *** CAUTION Images in link shows exact replicas of camera photos *** It is also important to note that these new security measures would not have stopped the Dec 25 high-jacking as he was waved through customs by someone with a very high security clearance and then the young man was allowed to board the plane without a passport. The underwear bomber was a known terrorist and on the terror watch list (not to mention his own father, a high ranking business man, notified the US government of his sons involvement in terrorists groups) There is very little mention of this second man who boarded the plane, video tapped the whole event, was identified by bomb sniffing dogs and then disappeared. This latest terrorist scam appears to be more about taking away our liberties than protecting us from terrorists. If this was a real terrorist he would have hit a soft target like a mall or school. Governments know that in real terrorist attacks you downplay the event and don’t report on it. It is only in sensationalism that the terrorist gets what he wants…terror. If know one knows about you there is no terrorism. I would be interested in more articles on the risk of exchanging our freedoms for temporary safety. I would agree with Benjamin Franklin who said “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Graham You mentioned the “unwarranted invasions of privacy” and the Dec 25 underwear bomber. I have decided my line in the sand is to not send myself, wife or kids through a naked body scanner. These machines can see right down to your pimples and hairs in high resolution.

I don’t like posting articles like the one below but the message needs to get out that we the people will no longer put up with the unwarranted invasion of our privacy.

*** CAUTION Images in link shows exact replicas of camera photos ***
http://www.infowars.com/inverted-body-scanner-image-shows-naked-body-in-full-living-color/
*** CAUTION Images in link shows exact replicas of camera photos ***

It is also important to note that these new security measures would not have stopped the Dec 25 high-jacking as he was waved through customs by someone with a very high security clearance and then the young man was allowed to board the plane without a passport. The underwear bomber was a known terrorist and on the terror watch list (not to mention his own father, a high ranking business man, notified the US government of his sons involvement in terrorists groups) There is very little mention of this second man who boarded the plane, video tapped the whole event, was identified by bomb sniffing dogs and then disappeared. This latest terrorist scam appears to be more about taking away our liberties than protecting us from terrorists. If this was a real terrorist he would have hit a soft target like a mall or school. Governments know that in real terrorist attacks you downplay the event and don’t report on it. It is only in sensationalism that the terrorist gets what he wants…terror. If know one knows about you there is no terrorism.

I would be interested in more articles on the risk of exchanging our freedoms for temporary safety. I would agree with Benjamin Franklin who said “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Graham

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