Geek woman news story of possible interest...

[keith]

On Sun, 2007-23-09 at 15:26 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> Matt Middleton wrote: 
> 
> > In this day and age, especially with the paranoia about people trying  
> > to do horrible things with airplanes,
> 
> What people doing what horrible things on what planes? I pay quite a bit of
> attention to the news, and the last time there was anything 'horrible' was over

That may be in response to the amount of security?

> six years ago, though the responses to that event by the West have certainly
> been horrifying for a lot of people.
> 
> Unfortunately, what we have here is a great example of the paranoid propaganda
> from the far right sneaking its way into the consciousness of otherwise
> intelligent people.

...intelligent people probably want to get off their flight at the other
end safely.
> 
> Who is it on here who has the sig about 'those who sacrifice liberty for
> security'? I like that one.

You need an analogy you can relate to my friend. Before 911,
airport_security.exe ran the show. It's since been upgraded to
airport_security.src... and you're complaining? :)

Cheers *_clink_*
Keith

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