Sorry. You just made it seem like you moved through it all like it was butter and never gave up an ounce of freedom. None of what we have today existed when I was a child. Those freedoms are gone now, never to be experienced by my children. This, and what is sure more to come, is what they will know. The land of the free and the home of the brave is a fairy tale and a joke now. Most Americans can’t even do fireworks in their front yards on Independence Day anymore. “It” does not make me feel patriotic at all. Freedom is not free, and it is certainly NOT synonomous with “safety”. Safety has never conquered anything. Those “few seconds” that you speak of, that we all acquiese to, last an eternity. I’d rather be a free American allowed to travel freely within my own country and have a government with the balls to ensure that it is so. My countrymen did not bring down the twin towers - so profile the living crap out of anyone who might have ever had anything whatsoever to do with it, then, and now. I don’t care who it offends - it’s worth those precious “few seconds” to me. Do you think Bush, et. al., gives up a “few seconds”? Who lost freedom at the hand of modern politics? You, me, and every other American.
>>Sorry. You just made it seem like you moved through it all like it was butter and never gave up an ounce of freedom. None of what we have today existed when I was a child. Those freedoms are gone now, never to be experienced by my children. This, and what is sure more to come, is what they will know. The land of the free and the home of the brave is a fairy tale and a joke now. Most Americans can’t even do fireworks in their front yards on Independence Day anymore. “It” does not make me feel patriotic at all. Freedom is not free, and it is certainly NOT synonomous with “safety”. Safety has never conquered anything. Those “few seconds” that you speak of, that we all acquiese to, last an eternity. I’d rather be a free American allowed to travel freely within my own country and have a government with the balls to ensure that it is so. My countrymen did not bring down the twin towers - so profile the living crap out of anyone who might have ever had anything whatsoever to do with it, then, and now. I don’t care who it offends - it’s worth those precious “few seconds” to me. Do you think Bush, et. al., gives up a “few seconds”? Who lost freedom at the hand of modern politics? You, me, and every other American.<<
So there were no checkpoints before 9/11? No pat-downs? You could just walk into airports free and clear?
Where the hell did you live? Not the USA! There have been airport checks for 30+ years!
You are just drawing an arbitrary line — which should have been drawn 40 years ago if it is to be drawn at all.
And I assure you those few seconds last — a few seconds.
I can speak, I can move (which you can’t), I can voice my thoughts (which I have, even in the TSA line), I can think — if I wish to I can publish those thoughts — WHILE IN LINE.
Flying isn’t a right. Why do so many FReepers think everything they want to do is a “right?”
Can you post cuss words on FR? Try it and test your “rights” on a private forum.
Sometimes I think I am on DU...