Big Brother really is watching you:

It kind of looks like the one in Rome to me.

It is from the European Press Photo Agency.

Isn't it scary?

It's not like there were troops in the streets or anything. It felt safer than having some guy making $7/hr provide my security.

Hell, when I flew to London (after xmas 2003), we were held up in Newark for six hours, because the British gov't didn't trust the American security measures. So we actually had to wait for the British to search us again. They were much more thorough, but no one got cavity searches or anything.

Nothing makes you feel safer about American security than having the country you're going to basically say, "your guys suck at security checks, so before you come to our country, we're going to have our security check you." :sarcasm:

Welcome to 'democracy'. :eyes:

with armoured vehicles outside the terminals as well.

I see plenty of armed military thugs on patrol in US airports, too.

Most people in the military are actually very good Americans doing a necessary job.

Secondly, the only fear I have of our military is the chimp that's running it. I'd trust a soldier doing security over a barely trained bag checker making $7/hr.

but it's what I think, and you won't convince me otherwise.


Secondly, I don't want my life entrusted to anyone, be they a TSA bag checker, or a some dude with an automatic weapon.

I prefer freedom to fasism, but that's just me. :-)

I know some good liberals in the military. They are not thugs, just some regular people who got caught up in Bush's war on Terra.

be they liberal or conservative, even if they are claiming to want to 'protect' me.

In the words of Charles Bukowski:

"It's not that I hate cops, I just feel better when they're not around."

I've always related to that statement.

Here's another:
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." Albert Einstein

Sure, there are exceptions to any rule. Sure, there are some decent folk in the military that got caught up. That doesn't make me feel any better, though, because at the end of the day, they're the ones standing over me with a weapon, and that's just not livin' free, IMO.

Sorry if I disparaged anyone you know.

it is uncommon to NOT see some people in military uniforms (or at least that style) carrying machine or submachine guns....this is nothing new.

sP

I trust the foreign airports i travel through - it is only the idiotic domestic TSA morans manning the security checkpoints that make me nervous. They are undertrained, undereducated and underpaid - good ol' USA - you get what you pay for people

Give me an airport full of professional security people (soldiers) anyday

for the one's who like living in a police state, and those who don't. :shrug:

and North Korea.

They have more freedom than us, socialized medicine, and an amazing culture. If you think that's a police state, then maybe you should take a trip to China.

just sayin...

Flew into Greece in the late 80's. I didn't know whether to feel safe or scared.