'I don't want to go to Disney World anymore': Parents' fury as TSA agents detain their crying

[Demo_Chris]

59. This is really very simple...

Either you want invasive screening or you don't.

If you do, then this is what you are going to get. They cannot issue a free pass to anyone. Children and the elderly and the handicapped are going to be targetted for additional screening. The alternative is a some form of non-invasive screening where officers watch from a distance and look for signs of stress and what not -- and in an airport that's a tough task. If you go that alternate route it is possible that there will be more terrorist attacks.

Possible.

We have to decide as a nation what we want. We have to decide if we want more government "protecting" us or less. We have to decide if we want airport and bus station and city street pat downs; we have to decide if we want drones sitting over our homes and peeking in our windows; we have to decide if we want the government reading our emails and forum posts and databasing every website and image we view. And it wont stop there. It never stops there.

We have to decide if we are a nation of fucking cowards or a nation that accepts the occassional tragedy or assault as one of the prices we pay for freedom. Until then this is all just faux-outrage and hypocrisy. You're angry because the meanies at the TSA did the job you demanded that they do, and it's as silly as weeping over the lawn clippings after the gardener finishes mowing the grass. So either cowboy the hell up and demand and end to ALL of it, or accept that this is just one more thing you will tolerate in the name of "safety."

Blunt, but there it is.