This was a (reactive) response (which they wouldn’t publish) to an article in the New York Times’ Lede Blog about the possible pornographic nature of new x-ray machine; the article spun off into other issues of security (see here):
Why should travel be safe? If you are afraid to die, don’t fly. And if all this nonsense continues, don’t fly if you don’t want them to use their x-ray glasses on you. Think: 100 years ago, there were no passports as we know them today (link). And we think we’re evolving as a species? We’re rigid with fear, I mourn the loss of our freedom and our willingness to take risks. Why should it be safe to fly? Ride the high seas, risk the storms, the pirates. There are killers on the road. There always will be. Watch the news: the cops are a joke. The politicians, too. Me, too. No one can stop these acts with technology. You can’t obliterate “terrorists” any more than you can obliterate the air. What a reactive rant you think? These “unbalanced” comments or the “authorities’.” We are all responsible for this atmosphere. All a big scam. There is no authority except your heart. When it stops living we’re finished. This life isn’t about being made safe by government agencies. We choose to fly, no matter how much you think you have to. Play into the hands of the fear mongers on all sides. If you think you need protection, protect yourself. Don’t run to some agency to do it for you. ANd if you can’t “protect” yourself, live in hole. Down with fear perpetrated on humanity by the “good” and the “bad.” They’re playing the same game. Why not pioneer for a private air system unregulated by government agencies. To live is to take your life into your hands. And what about the health risks of these stupid machines? Like CAT scans, they will be revealed in the future to radiate those who pass through their eyes. Enough with this morbid sentimentality, with clutching our blanky of life and there-by not living.
