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RegNatarajan.com > Posts > Plane Bombs and the Slavery of the Masses
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30/12/2009Here are some interesting facts.
- Some Nigerian tried to blow up a plane and failed. Nobody got killed. Actually, nobody even got hurt.
- Putatively because of the above point, the entire US airport system is now in effective lock down with "enhanced security", which is a euphemism for people being patted down and interrogated on their way to every flight.
- The Dutch and Nigerians are now doing body-scans on anyone travelling to the US.
- People all over the world are getting used to being body-searched. It's becoming part of normal life if you venture outside your own neighbourhood, which most people don't. When I was growing up, the idea of being searched was nothing short of shocking.
- On the weekend of the flight, several hundred people were killed in the US by drunk drivers. No enhanced security for drivers is planned.
- Four people a year die in the US by electrocution from dropping hair dryers into the water. This is more than have been killed by terrorism since 9/11, and that terrorist probably lives in Texas. Again, no emergency security measures are currently planned for hair dryers.
- I listened to a US talk radio show while driving the other day, and heard the announcer describe the incident as chilling to the bone. I wonder what he'd call it if someone had gotten hurt.
- Nobody seems to notice how absurd it all is. Nobody cares that nobody got hurt. Nobody cares that, even if the guy had succeeded, fewer people would've been killed than drunk drivers killed that weekend. People buy in to the drama and they glory in their chains. The abandonment of a few more personal freedoms is clearly justified. "Whatever it takes to be safe!" they say smiling, as they spread their arms and legs to be patted down.
- In 1947, Reichsmarschall Herman Goering wrote, "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
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