All over the United States, new high-tech full body scanners are being installed at airports, and we are told that this is for our own good. Apparently it is in the interest of national security that we all be subjected to what amounts to "virtual strip searches" before we get on an airplane. But are these full body scanners actually going to make us safer? Are they actually needed for our personal security? Or are they just dehumanizing us and blasting us with needless amounts of dangerous radiation? Well, the debate continues to rage on but the Transportation Security Administration continues to install them anyway. At this point the TSA has spent more than $80 million for about 500 full body scanners. 133 have already been installed at U.S. airports, and the TSA plans to install about 1,000 more by the end of 2011.
But the debate about these full body scanners continues to grow. In fact, some travelers are getting downright angry. Just consider the following quote from a recent (Read More....)
If it wasn't bad enough that our politicians and news media constantly bombard us with messages that we need to give up all of our liberty and freedom so that we can be safe, now toy manufacturers are producing toys that prepare our children for life in the futuristic Big Brother technocracy that our society is quickly becoming. Playmobil has released a new toy set called the "
which features menacing security guards dressed in black (looking quite fascist by the way), a metal detector and a luggage screening machine. Is it really necessary to teach our kids to be subservient to the brutal police state that we have constructed at such an early age?