{"id":91,"date":"2004-04-19T00:28:04","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T15:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/19\/please-surrender-any-dangerous-items-and-last-remaining-shred-of-privacy\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T23:49:32","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:49:32","slug":"please-surrender-any-dangerous-items-and-last-remaining-shred-of-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/19\/please-surrender-any-dangerous-items-and-last-remaining-shred-of-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Please surrender any dangerous items and last remaining shred of privacy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p\/>Like we really needed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/04\/17\/logan_airport_deploy.html\" targe=\"ext_link\">this<\/a> to realize how much of a police state the US of A has become:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Logan Airport deploys snitch-squad<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>[&#8230;]<br \/>\n<br \/>At the security checkpoints, screening supervisors have a score sheet with a list of behaviors on it. If a passenger hits a certain number, a law enforcement officer will be notified to question the person.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TRAVEL\/04\/16\/airline.behavior.ap\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/04\/17\/logan_airport_deploy.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me guess: along with the score sheet comes a set of color samples to match appropriately any evil dark-skin foreigner, I mean &#8220;suspect&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And to the gregarious hordes of concerned citizens braying about how they don&#8217;t mind any further trampling of their personal liberties, as long as it can somehow &#8220;make them feel safe&#8221;, I think it bears repeating once again the ubiquitous quote (attributed to Franklin by most, although it also seems to have been uttered by Jackson in a slightly different version):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like we really needed this to realize how much of a police state the US of A has become: Logan Airport deploys snitch-squad [&#8230;] At the security checkpoints, screening supervisors have a score sheet with a list of behaviors on it. If a passenger hits a certain number, a law enforcement officer will be notified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-fucked-up-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}