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Originally Posted by MetaMan
It's called a "multi cultural society" in Canada and the USA. everything you say about Israel goes right out the door. It is not hard to play "who's the jew and who's not".
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You have a point. But the fact still remains that Jews and Palestinians are basically physically the same people. Put a Palestinian in Jewish garb and you can't tell the difference.
Those Israeli security guys live every day with Palestinians blowing themselves up. It isn't like it is here...a few insane Arabs do something crazy and we call it "terrorism"...over there it's a fact of life.
I can also tell you that when I travel to Europe...they don't do this kind of nonsense either. It's not as streamlined or efficient as Israel's security...but it's a helluva lot better than the bullshit we are going through at airports.
In my humble opinion, IF a crazy person wants to blow up a plane they will. None of this is going to stop them.
Further...when is the last time a U.S. plane was blown up? The Lockerbie Scotland plane back in the 1980's is the last one I can recall. And they didn't start groping passengers and set up all this security bullshit after that happened.
The difference this time is we had a knee jerk reaction as a nation because we have cable news showing us those towers coming down. It was horrific.
And ever since that happened, the govt. has been using that fear to take away our rights and our freedoms.
It was a handful of nutjobs. NOTHING ever stops a handful of crazy people or worse...a single crazy person.
This country needs high speed rail systems and eliminate the airlines for travel within the country. I'm sensing a real backlash is about to occur that is going to cripple the airline industry right at a time when the economy is so bad anyway.