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>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:17:23 -0700
> "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> extropians@extropy.org RE: TERRORISM: looking for solutionsReply-To: extropians@extropy.org
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>> "Holden, Steve" <Steve.Holden@intel.com> "'extropians@extropy.org'" <extropians@extropy.org> RE: TERRORISM: looking for solutionsDate: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:27:03 -0700
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>>>flying under control, just doesn't sound healthy, either. I
>>>would be more in favor of installing those low-power x-rays
>>>that can distally body-search people, perhaps programmed with
>>>software that would recognize knifelike and gunlike shapes,
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>>There are numerous options in terms of non-lethal weapons: handheld lasers
>>that blind, tasers, etc.. Not to mention handgun rounds like shotshell, or
>>thin copper walls that have very minimal penetration.
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>>To a free society, those options are preferred to what amounts to
>>strip-searching people who have done nothing wrong. Your solution puts the
>>onus on everyone. My solution focuses on the perpetrators.
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>I prefer to filter the perpetrators out BEFORE they have a shot at perpetration, which, whather it succeeds or fails, wreaks unacceptable havoc upon innocent citizens.
>All the NRA types wanna respond to every damned thing with bang-bang; too many Hollywood movies, baking too many brains with contrived fantasy solutions. Schwarzennegger, Stallone and Willis are just actors, and would most likely have cried, retched and shit their pants if they had been on one of those flights. There wwere perhaps half a dozen perps per plane; if they're gonna die for Allah anyway, they're MORE than willing to jump on your grenade dude while the other ones gut him and swing the entrails at the rest of the crew.
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And something else I forgot; the only reasons I can think of for people to fear low-power x-ray searches are if they are embarrased at the dimunitive size or odd configuration of some of their body parts, or if they are muling some treasured contrababd, for themselves or others. Well, LIVES are at stake here; if'nyer ashamed at the size of yer pep-pee- or ta-ta's, then employ the extropian alternative of augmentation, and ifnyer problem is related to contraband transportation, then use your big brains to figure out alternative modes of transport, while working to change the laws. The lives of innocent citizens are too heinous a price to pay to salve your egos or facilitate your substance use preference legality circumventions.
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