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Science > Philosophy |
| User: |
"Edgar Svendsen" |
| Date: |
16 Aug 2005 12:49:56 PM |
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Identifying terrorists |
An AP news article today said that babies whose name matched names on the
"no fly" list were refused permission to board until the parents procured
passports, birth certificates etc to establish their identity.
This is insane! If the security personnel are unable to determine that an
11 month infant is not a terrorist by simple observation, how does a piece
of paper clarify the situation? What is it about security personnel that
prevents them from reasoning about the baby's likelihood of being a
terrorist when they see it, but enables them to clearly see that a baby who
is accompanied by a birth certificate is perfectly safe to allow on the
airplane? Note that it is the baby that is the issue, not the parents, they
would have let the parents board.
Ed
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| User: "Publius" |
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| Title: Re: Identifying terrorists |
16 Aug 2005 01:34:35 PM |
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"Edgar Svendsen" <solon013@earthlink.net> wrote in
news:8HpMe.8412$ns.5811@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:
What is it about
security personnel that prevents them from reasoning about the baby's
likelihood of being a terrorist when they see it, but enables them to
clearly see that a baby who is accompanied by a birth certificate is
perfectly safe to allow on the airplane?
They are bureaucrats. They are not paid to think; they are paid to follow
procedure.
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| User: "oh-um-ohm!" |
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| Title: Re: Identifying terrorists |
16 Aug 2005 01:02:45 PM |
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It seems that the person that exists as the construct of the state, our
identity, is held with greater regard by the state than our physical
being; and this state identity is also much more easily managed.
Edgar Svendsen wrote:
An AP news article today said that babies whose name matched names on the
"no fly" list were refused permission to board until the parents procured
passports, birth certificates etc to establish their identity.
This is insane! If the security personnel are unable to determine that an
11 month infant is not a terrorist by simple observation, how does a piece
of paper clarify the situation? What is it about security personnel that
prevents them from reasoning about the baby's likelihood of being a
terrorist when they see it, but enables them to clearly see that a baby who
is accompanied by a birth certificate is perfectly safe to allow on the
airplane? Note that it is the baby that is the issue, not the parents, they
would have let the parents board.
Ed
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