Comments on: Dignity is latest casualty of War on Terror

By: Dale

Dale — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:27:16 +0000

The thing is that airports are, and have for my life time, always been a special case… Whereby people are openly nonchalent enough to allow themselves into a different mindset, we are expected to answer personal questions ‘did you pack this bag’. If you like we enter into a ‘confessionary complex’ and begin to self-police which in itself is dangerous as this leads to a public attitude which not invites the erosion of liberties within the airport as a ‘special’ case, with very little being done to filter dangerous people, the focus lying entirely on objects… Which is odd, it ensures security within the flight (arguably important), but does nothing to detect the threat the person may pose in the open streets of their destination. Scanners of body are undoubtedly going too far given the lack of effectiveness one can see them having. Yes, many of us are happy to trade some of our liberties for safety… But the further these steps go (particularly without any real effect) make myself, and I’m sure many of you, wary of how far the state is willing to intrude on the pretence of protection of the citizen…

By: Jacqui Smith MP

Jacqui Smith MP — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:44:33 +0000

Charlotte

I made sure the airport illegal immigrants, I mean the security guards, could look at the ladies’s breast implants – anything to keep the DVD expenses down, I know about this, I was fed up returning home to a spunked out sofa.

Jacqui

By: FaustiesBlog

FaustiesBlog — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:29:19 +0000

Not just to an airport near you, but to your football stadium, cinema - hell, anywhere large numbers of people gather. Like town centres, for instance.

By: angela

angela — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:47:17 +0000

http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/george-o-and-hague-fact-find-in-afghanistan/

George Osborne and William Hague have just been on a fact finding mission to Kabul. They vow that the Tories will never betray our armies like Gordon Brown has done. They have a strategy and a clear way forward.

By: Mr Rob

Mr Rob — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:41:24 +0000

@Jock

If the title of that link is true, then it should be quite easy to spot the terrorists while they stand, or rather shuffle and hop about, in the long airport queues, without the need for any of this planned voyeurism.

By: Jock

Jock — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:14:03 +0000

I see that even if it wasn’t Chris Huhne to begin with it is now:

http://www.libdemvoice.org/liblink-chris-huhne-terrorists-dont-stand-still-and-neither-can-we-17454.html

By: angela

angela — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:06:14 +0000

For me, absolutely the worst thing that Gordon Brown has done is betray our armies. The film “The Hurt Lcoker” powerfully conveys the numbing tension and danger endured every single day by an elite squad of bomb disposal experts.

http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/the-hurt-locker/

If you want a deeper understanding of what our troops go through, you must see this film, it is the war film of the decade, so tense that at times I was nearly sick. David Cameron is from a military family, he would never have betrayed our troops like the Labour Party have done.

By: Dan Hill

Dan Hill — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:43:12 +0000

If we examine the road it’s going down:
Luggage -> Footwear -> Underwear…

Next stop

Cavities -> Chemical Conduits

Blood tests and brain scans at the airport. We’ll accept like normality, that it’s never been any other way, if we keep going like this.
Of course we may run out of oil to run the plays by this stage but that’s another issue.

By: Jock

Jock — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:52:33 +0000

Yeah, by the way, can you give a reference for this Huhne statement? I don’t doubt it is the stated “party line” but from what I can see it is attributable to Norman Baker rather than Chris Huhne. At least the press release on the party site seems to say so.

By: Tim Carpenter LPUK

Tim Carpenter LPUK — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:05:50 +0000

In regards Chris Huhne and liberty, maybe he should go through the scanner and afterwards someone print it off and mark out his arse and his elbow so he can study it for as long as needed so he might tell the difference and spare us.