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Originally Posted by adios
Interesting, what do think the motives are then? Haven't read every post in this thread so I concede you may have answered my question in another post.
Its sort of the $64k question for me irt all of this
There are several possible ones-- some more provocative than others but all probably pretty outlandish for the mainstream crowd....
1) Just a general furtherance of the police state— which begs the question 'why?'. Why go to such efforts to control and intimidate people?
2) Seeing as the powers-that-be have had zero qualms about destroying the economy by moving industry offshore and now by inflating the dollar away, perhaps the next step is to start restricting travel?
3) Perhaps they want to get people so upset that they riot, and then they can really bring out the draconian measures?
4) Maybe the goal is to cause the airlines so much hardship due to people not wanting to fly that they are forced to nationalize them?
5) There is always the simple greed factor too regarding the amount of money going into these machines— although I doubt this would be a primary factor.
I definitely don't think the motives have anything to do with increasing safety.
And I also think that when the decision to implement these enhanced pat-downs was made, that they knew that there was going to be some backlash/horror stories that generate media attention. Which means they're prepared to accept that. We'll all see what happens of course...