In the article Ron Paul: TSA Has Gone too Far, Represenative Ron Paul makes an argument against the TSA's new rule of airports cracking down on their security. Since we are at such high risk, a pat down before being able to get on a plane consists of checking around the breast area in women and checking in the groin area for men and women both. Ron Paul makes the argument that this violates not only our rights, but our liberties. At first, people were being some what passive about the new law, finally people are starting to take a stand and expressing their annoyance with the new security precautions. Paul states that if the government is going to violate our rights and liberties in the airport, there might as well be cameras put into everyone's house to ensure that husbands aren't beating their wives and children as well.
I personally see both sides of the argument. I do agree that such an intense pat down at airport security is extremely uncomfortable, but at the same time, all it takes is one person to bring something on a plane and it's done for. I think they should make some other means of electronic scanner that can do a more thorough scan when you walk through it. It would be more efficient and it would make the people against the new TSA rule happy. With all the technology we have nowadays i don't see why we couldn't make something like this work. I do agree that we need to crack down on security, but within reasonable terms.
A blog titled Ron Paul: TSA Has Gone too Far that was written by Ashley talks about the argument that Representative Ron Paul makes against the TSA's new method of airport security. This new method of airport security consist of a pat down before anyone is allowed to board the plane which includes them checking the breast area of women and the groin area of men.
ReplyDeleteAs I am sure many people agree that this issue is a violation to ones civil rights but the intent of this new method is to reduce the risk of terrorist or anyone with intentions to harm passengers on the plane from boarding the plane. I can also agree with people that say it is uncomfortable and not a pleasurable experience, but to what extent do you value your life? In my opinion its a rather good trade off to sacrifice your civil rights for 5 minutes in order to possibly disrupt an terrorist attack and save your life. What people don't understand is that the airport cannot control the actions and intentions of crazy people out there who always coming up with new schemes to get dangerous devices on a plane, because of this airport security must adjust in order to uphold the safety of the passengers.