by Lawrence Sanchez

Created on: November 24, 2010   Last Updated: November 26, 2010

A look at privacy concerns over new TSA pat-down procedures is a topic on many peoples lips these day's. From listening to the radio it would seem that most people are up in arm's against the current pat down procedure's used by the TSA. Those same people fail to realize that they could be the next victim of a bomb that explodes on a plane where the pat search procedure's were not performed or hindered in any way. The public cries for safety but does not want to comply with simple methods of maintaining that safety. In a world where there is so much hate toward the United States as there is today you can not have both.

The United States compared to many other countries has an extremely lax-ed travel security system. The citizens of this country complain and protest when children or older people are pat searched. Most of us can remember in Vietnam when children carrying bombs blew up our soldiers. The only mistake these soldiers made was wanting to feed these poor kids or help them. We in the United States have a lot more respect for the life of a child then in many other countries . In many other countries life is cheap and death is a daily event that does not impact them as it does us. In Iraq and Afghanistan children are used to blow stuff up often and so are the elderly or the handicapped. Just imagine if we allowed these specific groups to go unchecked at the airports, don't you think that our enemies would start planning to put these types of individuals on our planes and give us another wake up call.

That infamous day, 9-1-1 should not be forgotten. We the people of this country all wept that day and cried for vengeance and for protection. Have we forgotten so soon ? Can we remember how easy it was for them to hurt and kill so many of us? When you listen to the complaints of so many about being touched for their own safety, then you can truly say yes we forgot all the souls that met their maker on 911. The people of the United States need to look past this simple pat down search and smell the coffee. It is time to wake up, the world has a lot of people living in it who want us to hurt and be scared to leave our houses. The average person should be thanking the government for making the attempt to try and keep us safe. People living in the USA must not understand or are naive to think that with all the security we have or could introduce that if a terrorist really wants to hurt us they can't.The truth is they will and can .They will find a way through our security systems and eventually hurt or God forbid kill more of us again. Why make it easier by conquering ourselves through protesting the devices of our safety. Freedom is precious, but our lives are more precious.

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