Blarg's Beefs

This is possibly the worst idea I have yet heard to come out of all of the security hysteria that the Bush administration is instigating. Apparently "suspicious people" can be tagged with RFID devices so that security personnel can monitor them everywhere they walk in an airline terminal. This is supposed to help make sure they don't go into "restricted" areas. How stupid is this idea?! How about simply securing restricted areas so that "suspicious people" can't get in there in the first place? And how are these "suspicious people" supposed to get these RFID devices attached to them? How are they going to be forced to keep these devices on at all times?

This has so many civil liberties violations all over it that I can't believe anyone is actually wasting time building such a system. Sell it to some fascist state that doesn't believe in freedom for its citizens, but keep it out of the US please. Otherwise we will become one of these fascist states that we claim we abhor.

Current headlines at cnn.com:

The shooter of the Amish schoolgirls apparently claims to have molested young family members twenty years ago, so in order to "avenge" those he had molested, he decided to go molest more innocent young girls, then shoot them and kill himself. At least he didn't molest them. Yup, that's one way to atone for your sins, just commit more.

Bush says we can't trust them Democrats to run Congress because they're weak on national security. Since he's done such a bang-up job, of course.

Then this whole Foley thing has turned into a finger-pointing exercise.

Finally, Condoleeza Rice says we shouldn't ignore the terror alerts that we have inflicted on ourselves because of our stupid policies in the Middle East.

Is it just me, or is everyone making headlines today a complete F*CKING MORON!