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Re: Tanks at the Super Bowl
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 01:43:46 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kirby Warden writes:
> Now for real: I guess it is getting a bit out of hand. Sure, it is
> protection; but isn't the thin line between protection and over-protection
> being crossed? What's next, military at the Oscar's Night? USS Nimitz
> patrolling the beaches in the summer (OK, its planes...)? Choppers guarding
> the ski-jump at SLC Olympic Games?
Actually, the same people in charge of security at the Super Bowl are headed
to the Olympics after the game.
> My oppinion is that this situation cannot last forever. The cost of
> maintaining such measures full time is prohibitive on the long run, and
> eventually the pressure of the public will be directed towards a progressive
> return to the security standards of the past (with some changes, of course;
> I don't see anyone wishing for the old curbside check-in to return, at least
> having thought about it deeply).
You're assuming, of course that are government is not actually in a
perpetual State of Emergency right? Because it could actually find a means
to fund these ultra security operations indefinately if it chose to do so,
under a State of Emergency, that is.
> A year or so of this stuff, and eventually it will fade away. At least
> visibly, and that is not too bad as a start (I guess).
That's the idea that we're being sold, let's hope it pans out for The People!
> Enjoy the Superbowl GAME (I dunno the time for it, hope it has not ended yet)!
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> Pedro
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| (...) [snip] (...) I don't think so. Simply, the money has to come from somewhere and The People aren't going to be willing to pump 75% of their produce into such security measures. In the worst-case scenario that you seem to be imagining, the (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) What, you never went see a football match between England and Germany? The population living near the stadium would be pleased to have the tanks... ;-) Now for real: I guess it is getting a bit out of hand. Sure, it is protection; but isn't (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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