Strip Searches and Travel Woes

It's been a long time since I've talked about something other than me so let's focus on life beyond Ang shall we? I'll get back to me later. So the big news of course is national security and our ongoing fight against terrorism. I find myself torn with the proposal of the use of full body scanners at the airports. On one hand I think it is necessary since it will aid in reducing the types of foreign objects that should not be aboard domestic and international flights. However, I am also opposed to giving up yet another civil liberty under the guise that it will "protect" all of us. I believe that higher level governmental officials failed to do their jobs properly and in doing so we the average citizen continue to get a reduction in our basic rights because of their oversights! In my opinion, they continue to get paid top dollar while we continue to get stripped little by little of our dignity at the airports. What's next? Do we show up naked and wait for cavity searches while a dog sniffs at our two inch carry on bag that contains two ounces of lotion?

It's been almost ten years since the September 11th attack and while national security has gotten better, there are so many areas where it should be better already and it isn't. The lockdown at Newark airport is a perfect example of errors in judgement both by security as well as an overzealous man waiting for a female passenger. While many will only focus on the security guard who left his post...which was indeed wrong...others fail to see that the man who walked the wrong way deliberately did so after being told once before that he could not go that way. The man, probably not use to being told no as so many men aren't use to, did what he wanted to do and created so many problems for thousands of other passengers. How selfish of him. I hope they find him and are able to fine him for something! It goes to show you how some folks simply don't take safety and security seriously and don't care about other people at all. Again, how selfish some are in this world.

In watching President Obama's press conferences over the last two weeks, I commend him on taking responsibility for everybody elses oversights...even though alot of these errors are carryovers from the previous administrations. Being in charge of anything is alot of responsibility and I'm not just referring to the Presidency but with anything in life. Just being in charge of what's personally going on in ones life is a big responsibility. Am I making the right decision? Who and how is this going to affect me? Others? What is the short and long term impact of this decision? All of my decisions? Can I live with what might be perceived as an error? I'm sure President Obama asks these questions every day! As we all do!

As for travelling....As crazy as it may seem...I'm looking forward to getting on a plane this year to travel someplace...anyplace far and amazing! Just to talk about me for a moment, I have very little money, current employment barely pays enough to cover my rent let alone food and other basic essentials but I enjoy the work, and for the most part I hear the sound of my own voice the majority of the time and talk to myself. Yet...I am looking forward to traveling someplace very far this year. I wasn't able to do so in 2009 but plan on doing so this year. Let's see how the year shapes up. I better get going. Have some light cleaning to do. More perhaps later.