Word: securityã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...this nervous post-Sept. 11 America, the word “security?? has become a Harry Potter-style cloak of invisibility, rendering unnoticeable all sorts of measures that would previously have roused our ire. We allow our bags to be searched and our IDs to be checked because we believe in makes us safer, because questioning such measures makes us look suspicious and calls our loyalty into question. Businesses are counting on our silent compliance because we all fear that others will think we have something to hide if we protest. We have become a nation of citizens...
...irony of all these alleged “security?? measures is that in the areas where increased security is needed, airports and the mail, there have been security breaches. Despite much-touted mail disinfection, a 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of anthrax in late November; despite increased security since Sept. 11, airports have allowed people with sharp implements and potential weapons board airplanes. At O’Hare Airport in Chicago, passengers managed to bring cleavers, stun guns and tear gas past security checkpoints; at Logan, a checkpoint was left unmanned while an employee took a break...
...time when Americans need to feel confidence in our government, Bush’s action raises unnecessary doubts in the minds of the public as to his motives. White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer cited “national security?? as the primary goal of the order, but the Bush administration had been seeking to slow down or restrict the release of government documents even prior to Sept. 11, particularly those pertaining to the Reagan years...
...community assembled to promote a common good. For hundreds of years, we’ve built our societies on the assumption that human beings are so motivated by fear that they would constrain their liberties (or give up them up altogether) in order to enjoy the benefits of collective security??that even “a race of devils” could be manageably governed by the right system of contracts and incentives...
Nonetheless, security consultants like Taylor recommend even more security??like replacing campus garbage cans with so-called “bomb mitigation containers,” which are specially designed to contain and control a blast...