Privacy vs. Security

In today's society, it seems that we must sacrifice more freedom just to feel safe. With all the checkpoints to travel to the metal detectors in schools, the public movements is under more supervision than ever before in history. We all have heard the airport horror stories about undressing little old women to the cameras at intersection lights that send you tickets after the fact. When will all this stop? What is next a GPS locator implanted at birth? In addition, does all this added security really going to stop the next nut job, from crashing a plane into a nuclear power plant. The answer is simple. No! Anything can be a weapon. From the car that you drive to your grandmother's walker, if someone wants to kill somebody there is always a way. All that this added security does is pry into your privacy and make money one fear at a time. Now the car insurance companies are lobbying to have a black box installed in every car to monitor your driving habits. Imagine how this will affect your premiums. Police want cameras on every street corner to fight crime and credit card companies want fingerprint identification or a RF chip to protect you from identity theft. Soon we will not have one private moment at work or at home. All this comes from fear. We are taught to be scared of everything even one another. The idiot box plays into these fears with color-coded treat levels to global climate change. Bottom line is, we are all going to die this is the great equalizer. We cannot avoid this, and to spend what little time we have on this earth living in fear is not the way I wish to live.