The way to think about this issue is to put yourself in the shoes of the prisoner.
Category: politics
Backscatter X-Ray Technology
According to this article over at Bruce Schneier’s blog, there’s a new X-Ray system that can literally “see” through clothes (in the way that many of us imagined those old “x-ray glasses” advertised on the back of cereal boxes would work). And they’re planning on using it to scan people.
Let’s Deport All The America Haters!
People sometimes get so fired up about these sorts of things that they forget to think rationally. The old “you’re wrong because you disagree with me!” syndrome has been popping up a lot more these days. I’m just glad that some people can see through the anger to the broken logic underneath.
Dumb Dumb Dumb
I remember, just after the Madrid train bombing, how people (well, politicians) were talking about turning off cell phone networks during a terrorist attack. I also remember thinking about how stupid that would be.
School Controls Speech
“It’s true that under the Court’s Establishment Clause caselaw the government generally may not itself engage in religious speech, nor may it give preferential treatment to religious speech. But this ban on government preferences for religious speech doesn’t require or authorize discrimination against private religious speech. Such discrimination is itself unconstitutional; it violates the Free Speech Clause, and in my view the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause as well (though that’s less clear than the Free Speech Clause violation).”